CraftBeerEvents
Craft beer events in Manitoba

Winnipeg

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Winnipeg's craft-beer scene has grown quickly, with breweries like Little Brown Jug, Half Pints, Nonsuch, Torque and Barn Hammer leading a taproom-driven event calendar that peaks in the summer patio months. The Manitoba Ale Trail coordinates province-wide programming, and the Flatlanders Beer Festival is Winnipeg's annual sampling event.

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Signature festivals

  • Flatlanders Beer Festival
  • Manitoba Ale Trail events

Brewery districts

  • Exchange District
  • St. Boniface
  • West End industrial pockets

About craft beer in Winnipeg

Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg, Manitoba, this page collects every upcoming, indexable event we know about, sorted chronologically so the soonest is always at the top.

How to plan around Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg

Beer events in Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg, Manitoba 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 Flatlanders Beer Festival?

Flatlanders Beer Festival is Winnipeg's annual sampling event featuring dozens of Manitoba and Canadian breweries. Confirm current-year dates and tickets on the festival's page.

▸What breweries are on the Manitoba Ale Trail?

The Manitoba Ale Trail is a coordinated tourism route connecting Manitoba's craft breweries — Winnipeg has the highest concentration, with additional stops in surrounding towns. Details are on the Manitoba Ale Trail site.

Breweries in Winnipeg

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

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