Our 2025 Craft Brewing and Distilling Series will spotlight independent craft brewers, cideries, distillers, meaderies, and wineries coast to coast to coast giving them a platform to share their stories, passions, and products with readers who are beer and spirits enthusiasts and industry events Edmonton Craft Beer Festival that transforms Edmonton from the Oil Capital to the Beer Capital of Canada.
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Nothing brings people together like good food and great beverages. No one has done it better for the last two decades than Alberta Beer Festival with events like the Edmonton Craft Beer Festival and After Party.
Hundreds of beer and spirits enthusiasts make their way to Edmonton Craft Beer Festival to sample over 150 breweries, distilleries, cideries, meaderies, and RTDs (ready-to-drink beverages) made from local ingredients by local producers, like Grande Prairie’s Broken Oak Distilling Co, which offers a craft smooth character for the spirit enthusiast with its Award Winning Alberta-Made spirits that are carefully handcrafted and distilled in small batches to ensure premium quality by overseeing every detail from grain selection to your glass. Also at this year’s festival will be Fox Hills Cider, a family-owned & operated, small-batch hard apple cider company based out of Ardrossan, Alberta, that will be offering samples of its crisp, smooth, and refreshing hard cider.
This year’s event will also spotlight many of the amazing craft breweries in Alberta, like Medicine Hat Brewing Company, that will be bringing their best, so whether you’re looking for something light and refreshing, dark and rich, or fruity and unexpected, they have the perfect beer for you to sample. Then you have Snake Lake Brewing Company, which truly offers something for every craft enthusiast from its award-winning craft beers and EASY RTDs to its Sylvan Craft Spirits all made from the finest quality ingredients, inspired by Sylvan Lake’s rich history of work and play that will share the floor at the Edmonton Expo Centre along with many, many more including over twenty that have been featured in Spotlight on Business magazine over the past decade, showing that these are the best of the best brands making this events one not to miss.
Plus, you’ll also be able to taste delicious food from over 20 fantastic local pubs, restaurants, and eateries. Nothing goes better with food and drink than music, and Beerfest will keep the vibe going in every corner of the Edmonton Expo Centre with live music lounges and DJs bumping tunes the whole weekend so you can move like you mean it!
ABF’s Edmonton Craft Beer Festival offers three amazing sample sessions over two days. Your ticket gets you entry into the Edmonton Craft Beer Festival at the Edmonton Expo Centre, plus a commemorative sample ABF mug. As you can see below, there are many General Admission and VIP Package options to select from.
Festivals are where unforgettable moments can happen. The atmosphere, everyone having a great time, the chance for shared experiences with friends that can bond you together for life. Beerfest can open your mind to new tastes and new experiences. Maybe you’ll find a new favourite food or drink, find a new love, or take a new path that will lead to the adventure of a lifetime.
Remember, great things happen at #YEGBeerfest – so gather your team and make every moment count!
This is an 18+ event; be sure to bring a government-issued ID.
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by Ryan Myson