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Victoria

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Victoria is home to the Great Canadian Beer Festival — the country's oldest and most storied craft-beer festival, held every September on Vancouver Island since 1993 — plus Victoria Beer Week in late February and a strong year-round taproom scene concentrated in the Rock Bay district and downtown. Local heavyweights Phillips, Driftwood, Vancouver Island Brewing and Moon Under Water anchor the city's beer identity.

Victoria's calendar peaks in September around the Great Canadian Beer Festival weekend and in late February for Beer Week; the rest of the year is driven by brewery-hosted tap takeovers, release nights and Vancouver Island trail-style brewery visits.

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Signature festivals

  • Great Canadian Beer Festival
  • Victoria Beer Week
  • Vancouver Island craft-beer collaborations

Brewery districts

  • Rock Bay
  • Downtown Victoria
  • Esquimalt

About craft beer in Victoria

Victoria is home to a thriving Canadian craft-beer community with a growing calendar of events tracked here. 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 Victoria, 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 Victoria 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 Victoria

Beer events in Victoria 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.

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Our calendar grows every week through a mix of automated crawls, organizer submissions, and editorial curation. If you know of a beer event in Victoria, 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 the Great Canadian Beer Festival?

The Great Canadian Beer Festival is held each September on Vancouver Island, running since 1993 — making it Canada's oldest craft-beer festival. It typically books 60+ Canadian breweries and features regional food producers.

When is Victoria Beer Week?

Victoria Beer Week is typically the last week of February, running about 10 days of tap takeovers, collaboration brews, tastings and paired dinners across Victoria's breweries and beer-focused pubs.

Breweries in Victoria

Discover the breweries hosting Victoria beer events, plan a brewery-day route, and see the full Victoria taproom map on our sister site.

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