Edmonton International Beerfest
Edmonton's International Beerfest (formerly the Edmonton Beer Festival) is an annual two-day beer and food festival held in early spring in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The festival allows patrons to sample beers, lagers and ales from around the globe brought in by different vendors, microbreweries, and pubs from across Alberta and Canada. The first event in 2006 sold out and over 700 patrons were turned away at the door. As a result, the organizers relocated the festival to a 40,000 sq foot hall within the Shaw Conference Centre. Since March 2007, the event has been held  annually at the Shaw Conference Centre in downtown Edmonton. Edmonton's International Beerfest has won Vue Weekly's Golden Fork Awards for best Beverage Festival/Event in both 2014 and 2015. Beerfest has received runner up in the same category in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Each year approximately 25,000 people attend the event over its two-day span. This Beerfest went on hiatus in 2020 & will return in 2021.