Great Western Brewing Company
Great Western Brewing Company works out of a 1927 brick brewery on 2nd Avenue in Saskatoon that has carried five names, running from Hub City Brewing through Western Canada Brewing and Drewry's to Carling O'Keefe. When Molson planned to close the plant in 1989, sixteen employees pooled their own money and bought it, which is where the Original 16 brand name comes from. The house has stayed independent since, remains the only continuously operating provincial brewery in Saskatchewan, and builds almost everything it makes on two-row prairie barley grown in Western Canada.
Beers by Great Western Brewing Company
19 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Great Western Brewing Company brew across 4 style families.
Across these 19 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:
Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one.
Compared with the wider catalogue of similar styles:
They stay close to the peer baseline on their recurring notes.
How we measure this
Two thresholds are at work here:
- The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
- The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.
A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.
Great Western Light
Their beers place in the Top 43% of the catalogue on average, across 18 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Great Western Brewing Company
Great Western Brewing Company works out of a 1927 brick brewery on 2nd Avenue in Saskatoon that has carried five names, running from Hub City Brewing through Western Canada Brewing and Drewry's to Carling O'Keefe. When Molson planned to close the plant in 1989, sixteen employees pooled their own money and bought it, which is where the Original 16 brand name comes from. The house has stayed independent since, remains the only continuously operating provincial brewery in Saskatchewan, and builds almost everything it makes on two-row prairie barley grown in Western Canada.
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