A grassy field with a small wooden table in front of a clear blue sky with a few scattered clouds. Above the table, a mug of Bread Water Beer appears to be floating, with a Loaf below.

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We make one beer: Alberta Landbier Lager, brewed to showcase the province’s unique terroir.

Using traditional Czech decoction methods paired with ancient floor-malting practices, and Alberta barley grown by farmers we know by name, we make a single beer that expresses a vivid sense of place.

It’s premium quality without pretense.

It’s elevated, but simple.

It’s timeless, not trendy.

It’s beer that belongs at the dinner table.

It’s Bread Water.

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A glass mug of Bread Water beer with foam on top, placed on a piece of wood outdoors surrounded by greenery.

Two glasses of Bread Water beer and a baguette sandwich on a wooden table outdoors with grass and yellow flowers in the background.

A chair with a glass of Bread Water beer on it in a grassy field with yellow flowers, a blue jacket draped over the back of the chair, and a blue jean jacket hanging on the side of the chair, under a partly cloudy sky.

Group of people clinking glasses of Bread Water beer and cocktails with lemon slices, celebrating outdoors against a background of colorful flowers and greenery.

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WHERE TO DRINK

Landbier Lager is available on draft at select bars and restaurants across Alberta:

Calgary

Rain Dog Bar (rotating)

Pastiche

Ten Foot Henry

Palomino Smokehouse

Hawthorn Bar @ Fairmont Palliser Hotel

Edmonton

Slow Pour

If you want to take our beer home: Collective A Craft Beer Shop in SE Calgary pour our draft beer in crowlers to go.

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What is Landbier

Landbier is an old term that literally means “country beer,” and it refers to a beer that is brewed using a traditional brewing method while utilizing hyper-local ingredients and/or recipes. We are brewing a Czech-inspired landbier, which means we are using the highly respected Czech decoction mashing methods, but instead of using Czech grains, we’ve chosen to showcase Alberta barley.

More About Our Beer

Meet The Makers

Blake from Bread Water Beer Company, wearing a navy jacket and white shirt, holding a mug of Bread Water , standing in front of a stone wall near a brass beer tap.

Alexa from Bread Water Beer Company, smiling, holding a mug of beer in one hand and a brass beer tap handle in the other, standing in front of a purple wall with peeling paint.

Beer began as a humble drink that people made in their kitchens- a household staple, part of daily sustenance. The first beers were brewed in ancient Sumeria by a matriarch who fermented their family's bread recipe, essentially creating “bread water”.

Husband and wife team Blake Enemark and Alexa Gilker wanted to make a beer that honoured and returned to those roots. They loved the idea that the first beers were “bread water”, clarifying their focus on the grain side of beer, but also encompassing what beer represents to them– a beverage made with special, thoughtful ingredients brewed to sustain the people they love.

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