Indie Alehouse Brewing Co.

Brewpub in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Indie Ale House - Out of business

Established in 2012

Contact
2876 Dundas St West, Toronto, M6P 1Y8, Canada
Subsidiaries
Indie Alehouse Brewing Co. owns 1 brewery:
Description
Since opening our doors in October 2012, we have been working to bring new and exciting flavourful beers to our community. We like to experiment, be adventurous, and break old traditional brewing rules. As a result, we have made it our mission create a diverse product roster that includes deliciously easy drinking beers that everyone can appreciate as well as hard-to-find ales that leave a lasting impression. We’ve spent years developing a variety of audacious brews that are hoppier, fruitier, aged longer (and in weirder barrels), etc. Let’s put it this way, if we can go overboard on some element of beermaking, we generally will.

We take our passion beyond beer as well in a quest to ‘Live Indie’. From a spectacular and carefully curated house-made menu to lively events, we’ve turned our creative and individualistic brewing methods into a lifestyle that reflects our mantra of fun-loving independence.

We started off as a small, yet foolhardy bunch in a quaint and – we’ll admit – elementary brewpub located in Toronto’s West End. After several years of refining processes and working with a wonderfully dedicated team of beer lovers, we have been fortunate enough to grow our Junction-located brewpub and bottle shop into a bustling (albeit ambient and welcoming) space. We’ve also opened up a second brewing space, tasting room and bottle shop in partnership with Eataly at the heart of downtown Toronto. We’re grateful for how far we’ve come and we have no other goals but to keep on making bold beer and continue to serve excellence.

The bottom line is - we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to taste, enjoy, and have the choice of better food and better beer. It’s who we are. It’s why we’re here.

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8/10
A deep dark stout with a thin brown head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, licorice, alcohol warmth, light vanilla, very nice. In mouth, sweet chocolate malt with dark fruits, light vanilla, light grainy notes, alcohol warmth, very nice.
Tried on 17 Feb 2022 at 23:42

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle at Weathered 2022, Vancouver
Dark brown colour, almost black. Chocolate, spices, cinnamon, dark caramel, sweet, almost syrupy, but with strong alcohol to limit that.
Powerful, very good.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Feb 2022 at 07:52

6.9/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle at Weathered 2022. Near black with minimal beige head. Coffee, roast malt, mild caramel, decent. Not quite stroop waffle, but enjoyable.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2022 at 21:28

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle at Weathered 2022, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma brings out bright coffee and maple syrup, with some subdued waffles. Flavour is along the same lines, with waffles, maple syrup, and coffee. Sweet and lacking complexity, but it's pleasant enough. Fun sweet pastry stout.
Tried from Bottle on 22 Jan 2022 at 08:27

7.1/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
500ml bottle. (Clear?) Darkest brown colour with ruby shimmer and average, frothy, moderately lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Leafy, earthy coffee aroma, notes of instant coffee, mocha, roasty dark malty hints of dark chocolate, mocha chocolate. Taste is bitter roasty, dark malty, slightly diluted notes of mocha, instant coffee, hints of burnt caramel, dark chocolate, some roasty and grassy hoppy bitterness, a light fruity touch of unripe cherry, watery rose hip tea. Watery texture, dry palate, medium, prickly carbonation. Quite light and watery; nice coffee flavours don't find enough body to become adequately embedded - OK.
Tried from Bottle on 13 Dec 2021 at 21:02

7/10
Tried from Can on 10 Dec 2021 at 20:11

6/10
A hazed golden ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity malt with light grassy hops, light mineral notes, light citrus, OK. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, light grassy characters, pleasant. On tap at Cheshire Cat.
Tried from Draft on 09 Nov 2021 at 21:49

4.9/10 Appearance 2 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Bottle, courtesy of Ryan
Very dull blond colour, almost light brown, doesn't look good. Mild peely and resinous hop aroma. Lean body, nothing to remember about malt and hop, and definitively there is some butter.
Not good.
Tried from Bottle on 09 Nov 2021 at 18:35

5.6/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
500ml @ Alex's shared with Ryan. Appearance: dirty straw with a white head. Aroma: some melon, sweetness, generic fruity character. Taste: watery, harsh, bitter. Overall: there is definitely almost nothing good here. Complete meh.
Tried on 06 Nov 2021 at 04:06

5.8/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6
Poured from 500mL bottle. Hazy, dull brownish yellow with small white head. A bit of honeydew melon with old tasting hops and diacetyl. Disappointing butter bomb.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Nov 2021 at 04:04