Okanagan Spring Brewery
Okanagan Spring opened in October 1985 in a former warehouse in downtown Vernon, started by German immigrants Jakob Tobler and Buko von Krosigk as a counterweight to the national lagers of the day. Its 1516 Lager follows the Bavarian purity law of that name. The brewery later passed to Sleeman Breweries and with it to Sapporo, while the Tobler family stayed on — Stefan Tobler has been brewmaster for decades. Brewing runs on two-row Canadian barley, a house yeast strain and Okanagan spring water.
Beers by Okanagan Spring Brewery
11 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Okanagan Spring Brewery brew a broad range across 5 style families.
Across these 11 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:
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.
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Their beers place in the Top 20% of the catalogue on average, across 11 ranked beers. Consistent rather than spiky — no single standout carrying the rest.
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About Okanagan Spring Brewery
Okanagan Spring opened in October 1985 in a former warehouse in downtown Vernon, started by German immigrants Jakob Tobler and Buko von Krosigk as a counterweight to the national lagers of the day. Its 1516 Lager follows the Bavarian purity law of that name. The brewery later passed to Sleeman Breweries and with it to Sapporo, while the Tobler family stayed on — Stefan Tobler has been brewmaster for decades. Brewing runs on two-row Canadian barley, a house yeast strain and Okanagan spring water.
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