Great Canadian Beer Festival

The line-up is set and the tickets are on sale.

The Great Canadian Beer Festival will return to Royal Athletic Park in Victoria, BC, on Friday, September 6 and Saturday, September 7, 2019. This year’s festival is the 27th annual GCBF — the first year under the new management of the Victoria Beer Society following the handover from the original founders who retired last fall.

“We are so excited to have this opportunity to put a fresh spin on Canada’s longest-running craft beer festival,” says Joe Wiebe, a co-founder and spokesperson for the Victoria Beer Society. “The lineup of breweries will be better than ever, including many coming from across Canada.”

Up to 4,500 people are expected to attend this celebration of craft beer each day. This year’s festival will feature a diverse range of more than 60 craft breweries from British Columbia along with local cideries and food trucks. The BC Ale Trail-er will also be on-site serving a selection of beers from breweries that are unable to make the trip to Victoria. Expect an expanded array of breweries from across Canada to be announced in late June.

Discounted Early Bird Tickets for Victoria Beer Society members will go on sale Tuesday,
June 18. VBS members can purchase tickets before everyone else and receive a 25% discount on Single Day Friday & Saturday Tickets. Public on-sale begins Wednesday, July 3, including both Single Day Tickets along with new Friday & Saturday Weekend Passes.

Tickets are still available through ticketrocket.co but, as is usual with this event, go fast.

The line-up:

BRITISH COLUMBIA

33 Brewing Experiment
4 Mile Brewing
Ace Brewing
Andina Brewing
Axe & Barrel Brewing
Bad Dog Brewing
Barnside Brewing
Bomber Brewing
Bridge Brewing
Britannia Brewing
Cannery Brewing
Canoe Brewpub
Category 12 Brewing
Coal Harbour Brewing
Container Brewing
Crannog Ales
CrossRoads Brewing
Dageraad Brewing
Dead Frog Brewery
Dogwood Brewing
Driftwood Brewery
East Vancouver Brewing
Faculty Brewing
Fernie Brewing
Field House Brewing
Foamers’ Folly Brewing
Four Winds Brewing
Fuggles & Warlock Craftworks
Gladstone Brewing
Howl Brewing
Hoyne Brewing
Île Sauvage Brewing
KPU Brew Lab
Lighthouse Brewing
Longwood Brewery
Luppolo Brewing
Monkey 9 Brewing
Moody Ales
Moon Under Water
Mount Arrowsmith Brewing
Off the Rail Brewing
Old Abbey Ales
Parallel 49 Brewing
Parkside Brewery
Phillips Brewing & Malting
Ravens Brewing
Red Racer Beer
Russell Brewing
Rustic Reel Brewing
Small Block Brewing
Smithers Brewing
Sooke Brewing
Sooke Oceanside Brewery
Spinnakers Brewpub
Steamworks Brewing
Steel & Oak Brewing
Strange Fellows Brewing
Strathcona Beer
Swans Brewery
Torchlight Brewing
Townsite Brewing
Trading Post Brewing
Twa Dogs Brewery
Twin City Brewing
Vancouver Island Brewing
Wheelhouse Brewing
Whistle Buoy Brewing
Whistler Brewing
White Sails Brewing
Wildeye Brewing
Wolf Brewing
Yellow Dog Brewing

YUKON
Winterlong Brewing

ALBERTA
Analog Brewing
Annex Ales
Blindman Brewing
The Dandy Brewing Co.
Dog Island Brewing
The Establishment Brewing Co.
Last Best Brewing
Town Square Brewing

SASKATCHEWAN
9 Mile Legacy
Black Bridge Brewing
Malty National Brewery
Nokomis Ales

MANITOBA
Torque Brewing

ONTARIO
Beau’s Brewing
Bench Brewing
Collective Arts Brewing
Nickel Brook Brewing

QUÉBEC
Dieu du Ciel!
Glutenberg Brewery
Les Trois Mousquetaires

NOVA SCOTIA
2 Crows Brewing
Big Spruce Brewery
Tatamagouche Brewing

CIDER (BC)
Merridale Ciderworks
Tod Creek Cider