Pure Canadiana: B.C. beer keg curling event goes viral [Video]

A Vancouver Island curling club is going viral on Tiktok, and not for throwing rocks.

Instead, it’s a video of steel beer kegs sliding down the sheet that’s blowing up the internet, racking up more than 4 million views in just three days.

The Comox Valley Curling Centre held its fifth beer keg curling event last week, an annual event that raises money for various local charities.

The curling centre goes through plenty of beer in a season, and keeps their kegs cool by stacking them along the wall inside the rink area. One year as they were closing down for the season, inspiration struck as general manager Keith Parry was looking at the stacks.

“I thought, ‘I wonder how well a keg would curl on the ice, because it has a similar round bottom like a curling stone,’” he said. “We tried it and an empty beer keg curls remarkably well.”

That birthed the annual tournament, a partnership with a …