Farmhouse Fest is a celebration of farmhouse-style beers and ciders. Dry and refreshing to funky and complex, these are products made with a passion for the highest-quality ingredients and a no-shortcuts approach given the proper time to mature and evolve into something wonderful.

Set on the idyllic working farm at UBC, the atmosphere is just as important as the pours. Whether relaxing on a picnic blanket or catching some shade under the big tent, our spacious natural setting allows unique experiences for a festival of this nature.

Farmhouse Fest specializes in the funky, the fruity, the peppery, the estery, the tart, the dry, and the sour.

Cheers!

*Menus are subject to slight changes. Please check back on our website for any updates.

Price includes all taxes and gratuity. Eventbrite fees apply.  You are free to order additional drinks from our bar. Guests must be 19+ years or older. We are unable to modify or substitute any of our menu items as these dishes are prepared specifically for these beer dinners.  We will do our best to accommodate dietary concerns.

$54.95 (taxes & tip included) (Subject to Eventbrite Fees)

Monday, March 23th, 2020 

Doors open at 5:45PM for reception. Dinner will start at 6:30

*Please note that there is no reserved seating. Tables are first come first serve on event day as you arrive. Don't worry. You'll make new friends!

**Approx 36 seats  available. 

E-mail us at info@hogshack.ca if you have any questions!

Hopwired Festival 2020 begins February 29 2020 at the Croatian Cultural Center in Vancouver, Canada. Entry starts at 1:00pm.

Featuring local, national, and international craft beer and third-wave coffee. Hopwired encourages partnership between craft beer and coffee roasters to make beverages that are fruity, flowery, tangy, spicey, nutty, chocolatey, sweet, sour, soft, mild, and strong.

We have selected some of our favourite breweries and roasters to team up with each-other and bring you some of their best offerings. Patrons at the event will be able to taste the beer, and also the coffee that’s been used in that beer alongside their partner brewery.

Hopwired is focused on coffee. We also offer food trucks, donuts, and water by Element H20 to give your palate a break so that you can be nourished and enjoy your day.

Expect live interviews and tastings with brewers and roasters hosted by Aaron from CASCADIAN.BEER. With over 15 years in the broadcast industry in three countries, Aaron’s podcast stands out from the others and recently ranked as high as #2 in Apple Podcasts for craft beer. His background includes interviewing Paul Hadfield of Spinnakers, Canada's first brewpub in Victoria, to small up and coming breweries like Steel & Oak, Dageraad, and Propolis. Aaron recently interviewed industry leaders of a national scale like Charlie Papazian and other leaders in the Brewers Association.

We end the night with a special presentation from the Vancouver Coffee Snob. His unique style of writing has been called 'bold', 'unique' and 'worse than my 5 year old’s best efforts". He vehemently denies that his writing is bold and unique. Expect a coffee fueled energy award show that can only be described as bold and unique.fe

Start browsing the list of coffee and beer vendors at www.hopwiredfest.ca starting in December 2019

Early-bird General Admission Tickets go on sale Saturday, August 24th 2019 at 9:30am PST. Early-bird General Admission Tickets are $45 (plus taxes and fees) and permit event entry at 1:00pm PST and dismissal at 5:45pm PST with no later than 5:30pm PST with last drink served.

All event tickets includes all-inclusive beer, served at 4oz per serving, and all-inclusive coffee. All-inclusivity of beer is subject to change, based on current liquor serving rules and regulations by the Ministry of the Attorney General and the regional liquor inspectors.

On January 7th, the tickets increase to $65 (includes taxes and fees).

Due to our limited tickets and the media traction we have received in the past and the scope of our unique event, we recommend you buy immediately as we are expected to sell out of tickets very quickly.

ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS OR FESTIVAL TOKENS. NEW ENTRIES WILL NOT BE GRANTED AFTER 5:00PM PST. RE-ENTRY IS ALLOWED UNTIL 5:00PM PST FOR WRISTBAND HOLDERS ONLY. LAST BEER TASTER AND COFFEE TASTER SERVED IS AT 5:30PM PST AND NO MINUTE LATER.

The festival makes no guarantee that any particular beer or brewery or coffee or coffee roaster will be pouring or available the entire festival. Some beers and coffees will sell out faster than others. Your ticket does not guarantee any specific beer nor does it guarantee any specific coffee. Tickets and tokens will not be refunded. All beers and coffees pouring will be available to General Admission Ticket Holders Entrance starting at 1:00pm PST until they sell out and/or by event day's end. Each beer vendor booth and each coffee vendor booth reserve the right to hold back beers and coffee.

