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Canadian Breweries History: Columbia Brewery

The Columbia Brewery can trace its roots back to the Fort Steele Brewery, opened in 1898 with Albert Mutz as the founding Brewmaster. Construction has been completed on this reproduction of the original brewery, which can be found at the entrance to the Fort Steele Heritage Village North of Cranbrook.

In 1901 the Fort Steele Brewery relocated to Fernie. In 1910 it became known as the Fernie/Fort Steele brewery. The Fernie/Fort Steele brewery was one of 4 mountain breweries brewing beer in the Kootenays. Breweries in Cranbrook, Nelson and Trail were also active.

Late in the 1950's these four breweries were combined under one name known as Interior Breweries. In 1957 Interior Breweries decided it wanted to brew its fine quality beers from one location - Creston. Creston had an excellent water source and was central to their geographical market

In 1959-60 Interior Breweries started producing their beers from the newly built brewery in Creston and in 1965 Interior Breweries changes their name to Columbia Brewery.

	Columbia Brewery 1220 Erickson Street, Creston, British Columbia, Canada Tel: (250) 428-9344	To Brewery Page
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