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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