The festival makes no guarantee that the liquor license permits all-inclusive drinking. 

Hopwired, Hopwired's Vendors and Sponsors, West Craft and the Croatian Cultural Center hold no responsibility if any patron gets burned from hot liquid or steam. Please use discretion with hot beverages.

Designated drivers ("Coffee Only") tickets receive special wrist bands with access to water and coffee provided by the festival's water sponsor Element H20 and it's coffee vendors. We ask all attendees to plan ahead, drink responsibly and arrange a safe ride home. There is a skytrain nearby. Please DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE.

This event is 19+ only - no minors allowed. Two pieces of ID will be required for entry. Please bring your universe ticket with you to the event for entry. Serving it Right Rules apply. Any person appearing intoxicated will not be allowed entry to the festival. We reserve the right to have security remove unruly and/or intoxicated persons from the festival at our discretion.

ALWAYS READ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BEFORE BUYING TICKETS.

Many of our Halloween traditions originated with the ancient Celtic end-of-summer festival Samhain. Fearing the long dark winter ahead, people believed that spirits of the dead would come to visit, causing trouble, damaging crops and perhaps even taking their loved ones back to the other side. They lit bonfires and wore masks to scare evil spirits away, while others welcomed the friendly ghosts of deceased relatives and friends to a feast and setting a place for them at the table. As Christianity spread, old Celtic rites were supplanted by new church-sanctioned festivities like All Souls Day, which incorporated elements of Samhain but with a definite churchy twist. The night before became known as All Hallows Eve.

The ancient Celts believed the autumnal presence of spirits of the dead made it easier to divine prophecies about the future, & so gathered around fires to make offerings to the who gods they believed controlled their world for protection during the long dark winter. 

We welcome spirits both living & dead with special offerings & happenings:

ALL HALLOWS PARTY!
Friday October 25th
Trick wandering spirits & get yourself a treat!
Come in costume for a beer, Halloween games & a costume contest. 
7-10pm

JACK-O-LANTERN CARVING
Sunday October 27th
Jack-o-lanterns discourage evil spirits from entering your home. Come have a beer & carve a pumpkin to put by your door.
1pm till Pumpkins gone

SPOOKY MOVIE NIGHT
Thursday October 31st
Scary movie night! Beer, free popcorn & scary movies
7-10pm

Many of our Halloween traditions originated with the ancient Celtic end-of-summer festival Samhain. Fearing the long dark winter ahead, people believed that spirits of the dead would come to visit, causing trouble, damaging crops and perhaps even taking their loved ones back to the other side. They lit bonfires and wore masks to scare evil spirits away, while others welcomed the friendly ghosts of deceased relatives and friends to a feast and setting a place for them at the table. As Christianity spread, old Celtic rites were supplanted by new church-sanctioned festivities like All Souls Day, which incorporated elements of Samhain but with a definite churchy twist. The night before became known as All Hallows Eve.

The ancient Celts believed the autumnal presence of spirits of the dead made it easier to divine prophecies about the future, & so gathered around fires to make offerings to the who gods they believed controlled their world for protection during the long dark winter. 

We welcome spirits both living & dead with special offerings & happenings:

ALL HALLOWS PARTY!
Friday October 25th
Trick wandering spirits & get yourself a treat!
Come in costume for a beer, Halloween games & a costume contest. 
7-10pm

JACK-O-LANTERN CARVING
Sunday October 27th
Jack-o-lanterns discourage evil spirits from entering your home. Come have a beer & carve a pumpkin to put by your door.
1pm till Pumpkins gone

SPOOKY MOVIE NIGHT
Thursday October 31st
Scary movie night! Beer, free popcorn & scary movies
7-10pm

Many of our Halloween traditions originated with the ancient Celtic end-of-summer festival Samhain. Fearing the long dark winter ahead, people believed that spirits of the dead would come to visit, causing trouble, damaging crops and perhaps even taking their loved ones back to the other side. They lit bonfires and wore masks to scare evil spirits away, while others welcomed the friendly ghosts of deceased relatives and friends to a feast and setting a place for them at the table. As Christianity spread, old Celtic rites were supplanted by new church-sanctioned festivities like All Souls Day, which incorporated elements of Samhain but with a definite churchy twist. The night before became known as All Hallows Eve.

