A fun night of beer, tacos, stories, and trivia.

Bring your friends, build a team, test your knowledge, and discover something new.

Each session includes a short talk, trivia, and tacos, all alongside Calgary's most unique beer experience.

10 questions per round. Winning team takes home a prize.

Two sessions:
🕠 5:30 PM
🕖 7:15 PM

A fun night of beer, tacos, stories, and trivia.

Bring your friends, build a team, test your knowledge, and discover something new.

Each session includes a short talk, trivia, and tacos, all alongside Calgary's most unique beer experience.

10 questions per round. Winning team takes home a prize.

Two sessions:
🕠 5:30 PM
🕖 7:15 PM

A fun night of beer, tacos, stories, and trivia.

Bring your friends, build a team, test your knowledge, and discover something new.

Each session includes a short talk, trivia, and tacos, all alongside Calgary's most unique beer experience.

10 questions per round. Winning team takes home a prize.

Two sessions:
🕠 5:30 PM
🕖 7:15 PM

A fun night of beer, tacos, stories, and trivia.

Bring your friends, build a team, test your knowledge, and discover something new.

Each session includes a short talk, trivia, and tacos, all alongside Calgary's most unique beer experience.

10 questions per round. Winning team takes home a prize.

Two sessions:
🕠 5:30 PM
🕖 7:15 PM

A fun night of beer, tacos, stories, and trivia.

Bring your friends, build a team, test your knowledge, and discover something new.

Each session includes a short talk, trivia, and tacos, all alongside Calgary's most unique beer experience.

10 questions per round. Winning team takes home a prize.

Two sessions:
🕠 5:30 PM
🕖 7:15 PM

Join us for a talk exploring the history of Calgary presented in a way you may not have heard of before.

Is Calgary a cowboy town? An oil town? Maybe its something else, or many things.

This is Calgary, from its early history as a fort right up to the present day as seen through the eyes of writers…

Monks have brewed some of the most revered beers in the world for a millenia. For some, like the Trappists, this was not for profit, but to sustain monastic life and support charitable work.

From the quiet abbeys of medieval Europe to the globally celebrated breweries of Belgium and the Netherlands today, Trappist beer represents one of the longest continuous brewing traditions in human history.

A fun night of beer, tacos, stories, and trivia.

Bring your friends, build a team, test your knowledge, and discover something new.

Each session includes a short talk, trivia, and tacos, all alongside Calgary's most unique beer experience.

10 questions per round. Winning team takes home a prize.

Two sessions:
🕠 5:30 PM
🕖 7:15 PM

The War to End All Wars was over. We did it. We won. So let’s party.

Today, we often see the 1920s through an American lens and its portrayal in film and television. There, it was an age of gangsters, speakeasies, fast jazz, scandalous movie idols, relaxed morals, shady stock deals, and a party that seemed like it might never end.

But what was happening here? How loud was Calgary’s roar?

What if you could help shape brewing research?

Project Hop is a new community exploring the science of beer, the influence of ingredients, and the connection between farms and flavour.

Join us as we introduce the project, discuss future research, and begin building our founding Research Council.

A fun night of beer, tacos, stories, and trivia.

Bring your friends, build a team, test your knowledge, and discover something new.

Each session includes a short talk, trivia, and tacos, all alongside Calgary's most unique beer experience.

10 questions per round. Winning team takes home a prize.

Two sessions:
🕠 5:30 PM
🕖 7:15 PM

Come celebrate Icelandic culture in Canada with a specially brewed Icelandic beer, Icelandic food, Icelandic stories and a trivia contest. Family friendly!

The Arctic is no longer remote - it’s strategic.

As global tensions rise, Canada’s North is becoming a focal point for questions of sovereignty, security, and control. While threats through the Arctic have long been part of national defence planning, the region itself is now increasingly at the centre of geopolitical competition with powers like China, Russia and the United States taking a more active interest in the region.

This talk explores how Canada has responded to these challenges since the Second World War and how it is positioning itself today to assert sovereignty and protect its interests in a rapidly changing Arctic. 

Dr. Sam Hossack is a historian and researcher specializing in the Canadian Arctic. Her work examines how governance and security have shaped the North from the 1950s to today. She is a Research Fellow with the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Military, Security, and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary.

Join us for a short talk, trivia with prizes, and tacos, all alongside Calgary’s most unique beer experience. Bring friends, build a team, and spend an evening learning something new, competing for bragging rights, and enjoying great beer.

Explore Denmark through food, beer, and Nordic tradition.

Join us for an afternoon celebrating Danish culture, featuring traditional food, historical brewing, and stories from one of Scandinavia’s great cultural traditions.

The is a free event, pre-purchasing a Trappist beer flight guarantees you a seat.

Monks have brewed some of the most revered beers in the world for a millenia. For some, like the Trappists, this was not for profit, but to sustain monastic life and support charitable work.

From the quiet abbeys of medieval Europe to the globally celebrated breweries of Belgium and the Netherlands today, Trappist beer represents one of the longest continuous brewing traditions in human history.

Join us on Tuesday, June 3 at 6:00 for an engaging and story-driven talk exploring how this remarkable tradition developed. We’ll trace the origins of monastic brewing, the rise of the Trappist orders, and how their disciplined way of life shaped the beers we know today.

Before McKnight Boulevard, there was Willie.

William “Willie” McKnight grew up in Calgary. A brilliant, rebellious young man, known as much for mischief as for talent he walked away from medical school in 1939 to join the Royal Air Force. Within a year, he would become one of Canada’s most remarkable fighter pilots…

Join us for a one hour talk. Entry by donation to the Historical Society of Alberta.

Germany comes to Good Cheer on Saturday, May 23.

Join us for a day of great beer, great food, and fun activities celebrating a country with a legacy of fantastic beers: Germany.

Our special guests Mr. Bretzelking will be preparing currywurst (sausages) and traditional German soft pretzels on-site.

We’ll also be pouring two brand-new feature beers brewed specially for the occasion:

-An Ainpöckischbier, re-created from a 1500s recipe and said to have been Martin Luther’s favourite beer
-A hopfenweisse, a modern hoppy wheat ale

Alongside them, we’ll be featuring rich German bocks, historical smoked beers, and a beer from Weihenstephan, the world’s oldest brewery, founded in 1040.

Bring your kids to participate in the pretzel toss. Bring your dog to participate in a best dressed dog competition. Bring your arms to join you in a stein holding contest!

It’s all happening on Saturday, May 23rd.

Secure your space, tickets are $10 and include a pint of Ainpöckischbier or hopfenweisse.

Buy tickets here: https://www.goodcheer.beer/shop/p/german-beer-day-may-23