The Great Canadian Beer Festival


Location:                 Royal Athletic Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Time and Date:       3-8 pm on Friday, September 9 and
                              12-6 pm on Saturday, September 10.

At a Glance

  • Admission is by ticket only. $33.60 Friday and $39.20 Saturday.

  • There are no ticket sales at the door - ticket sales are online only on the website at http://www.gcbf.com/tickets.html

  • Ticket includes admission, souvenir festival glass and festival guide.  The ticket is good for a free BC Transit bus ride home.

  • This is the 19th annual festival.

  • Beer tokens are still $1.25 each. Each 4-oz tasting is one token.

  • At least 15 World Classic Styles of beer will be represented, including 43 samples of bitter, 11 samples of lager, 16 samples of fruit beers, 15 pale ales and 39 IPAs.

  • We have 5 ciders this year. Cider is one of the most popular tipples at the GCBF.

  • Cask conditioned beer: This year there will be a whopping 32 cask-conditioned beers – the most available at any Canadian beer festival.

  • For full beer listings see http://www.gcbf.com/brewers.html
     
  • The food outlets range from pizza, Mexican and Caribbean, to German, Greek and smokehouse barbecue.


Did you know … Each year the Great Canadian Beer Festival donates proceeds from the festival to local charities? Since our first festival in 1993 we are proud to have returned more than $150,000 to the community. Our current charity is CFAX Santas Anonymous.

The Great Canadian Beer Festival is Canada's longest-running major beer festival, and Canada's only craft-beer-only major beer festival

Contact

For more information contact Gerry Hieter, Chair, at the Great Canadian Beer Festival office:

Phone: 250-383-2332

Email: ghieter@shaw.ca,

website: http://www.gcbf.com/


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