The Great Canadian Beer Festival


Location:                 Royal Athletic Park, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Time and Date:        3-8 pm on Friday, September 11 and
                                12-6 pm on Saturday, September 12.

At a Glance

  • Admission is by ticket only.  $25/ticket Friday and $30/ticket Saturday.

  • There are no ticket sales at the door - ticket sales venues are listed 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.

  • Free shuttle buses every half hour between the festival and Bay Centre downtown.

  • This is the 17th annual festival.

  • Beer tokens are still $1.25 each. Most 4-oz tastings are one token.

  • At least 17 World Classic Styles of beer will be represented, including 15 samples of bitter, 18 samples of lager, 19 samples of fruit beers, 18 pale ales and 25 IPAs.

  • Belgian beer:  we have 12 authentic Belgian beers and several Belgian-style local brews.

  • We have 4 ciders this year. Cider is one of the most popular tipples at the GCBF.

  • Cask conditioned beer: This year there will be 24 cask-conditioned beers – the most available at any Canadian beer festival.
     
  • 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 $110,000 to the community. Our current charity is CFAX Santas Anonymous.

The Great Canadian Beer Festival is Canada’s longest-running major beer festival.

The Great Canadian Beer Festival is 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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