Join our owner and head brewer Nathan and our assistant brewer Quentin for an engaging evening where the history and genre-changing flavours of the beers of Chimay unfold before you on your plate and in your glass. We’ll journey from 1850 to the present and, using beer as and food our guide, explore the history of some of the most famous Belgian beer styles and the science of why they go so well with traditional Belgian fare.

Your ticket gets you a four-course meal paired with four 250ml Chimay beers.

Join us on Thursday, December 3 at 6:30pm.

Get off the screen and swing by Calgary’s historical brewery for a day of analog fun with a double-elimination cribbage tournament!

It’s free to enter and we have a great prize for the winner: a pair of centre-ice tickets to a Calgary Flames game against the New York Islanders on Saturday, January 9 against the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Guided Chimay Tasting

It began with twelve monks, two horses, and a patch of soggy forest nobody wanted.

It became one of the most remarkable breweries in the world.

The beer they make is outstanding, but that’s perhaps the least impressive part of the story. This brewery was founded in a monastery and run by monks with the goal of improving life in the surrounding region.

But the Nazis almost destroyed it.

And yet it only got better.

Follow a small silver coin into a world of wealthy ports, ambitious kings and approaching upheaval. Who held the power in eighth-century England—and how far could a king’s influence reach?

Ready to taste some great pairings and learn the science behind matching beer with food?

Join us for an in-depth guided tasting led by one of our brewers exploring the chemistry of great beer and cheese pairings. Using sight, aroma, and taste, we’ll identify the dominant compounds in four distinct historical beer styles and discover how they interact with carefully selected cheeses.

The enemy was approaching. The army was ready. Then its commander started vomiting.

According to a medieval chronicler, the sickness was an act. His soldiers scattered, and the Vikings marched on to burn and plunder. For King Æthelred, known to history as “the Unready,” it was another disaster and another reason to wonder whom he could trust…

Three courses. Three IPAs. Three centuries.

Join Good Cheer Brewing and Ninja Tiger for a three-course dining
experience where the story unfolds on your plate, in your glass and
through an engaging historical presentation woven throughout the meal.

Traditional dishes from Bombay and Kolkata meet historical IPAs
re-created from 1823, 1870 and 1990. As you eat and drink, follow
IPA’s remarkable journey: its rise to Victorian export fame, its
near-disappearance and its triumphant return during the craft beer
boom…

Hockey + Beer trivia.

Taste 4 beers covering 200 years of the history of IPA

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Join us for a night of D&D, whether you’re a beginner or an experienced player, we’ve got a table for you. Click for more info.

Learn how two World Wars changed the IPA forever and be entered to win a pair of centre-ice Calgary Flames tickets for the game later that day.

Five beers. Ninety minutes. A taste of fermentation’s wild side.

Join Good Cheer Brewing and Edmonton’s Blind Enthusiasm on Tuesday, November 10, for a guided exploration of spontaneous and mixed fermentation—where wild microorganisms, oak barrels and time create extraordinary flavours.

Across five tasting pours, discover how these beers develop their character, from bright acidity and delicate fruit notes to earthy complexity and a dry, wine-like finish. Learn what separates spontaneous from mixed fermentation, how barrels shape a beer, and why blending is as much an art as brewing.

Join us for some great brews, get the chance to win a pair of centre-ice Calgary Flames tickets, and learn about the 270-year history of the India Pale Ale. We’ll have four IPAs on tap spanning the years 1823-2010 and plenty of other beers, like a Danish Export lager re-created from the 1890s.

See you then!

Good Cheer Brewing

1220 20 Ave SE, Calgary

Terrorists aren't born extremists. They come to embrace ideologies that justify violence and, in some cases, even self-sacrifice.

Join us for a fascinating evening exploring the psychology of radicalisation. Drawing on the latest research in terrorism studies, this talk examines how extremist beliefs take hold, why they're so persuasive, and what can be done to stop the process of radicalisation before it ends in violence.

Halloween costume contest!

Win Flames tickets.

Get 10% off for wearing a costume.

Levitating beds. Dishes flying from cupboards. Laughing red demons and angels descending from the ceiling.

In 2017–2018, sociologist Dr. David Aveline travelled across Canada interviewing people convinced they had encountered ghosts. On the eve of Halloween, join us at Good Cheer Brewing as he shares their extraordinary accounts and explores how people make sense of experiences that seem impossible.

What did they see? Why are they so certain? And what can their stories tell us about belief?

After hearing it all, Aveline remains a skeptic, but one with plenty of stories to tell.

Come make your own hand-bound journal/sketchbook while learning about some of the most famous hand-bound books ever made - medieval illuminated manuscripts.

Prof. Peter Houston, an archivist at Mount Royal University, will be in to talk about the manuscript collection he’s building at the Mount Royal Archives, how these incredible books were made, and why they matter.

While you listen to Peter, Redge Dole will lead you in a 2 hour workshop to make your own hand-bound book.

Join us at noon for a medieval festival featuring three medieval ale re-creations, knights in armour, armoured combat demonstrations, and medieval crafts.

Learn about life in Europe one thousand years ago with short presentations about medieval brewing and society.

Feeling tough? Armour up and fight a knight to help raise money for the Silver Gryphons, the group putting on the combat demonstration (you’ll need to sign a waver and fight the knight before you start drinking the ales…).

We’ll be pouring our Norwegian Råøl (raw ale) from the 10th century, a Carolingian ale from the 9th century, and a gruit from roughly the same period.

Tickets are $15 and include a pint of medieval ale and a donation to support the Silver Gryphons.

Venez passer une soirée conviviale 100 % en français chez Good Cheer Brewing, en collaboration avec Apéro 1872 ! Le vendredi 23 octobre, testez vos connaissances sur le vin, la bière et la culture française lors d’un trivia dans une ambiance détendue. L’accueil commence à 18 h 30 avec le brasseur, puis le trivia débute à 19 h, avec des prix à gagner. Réservez votre place en préachetant une boisson au prix de 10 $, taxes et pourboire inclus. Que vous soyez francophone, francophile ou simplement à la recherche d’une occasion de pratiquer votre français autour d’un verre, venez jouer, échanger et vous amuser avec nous à Good Cheer Brewing, 1220 20 Avenue SE, Calgary.

Join us for an evening exploring some of the famous Belgian beers produced by Lindemans Brewery alongside carefully selected food pairings. You’ll get to take home your own 120ml stemmed Lindemans tasting glass at the end of the night.

In 2018, behavioural ecologist Jonathan Pruitt was at the top of his field, holding a prestigious Canada 150 Research Chair at McMaster University. Two years later, discoveries about his research would unravel that reputation and reveal an extraordinary case of scientific fraud.

I’ll share how I and other researchers uncovered the problems, what it was like to question the work of a prominent scientist, and what I learned along the way. Together, we’ll consider what this case tells us about trust, accountability and how to keep scientific research trustworthy.

This talk is presented by Dr. Jeremy William Fox, a professor of Biology at the University of Calgary.