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Tickets For July’s “Brewery & The Beast” Food Festival Just Went On Sale

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Meat and beer-centric food festival Brewery & The Beast is set to return on Sunday, July 27th from 1pm to 4pm. Hosted outdoors once again at Concord Pacific Place (88 Pacific Boulevard), it will see dozens of BC’s best kitchens BBQing, searing, smoking, and otherwise serving the meatiest of morsels alongside ciders from Left Field, wines from Mission Hill, and an assortment of beers and sodas from Phillips. Need a reminder of the awesomeness that went down? Watch the video below…

Tickets to Brewery & The Beast are $89 + tax and went on sale this morning. Prices are inclusive of all food and beverage offerings, and are available for purchase online here. We’ll publish all of the details on this year’s event shortly, but wanted to give this brief heads up to those of our readers who like a sure thing and want to secure their tickets early. Fair warning: this will sell out!

Niwa Heads to Hazelmere Farm for a Mid-Summer Feast, July 25th

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A Neighbourhood-Wide Invitation to Wander Chinatown

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