The ancient Celts believed the autumnal presence of spirits of the dead made it easier to divine prophecies about the future, & so gathered around fires to make offerings to the who gods they believed controlled their world for protection during the long dark winter. 

We welcome spirits both living & dead with special offerings & happenings:

ALL HALLOWS PARTY!
Friday October 25th
Trick wandering spirits & get yourself a treat!
Come in costume for a beer, Halloween games & a costume contest. 
7-10pm

JACK-O-LANTERN CARVING
Sunday October 27th
Jack-o-lanterns discourage evil spirits from entering your home. Come have a beer & carve a pumpkin to put by your door.
1pm till Pumpkins gone

SPOOKY MOVIE NIGHT
Thursday October 31st
Scary movie night! Beer, free popcorn & scary movies
7-10pm

Press Release

They travel to hop farms all around the province to collect fresh hops that are still wet and juicy from the harvest. Then they race back to their breweries to brew a batch of beer with those hops. These special fresh hop (or wet hop) beers come out a few weeks later and are available for a short time at the beginning of autumn. 

The Victoria Beer Society is proud to announce the return of Fresh to Death: Victoria’s Harvest Celebration of Fresh Hop Beers on Saturday, October 12 from 2pm to 5pm at the Roundhouse at Bayview Place. The event will feature more than 20 fresh hop beers from BC craft breweries, along with some pumpkin beers and Oktoberfest-style lagers, all celebrating the harvest season.

For craft beer connoisseurs, we have created a VIP ticket that includes an exclusive guided tasting of a selection of four fresh hop beers led by Jeff Kendrew, Certified Cicerone, and early access to the event. Jeff will pick four beers that showcase different flavour profiles, and discuss what makes them special and unique. This VIP event begins at 1pm ahead of the start of the regular event at 2pm, and sold out early last year, the first time it was offered.

The full beer list appears on the following page.

Event Details:

Fresh to Death: Victoria's Harvest Celebration of Fresh Hop Beers

• Saturday, October 12, 2pm to 5pm

• The Roundhouse at Bayview Place, 253 Esquimalt Rd

• General Admission: $30+GST / VIP Tasting & Early Admission at 1pm: $50+GST 

• Tickets are available online at victoriabeersociety.com 

• Pop-up liquor store provided on site by Vessel Liquor

• Food available on site from from a local food truck

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Brewery

Category 12 Brewing

Container Brewing

Dageraad Brewing

Driftwood Brewery

Fuggles & Warlock Craft Works

Howl Brewing
Howl Brewing

Hoyne Brewing

Longwood Brewery
Longwood Brewery

Mount Arrowsmith Brewing

Off the Rail Brewing
Off the Rail Brewing

Parallel 49 Brewing

Phillips Brewing

Red Arrow Brewing Company

Small Block Brewing

Strange Fellows Brewing
Strange Fellows Brewing

Strathcona Beer Co.

Twin City Brewing

Wheelhouse Brewing

Whistle Buoy Brewing

Yellow Dog Brewing

The great canadian beer festival returns to royal athletic park september 6-7, 2019!

Regular tickets on sale now at gcbf.Ticketrocket.Co and include both friday & saturday single day tickets along with weekend passes.

Discounted tickets for victoria beer society members are on sale now! Get a 25% discount on friday & saturday single-day tickets. Visit victoriabeersociety.Com to become a member today!

…

As the Victoria Beer Society, we are excited to host the 27th annual edition of Canada’s oldest beer festival, and so thrilled to be carrying on the legacy for years to come.

This year’s festival will feature a diverse range of more than 60 craft breweries from British Columbia (and beyond!) along with local cideries and food trucks. The BC Ale Trail-er will also be on-site serving a selection of beers from breweries that are unable to make the trip to Victoria.

Check out the list of 90+ breweries that will be attending this year’s Great Canadian Beer Festival.

Food Trucks include Ali Baba, Deadbeetz, Greek on the Street, L’Authentique, Mama Rosies, Taco Justice, Roast, and The Deep Friar.

