SPRING FESTIVALS UPDATE REGARDING COVID-19 VIRUS

August 10, 2020 – The Calgary International Beerfest and Edmonton Craft Beer Festival have been moved to May of 2021

There is a lot of uncertainty in the world right now. The team at Alberta Beer Festivals has been working tirelessly to continue supporting the craft beer and spirit industry we all love. We’ve also worked with different levels of government, our venues, and an event task force to find ways to host our events safely. Though we love attending our festivals as much as anyone, and it saddens us to make this announcement, we have decided that due to the nature of our events – we must put the health and safety of people first. As such, the Calgary International Beerfest and Edmonton Craft Beer Festival have been moved to May of 2021. 

This is an unprecedented situation and we are working hard to balance finding solutions that allow our festivals to have a future beyond the pandemic and those of our community. As such, we will honour all tickets and tokens purchased for this year at next year’s festival. The tickets you have will work at next year’s festival and there is no need to do anything. 

We appreciate your patience and support. The team at Alberta Beer Festivals.

 

April 22, 2020 – Do you have tickets to either the Calgary International Beerfest and/or Edmonton Craft Beer Festival? 

You have several options to choose from in regards to your tickets:

1. Use your tickets as is at the event which has been rescheduled (Calgary Sept 18/19 and Edmonton Sept 25/26) just bring your tickets to the rescheduled events!
2. Transfer your tickets to a friend – tickets and tokens are fully transferable – you don’t have to do anything – just share the PDFs with someone and make their day/week/month/year/decade…..
3. Use your ticket at an alternate city in the fall (ie. You have Calgary tickets but want to switch to Edmonton event in September because that weekend works better or you have Edmonton tickets but want to switch to Calgary tickets because that weekend works better) – Please contact us if you wish to switch cities.
4. Transfer your tickets for this year’s festival to our 2021 festival – Please contact us if you wish to switch years.
5. Donate your ticket money to help keep our festivals alive.

Thank you for sticking with us – your patience and support mean the world to the ABF team!

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APRIL 17, 2020 – Calgary International Beerfest & Edmonton Craft Beer Festival Ticket Information

ALL tickets and tokens purchased for the Calgary International Beerfest or Edmonton Craft Beer Festival dates in May are fully transferable to the rescheduled dates in September with no additional processes required, just bring your tickets to the events in the fall. Tickets are fully transferable should you wish to give them to someone else.

Please only contact us only if you wish to have your tickets switched to next year’s 2021 Calgary International Beerfest or 2021 Edmonton Craft Beer Festival.

Thank you for sticking with us – your patience and support mean the world to the ABF team!

 

APRIL 3, 2020 – Alberta Beer Festivals Update – ABFMarket.com & Festival Rescheduling

Thank you to everyone for their patience as we navigate these unprecedented times. The team at Alberta Beer Festivals has been working tirelessly to do everything they can to support the community they love in a safe and healthy way. So much has happened since our last update that we wanted to update the community about things ABF has going on. Moving forward, you can expect an update again at the beginning of August regarding our events.

 

1) ABFMarket.com – Help us help them! ABF believes it is in times of great challenge that communities come together. Buy a gift card for one (or more) of the many great breweries, distilleries, cideries, meaderies, or eateries we love – and help them get through this difficult time! The gift cards can be for yourself –  so you have something to look forward to – or it can be a gift – (the pandemic didn’t cancel birthdays – just birthday parties…). Every click at ABFMarket.com helps ensure our whole community can come out of this stronger!

 

2) Spring Festival Updates – Our greatest priority is the health and safety of our volunteers, attendees, exhibitors and team. At this time, we have made the decision to reschedule both the Calgary International Beerfest and Edmonton Craft Beer Festival to the dates and venues we had reserved for our fall events (The Mashing Calgary & Edmonton). That means we have rescheduled the events to the following dates:

a. Calgary International Beerfest – September 18th & 19th, at the Grandstand on Stampede Park

b. Edmonton Craft Beer Festival – September 25th & 26th, at the Butterdome on University of Alberta Campus

 

A few additional pieces of information that we want to share:

a. All tickets and tokens sold for our spring events will be honoured at the events now rescheduled for the fall. Tickets are fully transferable should you wish to give them to someone else. We ask for your patience regarding tickets as we are a small, local company that depends on your support to survive this very challenging time. Alternately, we can switch your tickets to tickets for 2021 events should that be your preference.

b. Our Mashing events will be back for 2021 – this is a one year hiatus due to exceptional events.

c. The Banff Craft Beer Festival is tentatively scheduled for November 26-28th.

d. Should the dates we have rescheduled the spring events to prove not to be appropriate for large public gatherings, ABF has reserved dates for both shows in the following months of 2020 to ensure we will be able to host the events at some point should an additional schedule change need to happen.

 

Additional Alternate Dates for the CALGARY INTERNATIONAL BEERFEST

October 16/17 

November 13/14

December 4/5

 

Additional Alternate Dates for the EDMONTON CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL

October 23/24 

November 27/28 

December 11/12 

 

Thank you for sticking with us – your patience and support mean the world to the ABF team! Should you have any questions, please contact us at info@albertabeerfestivals.com.

 

Sincerely, 

Bill Robinson

President Alberta Beer Festivals

On behalf of the entire ABF team.

 

MARCH 18, 2020 – Spring Festivals Update Regarding COVID-19

Alberta Beer Festivals (ABF) is carefully observing developments in regard to COVID-19 and takes the health & safety of its attendees, exhibitors, volunteers and team very seriously.  We will continue to monitor the situation and will follow the recommendations of health officials.

At this time we are moving forward with plans for both the Calgary International Beerfest May 1st and 2nd and the Edmonton Craft Beer Festival May 29th and 30th. However, if required to postpone either festival, ABF has back up dates in place and all purchased tickets will be honoured for the rescheduled dates. 

As the situation evolves, ABF will continue to keep you posted with any updates or changes including an update in early April regarding both its spring festivals. Please take care of yourselves, each other and be well! 

Should you have any questions, please contact us at info@albertabeerfestivals.com.

Sincerely,

The ABF Team