Winnipeg

Winnipeg craft, a decade too early. Agassiz brewed in Winnipeg from 1998 until 2002. The brand carried on until 2010, but under contract elsewhere — so the brewery entity ends at 2002 rather than…

Manitoba's first all-female and 2SLGBTQ+ owned and operated brewery, and an absolute breath of fresh air. Crisp traditional lagers balanced against wildly creative sours, anchoring the West Broadway…

Housed in a gorgeous turn-of-the-century brick building, LBJ proved that focusing deeply on a single flagship icon — 1919 Pale Ale — while perfecting European styles could conquer a market.

Torque is woven into Winnipeg's sports and neighbourhood culture. A reliable, unpretentious core lineup that lives in backyard coolers across the province.

Manitoba's craft trailblazer, founded 2006, and the brewery every other one in this province followed. It closed in May 2025 — down from fourteen staff to two, killed by what one industry executive…

A highly aesthetic, moody masterpiece in Winnipeg. They offer an award-winning, premium Belgian experience on the prairies.

English styles on Pembina Highway, at a moment when almost nobody else in the province was brewing them. The Winnipeg Free Press reported the shutdown in March 2024, opening the run of Manitoba…

Barn Hammer is a foundational pillar of Winnipeg's Wall Street industrial craft corridor. Their commitment to nailing classic malt-forward styles — especially Grandpa's Sweater — makes them an…

If you want boundary-pushing adjunct stouts and ultra-fresh hop experiments in the heart of downtown Winnipeg, Devil May Care is the sanctuary. They never play it safe.

Kilter mastered the modern hype-beer aesthetic in Winnipeg. Fruit-forward slushy sours and hop bombs that are visually stunning and surgically balanced.

Low Life is a playground for funk and acidity. If you're tired of clean IPAs and want complex, barrel-aged, mixed-culture sour work, this is the mecca.

OGC nails the holy trinity of a great brewpub: real food from the kitchen, an inviting neighbourhood atmosphere, and award-winning beer that never misses.

Oxus is an unsung hero of clean brewing technique — crisp, traditional European lagers and ambers that satisfy purists and convert macro drinkers. It also hosts other people's brands, making it…

An Exchange District brewpub that helped make downtown Winnipeg somewhere you would go for beer, with a full brewery on site rather than a borrowed tap list. The Winnipeg Free Press reported its…

Sookram's packs enormous personality into a cozy South Osborne footprint. Desert Island IPA and Cult Classic Pilsner are masterclasses in balance and drinkability.

TCB operates on a grand scale without losing its soul. The Kenaston taproom is a sprawling community hub where families, sports fans and beer nerds happily coexist.

Brazen Hall bridges the gap between high-end culinary brewpub dining and serious, large-vessel brewing. The scale of the operation matches the bold flavour profiles.

The original, not the one brewing now. The Winnipeg Free Press traces Fort Garry's roots to 1930, and the Manitoba Historical Society records the original brewery being bought by Molson and…

The rarest story in this archive told backwards. Founded in 1930, sold to Molson in 1960, then shut outright when Molson merged with Carling O'Keefe in 1990 — the ordinary fate of a regional brewery.…

A concept-driven brand leaning hard into retro pulp-villain aesthetics. Their copper and red ales punch above their weight in regional competitions.

The brewpub that broke Manitoba's fifteen-year drought. The Winnipeg Free Press has River City operating in Osborne Village in 1999 — the first local brewpub attempt since Fridays at the Niakwa in…

Manitoba government records have Two Rivers operating as a microbrewer in 2001; the Manitoba Historical Society and the Winnipeg Free Press both record it merging with Fort Garry in 2003, after which…

Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research brewery ID: MB-B0018. Entity type: Brewpub / production brewery. Official brewery page identifies a 10 hL Winnipeg brewery.

Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research brewery ID: MB-B0001. Entity type: Production brewery. Pass 11 correction: Manitoba Historical Society states the modern Fort Garry Brewing Company was…

Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research brewery ID: MB-B0036. Entity type: Multi-location brewery — Manitoba production site. Pass 8 manufacturer/current reconciliation. The company is headquartered…

Two years, and then it became something that lasted forty-three. Benson Brothers opened in 1904; Arnold Riedle bought it in 1906 and renamed it the Edelweiss Brewery, which ran at 49 Stadacona until…

The third operator of the Redwood site. The Manitoba Historical Society records the old Drewry brewery becoming Carling in 1957 and later Carling-O'Keefe, with federal industry records independently…

Edward Drewry bought an idle brewery at Redwood and Main in 1877 and started what became the longest-running brewing site in Manitoba. His name stayed on it through the Drewrys and Western Canada…

Arnold Riedle's brewery, and one of the cleanest closing dates in the archive — established not by a report but by an address. Federal industry material lists Riedle at 49 Stadacona in 1949; the 1950…

Manitoba's first brewpub, at the Niakwa Hotel in 1984 — and then nothing for fifteen years. Winnipeg Free Press correspondence from a Manitoba brewpub developer identifies it, and a separate 2013…

Six years of paperwork and no founding date. Statistics Canada lists Grant's at 49 Stadacona from 1950 through 1956, taking the address directly over from Riedle, who is still there in the 1949…

Where the Redwood site begins. The Seven Oaks House Museum and the Manitoba Historical Society identify Herchmer & Batkin as the brewery standing at Redwood before 1877 — the idle one Edward Drewry…

A useful correction lives in this record. Kiewel was taken over in 1929, and a takeover is where most accounts stop — but federal brewery listings go on reporting The Kiewel Brewing Company Limited…

The last name on a line that began at Colony Creek in 1873, and it finished at 137 Colony Street, where federal brewing-industry lists place it from 1958. University of Winnipeg archival records…

Incorporated in 1903 as the Milwaukee Brewing and Malting Company — a name chosen for what it promised rather than where it was — and renamed Manitoba Brewing and Malting a year later, with the Fort…

Patrick Shea and John McDonagh bought The Winnipeg Brewery in 1887 and ran it under their own names for thirty-nine years — by a distance the steadiest stretch the business had had after five…

The last operator of the Redwood brewery, and the one that switched it off. The 1989 Molson–Carling-O'Keefe merger handed Molson a plant that had been making beer since before 1877, under Herchmer &…

A soda-water family that ended up holding two of Winnipeg's breweries. Archaeological research traces the Pelissiers from soft drinks through Beaver Brewing and Bottling, then the Home Brewery, to a…

The middle of Winnipeg's longest brewing line. Reincorporated out of McDonagh & Shea in 1926, it ran under the Shea name for thirty-one years — including four after Labatt bought a controlling 91%…

Winnipeg's brewing starts here, in the year the city itself was incorporated: Celestin Thomas built on Colony Creek in 1873. What follows is the most-traded brewery in Manitoba's history — Roy &…

A brewery named for temperance, at 358 Flora Street, surviving only a few years in the prohibition era. The Manitoba Historical Society is the source and records little beyond that; the exact opening…

Tiny German-inspired brewery operating from the German Society of Winnipeg basement before Wieland moved to Brazen Hall. Legal entity: Bernhard Wieland Brewing / legal entity UNKNOWN. Production…

A pulp-paperback-inspired brand brewing out of Oxus. No building of its own — which makes it invisible to most directories and no less real for it.

Belgian/European-focused brewery that began brewing at Barn Hammer before establishing its own Exchange District brewery; expanding South Osborne retail/tasting presence in 2026. Legal entity:…

A contract label working across shared Winnipeg vessels — the modern way to start a brewery without a mortgage.

Late-1990s Winnipeg microbrewery whose brands survived the 2003 merger under Fort Garry. Legal entity: Two Rivers Brewing Co. Ltd. / Brasserie Deux Rivieres Cie Ltee.. Production evidence: HISTORICAL…

A defunct Winnipeg label and very little else — no founding year, no closing year, no beers recorded here. It stays on the record because a brewing history that keeps only what it can fully document…

Separate brewery-company/site record preserves the post-Drewrys industrial lineage without pretending Drewrys and Carling were the same legal entity. Legal entity: Carling Breweries (Manitoba) Ltd.;…

Redwood/Drewry became one of Winnipeg's major industrial breweries and later fed into Western Breweries and the Carling site lineage. Legal entity: Herchmer and Batkin Brewery; Redwood Brewery; E. L.…

Manitoba Pass 26 master. Research brewery ID: MB-B0037. Entity type: Institutional / research pilot brewery. Pass 8 institutional-brewery reconciliation. CMBTC's current official facility page…