DATES & TIMES

Friday, September 6th 4:00pm – 9:00pm
Saturday, September 7th 12:00pm – 5:00pm

TICKET DETAILS

Discounted Tickets (for Victoria Beer Society Members)
• Friday September 6 – Single Day Ticket – $30.00 + Taxes & Fees (25% discount) – Limit of 4 per membership account
• Saturday September 7 – Single Day Ticket – $30.00 + Taxes & Fees (25% discount) • Limit of 4 per membership account

Public On-Sale 
Wednesday, July 3rd at 10am
• Friday September 6 Single Day Ticket – $40.00 + Taxes & Fees
• Saturday September 7 Single Day Ticket – $40.00 + Taxes & Fees
• Friday & Saturday Weekend Pass – $70.00 + Taxes & Fees

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• In and outs allowed
• No minors
• Tobacco smoking in designated area only
• All bags will be searched
• No outside food or drink
• No cannabis products allowed on-site

WANT TO GET INVOLVED?

If you are a brewery, vendor, food truck, or potential volunteer wanting to participate in beer fest, please get in touch in one of the following ways:

Brewery: beer@victoriabeersociety.com
Vendor & Food Truck: please register here to be added to our database for GCBF and future event consideration – this does not guarantee a spot
Volunteer: please register here to be added to our Volunteer database for GCBF and future events
General: info@victoriabeersociety.com

You won’t want to miss #CVBF2019! Last year sold out so get your tickets early to the Clover Valley Beer Festival presented by The Property Twins on Saturday August 10, 2019 at the Bill Reid Amphitheatre. 40+ Breweries, 80+ Brews, Live Music, and a kick-ass time! Partial proceeds go towards Twins Cancer Fundraising. Together, they have raised over $3,000,000 to fight the bullshit disease. Cheers to that!

Join us for our second pairing dinner of the season!

Executive Chef Chris Andraza curates a hand crafted four-course seafood menu to accompany some of the season’s best beers from Black Kettle Brewing, including an exlcusive Fanny Bay Oyster Stout brewed just for this event! Join us for Seafood & Brews this Jan. 14th at 7:30pm at our downtown Vancouver oyster bar location. We will be bumping Soul & Blues music, drinking great local beer, and having a shucking good time! For more information please call us at 778.379.9510.

Ticket price includes the meal & beer tasting, gratuity, and taxes.

Sample Menu:

Fresh Oysters

Crab & Beef Carpaccio

Porchetta & Prawns

Dessert

Fresh-hop season is here and we are celebrating with the release of our On Target Saison. On Thursday October 4th, come celebrate with us by getting $1-off pints of our newly released beer and entering for a turkey giveaway for the Thanksgiving weekend!

About the beer:
In collaboration with Northwest Hop Farms, we brewed this saison with Sterling hops picked straight from the bine and added fresh to the kettle.We paired the floral and citrus flavours of Sterling with the intense grassiness of fresh hops and a dry, peppery finish.

ABV: 6.3%

IBU: 23

Malt: Pilsner, Wheat, Vienna

Hops: Saaz, Sterling

Special Ingredients: Fresh Sterling hops from Northwest Hop Farms

Featuring local, national, and international craft beer and third-wave coffee. Hopwired encourages partnership between craft beer and coffee roasters to make beverages that are fruity, flowery, tangy, spicey, nutty, chocolately, sweet, sour, soft, mild, and strong.

We have selected some of our favourite breweries and roasters to team up with eachother and bring you some of their best offerings. Patrons at the event will be able to taste the beer, and also the coffee that’s been used in that beer alongside their partner brewery. Our pals, Vancouver Espresso Machine Icon's ECM Canada will be serving all-inclusive espresso as part of our festival experiences.

Hopwired is focused on coffee. We also offer food trucks, donuts, and water by Element H20 to give your palate a break so that you can be nourished and enjoy your day.

Expect live interviews and tastings with brewers and roasters hosted by Aaron from CASCADIAN.BEER. With over 15 years in the broadcast industry in three countries, Aaron’s podcast stands out from the others and recently ranked as high as #2 in Apple Podcasts for craft beer. His background includes interviewing Paul Hadfield of Spinnakers, Canada's first brewpub in Victoria, to small up and coming breweries like Steel & Oak, Dageraad, and Propolis. Aaron recently interviewed industry leaders of a national scale like Charlie Papazian and other leaders in the Brewers Association.

We end the night with a special presentation from the Vancouver Coffee Snob. His unique style of writing has been called 'bold', 'unique' and 'worse than my 5 year old’s best efforts". He vehemently denies that his writing is bold and unique. Expect a coffee fueled energy award show that can only be described as bold and unique.

