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Craft beer events · British Columbia
Vancouver
1 published event in Vancouver · updated hourly
Vancouver is one of Canada's most-established craft-beer cities, with more than sixty breweries in the metro area and a walkable brewery cluster in East Vancouver — locals call it Yeast Van — that packs a dozen taprooms into a few blocks. The city's event calendar runs strongest from late spring through early fall, with Vancouver Craft Beer Week bracketing everything else, and a busy indoor Oktoberfest and holiday season through Q4.
The biggest annual dates on the Vancouver beer calendar are Vancouver Craft Beer Week (late May–early June — the largest craft-beer celebration in Western Canada, spanning 10+ days of programming), Vancouver Craft Beer & Music Festival at PNE, Brewery & the Beast at Concord Pacific Place (late August), and Harvest Haus at the PNE Forum in October (Vancouver's Oktoberfest).
Vancouver's brewery clusters: Yeast Van in East Vancouver (Strange Fellows, Callister, Storm, Powell Street, Andina, Off the Rail, Doan's, Superflux and more), Mount Pleasant along Main Street (33 Acres, Brassneck, Main Street Brewing, Red Truck), Port Moody's Brewery Row (Yellow Dog, Twin Sails, Parkside, Moody Ales) as a short SkyTrain ride, and New Westminster (Steel & Oak, Steamworks).
Events across Vancouver1 pin
Signature festivals
- Vancouver Craft Beer Week
- Vancouver Craft Beer & Music Festival
- Brewery & the Beast Vancouver
- Harvest Haus (Vancouver Oktoberfest)
- Great Canadian Beer Festival (nearby Victoria)
Brewery districts
- Yeast Van (East Vancouver)
- Mount Pleasant / Main Street
- Port Moody Brewery Row
- New Westminster
About craft beer in Vancouver
Vancouver is home to a thriving Canadian craft-beer community with 1 published event tracked here right now. The city'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 Vancouver, 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 Vancouver 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 Vancouver
Beer events in Vancouver 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.
Nearby beer cities
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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 Vancouver, 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
▸When is Vancouver Craft Beer Week?
Vancouver Craft Beer Week runs from late May through early June each year — typically 10 days of programming across dozens of breweries in the metro area, culminating in a large festival weekend at PNE. It's the largest craft-beer week in Western Canada.
▸What is Yeast Van?
Yeast Van is Vancouver's informal name for the East Vancouver brewery cluster — roughly bounded by Powell Street, Clark Drive and Hastings — where a dozen breweries and taprooms sit within a few walkable blocks. It's the densest brewery district in the city and hosts most Vancouver brewery-crawl events.
▸Are there Vancouver craft beer festivals this weekend?
Use the This Weekend quick filter above to see every Vancouver craft-beer event scheduled Friday through Sunday. Peak weekend density is May through October.
▸How do I get to Port Moody's Brewery Row from downtown?
Port Moody's Brewery Row is a short SkyTrain ride from downtown Vancouver on the Millennium Line to Moody Centre station. Four breweries (Yellow Dog, Twin Sails, Parkside, Moody Ales) sit within a five-minute walk of the station.
Breweries in Vancouver
Discover the breweries hosting Vancouver beer events, plan a brewery-day route, and see the full Vancouver taproom map on our sister site.
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