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Garrison Brewing Company

🌍 Canada · Regional · ★ Award winning · Known for a full range of styles
Award winningKnown for a full range of styles

Garrison Brewing was founded in 1997 in the north end of Halifax, opening with an Irish Red Ale and a Nut Brown Ale. In 2006 it moved into the 1929 Immigration Annex on the south-end waterfront as the first tenant of the redeveloped Halifax Seaport, and in 2014 again into a former CN rail repair building nearby, where a purpose-built brewhouse supplies the core range. The original plant still runs as a market brewery for specialties and collaborations. Foraged local ingredients recur across the seasonal beers: spruce tips, lavender, rhubarb, pumpkin.

29Beers
11Styles
5.9%Avg ABV
1997Founded

Beers by Garrison Brewing Company

29 beers

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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Drawn from all 29 beers in the catalogue.

Brewery signature · based on 29 beers
Signature
What keeps showing up across their beers.
sweet
18 of 29 beers
dry
14 of 29 beers
malty
15 of 29 beers
smooth
16 of 29 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.

Portfolio range
How broad they brew.
Broad29 beers · 11 style families
Wheat Beer 6Pale Ale 5IPA 4Strong 3Stout 2Dark 2Sour 2Fruit Beer 2Lager 1Amber 1Porter 1

Their signature has to hold across very different styles — which makes the notes that do recur more telling, not less.

What sets them apart
Each beer measured against others of its own style, then averaged across the range. Compared with the wider catalogue across breweries making similar styles.
typical for similar stylesGarrison Brewing Company
in no beersin every beer
sweet
in 18 of 29 · typical similar styles brewery: 2 in 5
Notably more sweet than typical.
refreshing
in 8 of 29 · typical similar styles brewery: 3 in 5
Notably less refreshing than typical.
herbal
in 9 of 29 · typical similar styles brewery: fewer than 1 in 5
Notably more herbal than typical.

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About Garrison Brewing Company

Garrison Brewing was founded in 1997 in the north end of Halifax, opening with an Irish Red Ale and a Nut Brown Ale. In 2006 it moved into the 1929 Immigration Annex on the south-end waterfront as the first tenant of the redeveloped Halifax Seaport, and in 2014 again into a former CN rail repair building nearby, where a purpose-built brewhouse supplies the core range. The original plant still runs as a market brewery for specialties and collaborations. Foraged local ingredients recur across the seasonal beers: spruce tips, lavender, rhubarb, pumpkin.

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