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.
Pours an light maroon with pinkish head that reduces to a bare ring quickly. Taste has a punchy sour tang directly pitted again a medium sweetness with the expected lemon citrus and raspberry. The light hat malt is there but gets washed out. It's balance is pretty decent, this is a fun one for a hot day.
500ml at Matt's amenity room. Appearance: brown with a beige head. Aroma: green peppers (people stop aging beer on the coffee beans, just add a coffee), some roasted malts. Taste: coffee, vanilla, some bourbon, quite thin. Overall: well, it's thin, has green peppers, not a good job done in terms of good imperial stout.
Poured from 500mL bottle. Near black with minimal beige head. Chocolate, espresso, touch of vanilla. Quite nice, good flavours, but nothing really blows me away.
Dark brown. Thin head. A bit thin, vanilla is definitely in there, some chocolate and espresso. For me, this hits all the notes, but it hits them in the most basic interpretation of the formula.
500mL bottle, pours a deep dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma brings out toffee, molasses, and espresso. Flavour is full of espresso upfront, with toffee, molasses, and a touch of caramelized brown sugar. Fairly dry, expressing the espresso and molasses on the finish.
Can from the brewery. Cloudy bright blonde, with a finger of pillowy head. Exuberant smells of tropical fruits and resin. Taste comes out fairly light with fairly neutral malt base to support moderate pineapple and resin hops, that fade to a mild biting resin bitterness finish. Solid.