CraftBeerEvents
Craft beer events in Canada

British Columbia

12 published events across British Columbia · 6 cities

British Columbia has one of the deepest craft-beer scenes in North America, with more than 220 licensed breweries spread from Vancouver Island through the Lower Mainland, up the Sea-to-Sky corridor and out into the Okanagan and Kootenay valleys. The event calendar is anchored by Vancouver Craft Beer Week in late spring, the Great Canadian Beer Festival in Victoria in September, Whistler Village Beer Festival, and dozens of city and regional festivals through the summer.

BC's craft-beer trails — the BC Ale Trail chief among them — connect brewery clusters into planned itineraries. Most of the province's biggest annual events cluster in Vancouver, Victoria, and Whistler, with strong regional showings in Kelowna, Nanaimo and Port Moody.

Events across British Columbia12 pins
Oktoberfest — photo from bcaletrail.ca
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Community EventOktoberfest
Kelowna Beer Institute, Kelowna
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About craft beer in British Columbia

British Columbia is home to a thriving Canadian craft-beer community with 12 published events tracked here right now. The province's scene spans everything from destination beer festivals — often hosted at parks, waterfronts, and convention centres — down to weekly brewery programming like cask nights, trivia leagues, live music evenings, and monthly taproom releases. Whether you're a local looking for something to do this weekend or a visitor planning a beer-focused trip to British Columbia, this page collects every upcoming, indexable event we know about, sorted chronologically so the soonest is always at the top.

How to plan around British Columbia beer events

Every event on CraftBeerEvents.ca has its own permanent page with the venue address, ticket link (direct to the organizer's site — never a third-party wall), time-zone-aware start/end times, price range where available, admission notes, and — where the organizer has provided them — pricing tiers, food-vendor lineups, entertainment schedules, and gallery photos. Use the interactive map to browse events geographically, or narrow to a shorter window with the this-weekend view. Planning a full brewery tour around an event? Cross-reference the participating taprooms on our sister site BreweryFinder.ca for hours, styles, and directions.

Popular event types in British Columbia

Beer events in British Columbia span multiple formats: multi-day craft-beer festivals with dozens of breweries pouring together (typically in summer/early-fall), single-night tap takeovers where a guest brewery takes over a taproom's lines, quarterly cask nights, seasonal beer releases, brewery tours and tastings for beer-education tourists, brewery anniversary parties (often the biggest non-festival draws of the year), and community events — pub-crawl fundraisers, Oktoberfests, harvest festivals, food-and-beer pairing nights. Filter all events by type to focus on what you're after.

Cities in British Columbia

Explore British Columbia's beer scene city-by-city. Each city hub lists local breweries, upcoming events, and taproom recommendations:

Explore beer events across Canada

British Columbia's beer scene is one piece of the coast-to-coast Canadian craft-beer picture. Continue exploring:

Missing an event?

Our calendar grows every week through a mix of automated crawls, organizer submissions, and editorial curation. If you know of a beer event in British Columbia we haven't listed yet — a brewery release, tap takeover, festival, trivia night, food-and-beer pairing — please submit it here (free) so other beer fans can find it. Organizers can also claim an existing listing to keep it up to date, add pricing tiers, upload event photos, and reach the full audience of Canadian craft-beer enthusiasts subscribed to our weekly digest.

Frequently asked

What is the biggest craft beer festival in BC?

By event size, Vancouver Craft Beer Week is the largest — 10+ days of programming across dozens of Vancouver breweries in late May/early June. The Great Canadian Beer Festival in Victoria is Canada's oldest craft-beer festival (since 1993) and remains one of the most respected.

When is Whistler Village Beer Festival?

Whistler Village Beer Festival is held every September at Whistler Olympic Plaza and surrounding village venues. Confirm the current year's dates on the festival's page.