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Craft beer events in Canada

Ontario

4 published events across Ontario · 7 cities

Ontario is Canada's largest craft-beer market by brewery count, with more than 350 licensed breweries stretching from Ottawa through Toronto and Hamilton to the Niagara Region, Waterloo, London and beyond. Ontario Craft Brewers coordinates province-wide programming for Ontario Craft Beer Week each June, and the province hosts several of Canada's biggest annual craft-beer events.

Toronto Festival of Beer draws the largest single-event attendance in Canada each July, Cask Days at Evergreen Brick Works is the country's premier cask-conditioned festival every October, and Because Beer in Hamilton has grown into a beloved regional festival. Kitchener-Waterloo's world-famous Oktoberfest brings crossover craft-beer attention every autumn.

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About craft beer in Ontario

Ontario is home to a thriving Canadian craft-beer community with 4 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 Ontario, this page collects every upcoming, indexable event we know about, sorted chronologically so the soonest is always at the top.

How to plan around Ontario 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 Ontario

Beer events in Ontario 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 Ontario

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

Explore beer events across Canada

Ontario'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 Ontario 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 Ontario Craft Beer Week?

Ontario Craft Beer Week runs in June each year, coordinated by Ontario Craft Brewers. Individual breweries province-wide host tap takeovers, cask nights, brewer meet-and-greets, and collaboration launches through the week.

What is the biggest beer festival in Ontario?

By attendance, Toronto Festival of Beer at Bandshell Park is the largest. By reputation among craft-beer enthusiasts, Cask Days at Evergreen Brick Works is the definitive Ontario craft-beer festival.