Pacific Western Brewing

At PWB we’re proud to say: “This is us.”

Let’s raise a glass to PWB, BC’s fiercely loyal, doggedly independent home-grown brewery.

You’d be proud too if you’d managed, over several decades, to withstand the constant marketing assaults of the Big Three globally-controlled mega brewers and you’d managed to keep getting better and build a loyal following.

What’s the secret? There isn’t one … just constant dedication to brewing a quality product and selling it at a fair price. Over the past quarter century, that dedication has been embraced by our team of long standing employees. Who else in BC can brew a beer good enough to be exported into the Japanese market … one of the most demanding consumer markets in the world?

We are that good and we do it in the backyard of one of the finest Interior communities in this province. Prince George embodies BC’s entrepreneurial spirit. Like other BC communities, big and small, it has forged its identity and purpose from raw material and human grit. It has been the home of commercial brewing for 60 years.

Yes, let’s raise a glass to PWB…
good beer, brewed right here
by hard working, dedicated British Columbians.

PWB’s reforestation program continues in the Prince George area

Pacific Western Brewing’s “Cariboo Cares” reforestation program has continued this summer with the planting of more than 70,000 Spruce and Lodgepole Pine seedlings about 50 km southwest of Prince George. PWB CEO Taizan Komatsu says: “At PWB we believe in investing where we live and our ongoing reforestation program is a vital component of our […]

Two new Canterbury brews join Dark Mild

Pacific Western Brewing’s original Canterbury Dark Mild will be joined on liquor store shelves this fall by two new family members, Canterbury Blonde and Canterbury Dunkel. In English history one Archbishop of Canterbury stands out above all others, the saintly Thomas Becket. And, now he stands out on PWB’s new packaging of its classic […]

Cariboo Rocks the North so popular, 2020 is already booked

The hum and buzz of the 2019 Cariboo Rocks the North Music Festival was still reverberating around Prince George when the announcement came that Northern BC’s biggest summer party at Exhibition Park will be back for a third year in 2020. How’s that for success? This year’s event was sponsored by the CN Centre and […]

New Plant Manager named at PWB

Cindy Hartford, who started in PWB’s Quality Assurance Department in 1996, has been appointed Plant Manager effective September 1st when the current manager, Tom Leboe, retires after 50 years’ service at the Prince George brewery. PWB CEO Taizan Komatsu said: “We are excited that Cindy will bring her expertise and keen attention to detail to […]

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