The owners of Detention Brewing Co. in Rosalind, Alberta (population 162) transformed a former school into a brewery. The Rosalind School was opened in 1954 and shut its doors in 2013. The brewery, opened in 2022, celebrates the former use of the building in its beer naming (beers include Summer School Cerveza and No Running in the Halls Red Ale) and interior space (the gymnasium now functions as the brewhouse and the science lab as the tasting room). The brewery provides a space for the stories (and nostalgia) of school days to circulate.
This content was written by Vanessa Mathews, an Associate Professor of Geography & Environmental Studies at the University of Regina. Her research explores the role of craft breweries in processes of adaptive reuse and placemaking. This listing was uploaded by Audrey Gray, Project Officer at the National Trust for Canada, on July 8, 2024.
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