Flying Monkeys
Microbrewery
in
Barrie,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery
Established in 2004
Contact
Description
The Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery leads the Craft Beer Revolution in Ontario. Brewing radical Beers and creative Ales right on the waterfront in downtown Barrie since 2004, the Flying Monkeys was the first Ontario Craft Brewery to truly recognize the need to overthrow the conservative regime of macro-brews and timid small batch taste-a-likes and create a new Culture of Craft Brewing in our province.
Casting off the comfortable and respectable cloak of the Robert Simpson Brewing Company, and revealing our true selves as the Flying Monkeys late in 2008, we gave rise to the the collective creativity of our Brewery and committed our Brewhouse to the adventurous longings of the growing culture of Craft Beer Lovers in Ontario.
Casting off the comfortable and respectable cloak of the Robert Simpson Brewing Company, and revealing our true selves as the Flying Monkeys late in 2008, we gave rise to the the collective creativity of our Brewery and committed our Brewhouse to the adventurous longings of the growing culture of Craft Beer Lovers in Ontario.
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
a: rich dark brown coloured body | thick lighter brown head
a: chocolate (duh!) | rich coffee | earth
f: roasted grains | raisins | sweet finish
t: oatmeal | toffee | hidden alcohol
o: rich malts throughout | nice complex brown sugars | much better than expected - nice in Winter, walking in the snow!
16 ounce can | Stadium Market: Ann Arbor, Michigan | 29-December-2025 | US$1,99!!! | Canned: 11-November-2024 | sampled: 01-January-2026 while getting ready to go see the Red Wings play the Penguins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with my family of five
a: chocolate (duh!) | rich coffee | earth
f: roasted grains | raisins | sweet finish
t: oatmeal | toffee | hidden alcohol
o: rich malts throughout | nice complex brown sugars | much better than expected - nice in Winter, walking in the snow!
16 ounce can | Stadium Market: Ann Arbor, Michigan | 29-December-2025 | US$1,99!!! | Canned: 11-November-2024 | sampled: 01-January-2026 while getting ready to go see the Red Wings play the Penguins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with my family of five
Tried
from Can
from
Stadium Market
on 01 Jan 2026
at 19:29
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Dark brown. Fairly thick head. The aroma is just a lot of that artificial orange flavour from the orange chocolate candy. Light body. Thin, a bit fizzy. Decent bitterness. More artificial orange. Not much to this.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Dec 2025
at 02:50
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Pours a clean (very slight unfiltered with wee particles), golden colour with a white frothy white cap, decent stay and some mild wet-soapy, tiny lacing spots all-around. Malty aromas that are quite mild for the alcohol content, with cereal notes, minerals and a touch of hops. The taste, again is smooth, but has a tad more punch than the nose. Cereal malts, some light sweetness, mineral notes and decent grassy hop bitterness that lingers. Good dryness that cuts what is usually a thicker, syrupy brew. This is a really smooth, strong lager that hits the spot nicely.
Tried
from Can
from
LCBO #624 - Innes Rd. & Tenth Line
on 01 Dec 2025
at 02:13
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 10
Overall 5.5
Reddish brown with a medium sized foamy tan head. Strong cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger with caramel and booziness underneath. Very long finish. Moderately full bodied.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Nov 2025
at 20:44
7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Tried
from Can
on 16 Nov 2025
at 21:22
7/10
Juicy, easy drinking NEIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Nov 2025
at 16:41
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5.5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
473mL can, pours a cloudy muddled orange with a small white head. Nose is pretty ridiculous, with plenty of orange creamsicle, resinous hops, stone fruits, and some earthiness. Flavour is fairly egregious, with tons of artificial orange creamsicle, lots of sugars, some resinous hops that are buried, and stone fruit pith. What a terrible idea and pretty badly executed. What is the target market for nonsense like this?
Tried
from Can
from
LCBO #751 - Bathurst & Lakeshore
on 08 Nov 2025
at 23:06
7.8/10
Heavily spiced but that's how I like em
Tried
on 31 Oct 2025
at 21:55
5.8/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 5
Overall 5
A little off on this one. Almost tastes like bretta or something in the background. Kind of a cat piss aroma. Pours hazy golden with ok head. Astringent afterwards. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Oct 2025
at 22:03
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Active white head on a pink and peach body. Zesty nose with currants, citrus and slightly sour fruit. Lots of fruit notes going on here - currents, cranberry, orange and tropical accents. Quite sweet, a touch of sour and a lasting tartness.
Tried
on 23 Sep 2025
at 20:15