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Tally's take
The character
Brandon went from having essentially no craft scene to being a legitimate destination in about three years, on the back of two breweries doing very different things — one hop-forward and modern, one built inside a taproom made of thousands of bricks reclaimed from local demolition. Out at Neepawa, estate brewing takes the agricultural logic all the way to growing the ingredients.
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The breweries
12 in this scene
Counts here are the length of this list, not an estimate. For why a brewery you know might be missing — closures, shared roofs, contract brands, ownership exclusions — see how we count.