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Upcoming Events
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. Kids get in free.
WAIT! There’s more! This is also the launch of DogDaysYYC, Calgary’s first hot dog festival. We’ll be serving three kinds of sausages - the currywurst, and Icelandic hot dog and a pretzel dog. $1 from the sale of each goes to the Pet Access League Society.
Event Schedule
2:00 - Session opens
2:10 - Opening pour ceremony and dinner launch
2:30 - Pretzel toss contest (kids and adults)
3:00 - 10 minute talk on the history of bock beer and weizen
3:30 - Stein holding competition
4:00 - Dog costume contest
4:30 - Beer garden trivia contest
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.
He was the leading ace at Dunkirk, shooting down multiple aircraft in just days as Allied troops fled the beaches. In the Battle of Britain, he became Canada’s top-scoring pilot. By 23, he had destroyed 19 enemy aircraft and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, the first Canadian in the war to do so.
But behind the victories was a restless, complicated young man. He was charismatic, impulsive, and searching for his place in the world.
This talk draws on rare photographs and personal memories from the McKnight family archive to explore both the legend and the person: the ace, and the man he was becoming before he disappeared over the English Channel in 1941, aged just 23.
Join us at 6:30pm on Tuesday, May 26.
The talk is free but you can reserve a spot by making a donation to the Historical Society of Alberta (see below).
Since 1907, the Historical Society of Alberta has supported individual researchers, authors and those who wish to know more about our history. They advocate for Alberta’s history and work in partnership with other like-minded organizations and groups.
This March, the Government of Alberta cut the funding ($76,000) for this 119 year-old organization.
You can help.
We’re hosting monthly talks delivered by members of the Historical Society on the last Tuesday of each month. The talks are free, but you can reserve a spot by making a donation below for $2 - $20.
If you’d like a tax receipt the minimum donation is $25. Please email nathan@goodcheer.beer with the subject line HISTORICAL TAX RECEIPT.
Celebrate Norway’s Seventeenth of May (Syttende Mai) with an afternoon of traditional Norwegian food and drink. Come on a journey guided by a Scandinavian culinary artisan and a brewer as we travel from the age of longships to today.
Savour golden heart-shaped waffles with Norway’s famous brown cheese, the classic street food of Pølse med Lompe, and the crackling, succulent Ribbe - feasts that echo from Viking halls to modern tables. Delight in an epic medieval Norwegian ale, a Raøl, reborn from a recipe once lost to time.
$25 gets you a sample of each of the three dishes on offer and one taster glass of ale (additional beer available for purchase).
May 17 at noon.
“These events were fantastic and I’ll come back every day. 100% of my calories now come from cheese and beer.”
-An imaginary customer (we haven’t held any of these events yet…)
If you have any questions about these events please reach out to us.