Beer Festivals & Events

Cannstatter Volksfest

📍 Stuttgart, Germany · 🗓️ Late September to mid October

Stuttgart's giant folk festival with beer tents, rides and Swabian food — Oktoberfest's friendly rival.

Belgian Beer Weekend

📍 Brussels, Belgium · 🗓️ Early September

Belgian brewers take over the Grand-Place for a weekend of tastings in one of the world's most beautiful squares.

Oktoberfest

📍 Munich, Germany · 🗓️ Mid/late September to the first weekend of October

The world's biggest beer festival: six Munich breweries, giant tents, brass bands and litre-sized Maß mugs.

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Stockholm Beer & Whisky Festival

📍 Stockholm, Sweden · 🗓️ Late September to early October

Scandinavia's big tasting fest for beer, whisky and cider, split across trade and public sessions.

Great American Beer Festival

📍 Denver, USA · 🗓️ Autumn (dates announced annually)

Thousands of American beers under one roof, plus the most prestigious US brewing competition.

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Top 100 Virtual Tasting Night

📍 Online, Worldwide · 🗓️ First Thursday of every month

Our monthly livestream tasting: we pick three Top 100 beers, you grab them locally, and we taste and rate together live.

Zythos Beer Festival

📍 Leuven, Belgium · 🗓️ Spring

Belgium's largest consumer beer festival, run by beer lovers with hundreds of Belgian beers to taste.

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American Craft Beer Week

📍 Nationwide, USA · 🗓️ May

A week of celebrations at independent breweries across the US — the perfect excuse for a taproom crawl.

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Mondial de la Bière

📍 Montreal, Canada · 🗓️ Early summer

One of North America's great international beer fairs, with brewers from Quebec and around the world.

Qingdao International Beer Festival

📍 Qingdao, China · 🗓️ Summer

Asia's largest beer festival, born in the home city of Tsingtao brewery.

Great British Beer Festival

📍 London, England · 🗓️ August

CAMRA's flagship celebration of real ale, cider and perry — and home of the Champion Beer of Britain.

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