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These competitors on Port Moody’s Brewers Row are joining forces

Mario Bartel / Tri-City News • April 22, 2025

Brave Brewing and Twin Sails, two of the six craft breweries on Port Moody’s Brewers Row, are merging. Port Moody’s Brewers Row is getting smaller. But the number of individual craft breweries will stay the same. Brave Brewing and Twin […]

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‘It’s a tough biz’: This Port Coquitlam brewery is closing after just three years in operation

Mario Bartel / Tri-City News • July 11, 2024

Boardwalk Brewing, in Port Coquitlam’s Dominion Triangle area, opened in July 2021. Port Coquitlam’s brewery trail is getting a little shorter. Boardwalk Brewing, in the city’s Dominion Triangle area, is pulling its last tap Sunday, July 14. The three-year-old craft […]

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A new brewery is getting ready to open in Port Moody

Mario Bartel / Tri-City News • January 16, 2024

Train Wreck Brewing Co. will open early in 2024 in the Port Moody location formerly occupied by the Fraser Mills Fermentation Co. It appears a hole in Port Moody’s craft beer scene is about to be filled. A post on […]

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Fraser Mills Fermentation Co. Closes Down in Port Moody, BC

Mario Bartel / Tri-City News • September 29, 2023

A local brewer says one-quarter of craft breweries in Metro Vancouver seven years ago have closed, changed owners or rebranded. For the second time in just over a year, the future of one of Port Moody’s craft breweries is in […]

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Even a pandemic can’t stop Port Moody’s beer scene from growing

Mario Bartel / Tri-City News • April 22, 2020

As businesses across the province struggle to stay open amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the latest addition to Port Moody’s craft beer scene is about to throw open its doors. Well, maybe squeeze one of them open a crack. Four years […]

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