Join a one-hour guided tasting featuring six historical beer re-creations at North America’s only brewery dedicated to reproducing historical beers.
Travel through 1,000 years of brewing history - from Viking-inspired ales and medieval brews to porters, IPAs, and Belgian classics - and discover how beer evolved alongside cultures, trade, and everyday life.
Your tasting is led by Good Cheer's owner, a former university lecturer turned brewer, who combines storytelling, history, and brewing to create an experience unlike a traditional brewery tour.
Your experience includes:
Six guided beer tastings
A one-hour historical journey through brewing
Small groups (maximum 12 guests)
Led by the brewery owner
Newsletter subscribers are invited to exclusive guided strong beer tastings at 18h00 and 19h00 on Thursday, July 9 featuring:
-Triple IPA (9%)
-Abbey Tripel (9.5%)
-Bourbon Barrel Maple Imperial Stout (10%)
-English Stock Ale (11%).
Tickets are $25 and tastings last 30 minutes.
Tickets are valid for either session.
Join us for a guided blind tasting experience that will challenge the way you think about beer - and perhaps much more.
You'll sample six beers with your eyes closed and try to identify what you're drinking before comparing notes with the people around you. Some answers may surprise you. Others may leave you wondering how two people can experience the very same thing so differently.
As the evening unfolds, we'll explore the science of perception, expectation, and taste. Why do labels, colours, styles, and even names influence what we think we're experiencing? How much of what we taste is actually on our tongue, and how much is in our mind?
Part tasting, part social experiment, this is a fun and thought-provoking evening that reveals just how differently we can perceive the world around us.
No beer expertise required. Just curiosity.
Two sessions: 12:30 and 15:00
Celebrate the longest day of the year.
Across Scandinavia, midsummer has long been a season of gathering, food, music, and celebration. It's a moment to enjoy community during the brightest days of summer.
Join us for an evening inspired by Nordic midsummer traditions featuring Scandinavian food and a beer lineup celebrating northern European brewing heritage.
Featured beers include Nordic Farmhouse Ale, our 1896 Danish Lager, Icelandic stout and Gotlandsdricka, a traditional farmhouse ale from Sweden with roots stretching back centuries. Traditional scandinavian food available for purchase.
Expect long tables, patio atmosphere, good food, and good company.
Bring friends. Bring family. Stay awhile.
Family friendly. Dog friendly patio + parking lot celebration.
Date: Friday, June 19
Time: from 6pm to midnight
Tickets: $10 (includes a pint of your choice)
Location: Good Cheer Brewing
Our 1990 West Coast IPA recreates that first wave of craft brewing: crisp, piney, and firmly bitter, capturing the moment IPA was reinvented for a new generation.
This beer uses 100% of its hops from the incomparable Myrtle Meadows Hop Farm in Pemberton BC. We select not just the varieties but the specific hop plants we use for this beer, creating a hop blend you won’t find anywhere else.
6.5% alc/vol
473ml
Roasted barley gives flavours of coffee, toast, dark bread crust, and bitterness.
A proper Irish stout from the 1950s was brewed for long evenings and full pints, not tiny glasses and ceremony. It was everyday beer. A working person’s pint.
Dry stout belonged to labourers, longshoremen, musicians, clerks, pensioners, and men standing shoulder-to-shoulder at crowded bars beneath yellowed nicotine ceilings. It was a beer for long conversations, slow evenings, and familiar faces.
3.8% alc/vol
473ml
By 1870, IPA was not just a drink but a symbol of British progress and pride. The Industrial Revolution propelled breweries to new heights.
The great Burton breweries, Bass, Allsopp, and Worthington, had refined the style into something precise and consistent: a pale beer with firm bitterness and a dry, elegant finish. This was the era in which IPA became a standard, not an experiment. It was a beer defined as much by balance and drinkability as by strength and preservation.
Our 1870 IPA reflects this moment: bright, structured, and composed, capturing the style at the height of its Victorian refinement.
7.6% alc/vol
473ml
The beer style grisette takes its name from the women in Industrial Revolution France and Belgium who were among the first to work outside the home. At the same time, it recalls the setting of their day. The grey stone of mining towns and the drab, coal-clotted streets of the Industrial Revolution that made grey the colour of urban life.
Like the spirit of the grisettes, perhaps, the drink provides a sharp contrast to its dull surroundings. Pale golden, light, and effervescent, it’s a kind of sunlight in a glass. The opposite of an industrial pub, subterranean mine, or coal smudged city. Perhaps that’s why it was so popular among the coal miners who spent long days underground harvesting the fuel Europe relied on.
Today, as in centuries past, we can enjoy it after a hard day’s work.
3.5% alc/vol
473ml
This is a re-creation of a 500-year old beer that was Martin Luther’s favourite.
Fresh bread and expressive hops made this beer stand out 500 years ago. At 6.5% it was stronger than many beers on the market so it could stand up to the stress of overseas export.
6.5%alc/vol
473ml
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, July 21 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.
Along the way we’ll explore:
• Why monks brewed beer in the first place
• How monasteries became centres of brewing excellence
• The difference between Trappist and Abbey beer
• The unique rules that govern Trappist brewing today
• The stories behind famous monasteries like Westmalle, Chimay, and Orval
This talk is informal, fascinating, and designed for both beer lovers and history enthusiasts alike.
Seats are limited.
Reserve yours by pre-purchasing a Trappist beer flight to enjoy during the talk. We have Chimay Blue, Chimay 175 (anniversary beer), Westmalle Duo, and St. Bernardus ABT 12.
Grab a drink, take a seat, and discover the extraordinary story behind the monks who brew.
Tuesday, July 21, 6pm, Good Cheer Brewing 1220 20 Ave SE.
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