Up to 40 vendors with up to 15 unique collaborations between 15 craft breweries and 15 coffee roasters. Browse the Start browsing the list of coffee and beer vendors at www.hopwired.ca starting in December 2017

General Admission Tickets go on sale Saturday, December 16th 2017 at 10:00am PST. General Admission Tickets are $55 (plus taxes and fees) and permit event entry at 1:00pm PST and dismissal at 5:15pm PST with no later than 5:00pm PST with last drink served.

All event tickets includes 4 beer drink tokens, all-inclusive coffee at up to 3oz per serving and espresso, as well as a souvenir 10-1/2oz glass with a 4oz pour line.

Additional 4oz tokens are available at 6 tokens for $10. There is an ATM on site.

On February 5th, the tickets increase to $60 (plus taxes and fees).

Due to our limited tickets and the media traction we have received, we recommend you buy immediately as we are expected to sell out of tickets very quickly.
 

1 token is required per 4oz pour of any beer. Larger pours are legally restricted. Extra Tokens are available for purchase on-site at the Hopwired booth. Coffee and espresso are both all-inclusive but served at discretion of volume by designated pourers.

ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL. NO REFUNDS FOR FESTIVAL TICKETS OR FESTIVAL TOKENS. NEW ENTRIES WILL NOT BE GRANTED AFTER 4:00PM PST. RE-ENTRY IS ALLOWED UNTIL 4:30PM PST FOR WRISTBAND HOLDERS ONLY. LAST BEER TASTER AND COFFEE TASTER SERVED IS AT 5:00PM PST AND NO MINUTE LATER.

The festival makes no guarantee that any particular beer or brewery or coffee or coffee roaster will be pouring or available the entire festival. Some beers and coffees will sell out faster than others. Your ticket does not guarantee any specific beer nor does it guarantee any specific coffee. Tickets and tokens will not be refunded. All beers and coffees pouring will be available to General Admission Ticket Holders Entrance starting at 1:00pm PST until they sell out and/or by event day's end. Each beer vendor booth and each coffee vendor booth reserve the right to hold back beers and coffee.

Hopwired, Hopwired's Vendors and Sponsors, West Craft and the Croatian Cultural Center hold no responsibility if any patron gets burned from hot liquid or steam. Please use discretion with hot beverages.

Designated drivers ("Coffee Only") tickets receive special wrist bands with access to water and coffee provided by the festival's water sponsor Element H20 and it's coffee vendors. We ask all attendees to plan ahead, drink responsibly and arrange a safe ride home. There is a skytrain nearby. Please DO NOT DRINK AND DRIVE.

This event is 19+ only - no minors allowed. Two pieces of ID will be required for entry. Please bring your universe ticket with you to the event for entry. Serving it Right Rules apply. Any person appearing intoxicated will not be allowed entry to the festival. We reserve the right to have security remove unruly and/or intoxicated persons from the festival at our discretion.

ALWAYS READ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS BEFORE BUYING TICKETS.

On Thursday, February 22, Tofino Brewing Co. and Tacofino will team up for a 5-course dinner at our Hastings Sunrise location.

With two seatings at 6pm and 8:30pm, the dinner will showcase Tofino Brewing beer paired with brand new Tacofino dishes created by Executive Chef Stefan Hartmann and Head Chef James You.

TACOFINO HASTINGS X TOFINO BREWING CO. 
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22

— menu and pairings will be announced in the coming weeks! —

TICKETS
Tickets for the dinner are $50 inclusive of gratuity, taxes and Eventbrite fees. All sales are final.

Tickets can be purchased here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tacofino-beer-dinner-series-tofino-brewing-co-tickets-41976560021

Drop into Fernie Brewing to celebrate the release of Black Mammoth Winter Ale. To celebrate this collaboration release, Happy Cow will be on-hand handing out samples of ice cream to pair with your sample of Black Mammoth.

Best of Belgium Brewmaster’s Dinner - this one is extra special as we will be giving away an all expenses paid trip for TWO to Belgium - valued at $15000

For each of our monthly Brewmaster’s Dinners, we partner with a different brewery to bring you an evening of great food and beer. Indulge in a Chef-crafted four-course dinner menu paired with our partner brewery’s offerings, with each course designed to cut or complement the brew. Welcome beer at 6pm, first course served at 6:30pm.

Summer Patio Series: Brewmaster's Dinner in partnership with Four Winds Brewing - Tuesday, September 26th, 2017