Smithers Brewing Company
Smithers Brewing Company opened on 27 June 2018 in downtown Smithers, a mountain town in northern British Columbia. Childhood friends Adin Bennett and Blaine Estby built it from the ground up on a 3rd Avenue lot, with the timber framing and joinery done by local craftspeople. Head brewer and partner Cam McKeigan came from Wheelhouse Brewing in Prince Rupert. A 15hL brewhouse carries the mainstays, a 1.3hL pilot system the one-off batches. Named Brewery of the Year at the 2025 Canadian Brewing Awards.
Beers by Smithers Brewing Company
24 beers
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The recurring character behind the beers
Smithers Brewing Company brew a broad range across 10 style families.
Across these 24 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.
Great Craic
Their beers place in the Top 50% of the catalogue on average, across 24 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.
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About Smithers Brewing Company
Smithers Brewing Company opened on 27 June 2018 in downtown Smithers, a mountain town in northern British Columbia. Childhood friends Adin Bennett and Blaine Estby built it from the ground up on a 3rd Avenue lot, with the timber framing and joinery done by local craftspeople. Head brewer and partner Cam McKeigan came from Wheelhouse Brewing in Prince Rupert. A 15hL brewhouse carries the mainstays, a 1.3hL pilot system the one-off batches. Named Brewery of the Year at the 2025 Canadian Brewing Awards.
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