Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.

The vendor's history page and the BC Ale Trail directory describe a brewery Matt Phillips founded in 2001 with his own credit cards and still runs, and The CANADA List records it as Canadian-owned. OrgBook BC verifies the structure (Phillips Brewing and Malting Co. and Fermentorium Distilling Company are trade names owned by Phillips Brewing Limited Partnership, home jurisdiction Manitoba, general partner Phillips Brewing GP Ltd.) but not who holds the partnership units; Corporations Canada returned zero results, and the Manitoba Companies Office and BC Registry partner filings were not checked.

• Our History — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “And so it was in 2001, With his credit line under the gun, In a town by the sea, Called Esquimalt B.C., The story of Phillips Brewery had begun”
• Phillips Brewing & Malting · directory “Back in 2001 when Matt Phillips wanted to open his own brewery, all the banks and credit unions turned down his loan requests. Undeterred, he maxed out all the credit cards he could get his hands and started it that way.”
• OrgBook BC: PHILLIPS BREWING LIMITED PARTNERSHIP (XP0892935) · registry record “entity_type XP, registered_jurisdiction BC, home_jurisdiction MB, relationship Owns / Does Business As”
• OrgBook BC: PHILLIPS BREWING GP LTD. (A0125712) · registry record “entity_type A, registered_jurisdiction BC, home_jurisdiction MB”
• OrgBook BC search: phillips brewing and malting · registry record “PHILLIPS BREWING AND MALTING CO. SP ACT 2023-01-05 BC”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Corporations Canada · registry record “Searched for: Corporate name: Phillips Brewing 0 results were found, 0 returned.”
• The CANADA List · directory “Canadian-owned craft, brewed in Victoria, British Columbia, local jobs, Canadian-sourced ingredients.”

The vendor states that brewing, malting, and distilling all happen at its Government St site in Victoria, and the whisky site says the spirit is malted, distilled, and aged on site. BC Liquor Stores lists the beer as BC craft, domestic.

• Phillips Brewing and Malting Co · the vendor's own site “We launched our malting plant in 2015 and are one of the only craft brewers in Canada to malt our own barley.”
• Maltworks | Taste Local Malts — Explore Our Brews — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “By malting in-house we are able to support local farmers, and by using barley grown 15 minutes away we are also able to cut down on the emissions of transporting malt across the country.”
• Sanctuary Whisky | Canadian Whisky, Crafted at the edge of the wild · the vendor's own site “Produced from locally grown barley that is malted on site, and then matured in a combination of Bourbon, Red Wine, and Phillips Beer casks.”
• Contact — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “PHILLIPS BREWING & MALTING CO. 2010 Government St. Victoria, BC V8T 4P1”
• PHILLIPS - BLUE BUCK ALE CAN Canadian Domestic Beer · source

Single-site business with head office, brewery, maltworks, distillery, taproom, and beer shop at 2010 Government St, Victoria, per the contact and careers pages. No employee count or LinkedIn check was possible.

• Contact — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “PHILLIPS BREWING & MALTING CO. 2010 Government St. Victoria, BC V8T 4P1”
• Careers | Join Our Team - Explore Careers — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “We value creativity down the line, from production to sales.”
• Phillips Brewing & Malting Co. (Q134293450) · source “brewery in Victoria, Canada; 2010 Government St., Victoria, BC”

The vendor says its barley is grown on Vancouver Island and malted in house, bottles come from a Canadian bottle pool, and labels are recycled paper, but Blue Buck is brewed with northwest hops, which mostly come from the US Pacific Northwest, and the whisky is aged in bourbon and red wine casks. The split is an estimate; the share of purchased malt versus in-house malt is not published, and the online merch shop runs on Shopify with the main site on Squarespace.

• Maltworks | Taste Local Malts — Explore Our Brews — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “By malting in-house we are able to support local farmers, and by using barley grown 15 minutes away we are also able to cut down on the emissions of transporting malt across the country.”
• Environment | Explore Sustainability - Join Our Green Efforts — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “We're members of a bottle pool, using recycled bottles for our beer, which means every 341mL bottle of Phillips is reused an average of 13 times.”
• Blue Buck Ale | Explore & Enjoy Blue Buck Ale Today — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “featuring a robust, malt-forward body underpinned with crisp northwest hops”
• Sanctuary Whisky | Canadian Whisky, Crafted at the edge of the wild · the vendor's own site “Produced from locally grown barley that is malted on site, and then matured in a combination of Bourbon, Red Wine, and Phillips Beer casks.”
• Terms of Service 1 — Phillips Brewing · the vendor's own site “This website is operated by Phillips Brewing and Malting Co.”