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Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.

Canadian-owned · made in Canada · based in British Columbia

Founder-run Victoria craft brewery (Blue Buck, Tiger Shark) that malts its own Vancouver Island barley and distills Sanctuary whisky and Cathedral gin on site.

Victoria, BC CA · phillipsbeer.com

95.1

Phillips is a founder-run Victoria craft brewery, maltster, and distillery operating from one site at 2010 Government St. The BC registry shows the trade names are owned by Phillips Brewing Limited Partnership, a Manitoba partnership registered in BC, and no non-Canadian owner or facility surfaced in any source.

Factors

Ownership

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor's history page and the BC Ale Trail directory describe a brewery Matt Phillips founded in 2001 with his own credit cards and still runs, and The CANADA List records it as Canadian-owned. OrgBook BC verifies the structure (Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. and Fermentorium Distilling Company are trade names owned by Phillips Brewing Limited Partnership, home jurisdiction Manitoba, general partner Phillips Brewing GP Ltd.) but not who holds the partnership units; Corporations Canada returned zero results, and the Manitoba Companies Office and BC Registry partner filings were not checked.

Manufacturing

100.0 reported

CA 100%

The vendor states that brewing, malting, and distilling all happen at its Government St site in Victoria, and the whisky site says the spirit is malted, distilled, and aged on site. BC Liquor Stores lists the beer as BC craft, domestic.

People

100.0 reported

CA 100%

Single-site business with head office, brewery, maltworks, distillery, taproom, and beer shop at 2010 Government St, Victoria, per the contact and careers pages. No employee count or LinkedIn check was possible.

Inputs

67.5 inferred

CA 70% · EU 5% · other 5% · US 20%

The vendor says its barley is grown on Vancouver Island and malted in house, bottles come from a Canadian bottle pool, and labels are recycled paper, but Blue Buck is brewed with northwest hops, which mostly come from the US Pacific Northwest, and the whisky is aged in bourbon and red wine casks. The split is an estimate; the share of purchased malt versus in-house malt is not published, and the online merch shop runs on Shopify with the main site on Squarespace.

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