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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6/10
Bottle from Indie. Taste delivers quite a bit green oak, mild vinous fruit, a touch of lemon, a little sock funk. The funk lingers into a touch of bitterness, but really, it's green wood that runs this beer as it rolls over everything throughout.
Tried from Bottle on 06 Oct 2023 at 20:52

7/10
Light, clean biscult malt, slightly sweet, mild citrus fruitiness, with a slight bitter on the finish. Lingering bitterness. Decent. Me:3.5 Mrs she likes this one
Tried on 07 Sep 2023 at 01:21

7.2/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 8
Hazy golden-orange with a frothy-bubbly white head, average retention and some light foamy lacing streaks left. Orange and pineapple notes for aromas with hints of mango. The mangoes take a bit over in the taste, adding some nice fruitiness over the oranges. The mouthfeel is juicy with a touch of dryness in the end. A nice zesty zing appears in there.
Tried on 13 Aug 2023 at 04:23

6.6/10
Pretty bland with hints of orange
Tried from Can on 31 May 2023 at 20:15

7/10
Iryna M. За твоё здоровье! С двух рук! По макидонски!
Tried from Bottle on 23 May 2023 at 20:27

7.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 8
500ml bottle. Opalescent, redd-ish brown colour with small to average, frothy, half-way lasting, minimally lacing, beige head. Vinous fruity and slightly woody aroma, notes of blue grapes, blue grape juice, hints of red wine, Sherry, Port, blue berries, some oak, caramel malty background, whiffs of leather and morello. Taste is sweet-and-sour caramel malty and vinous fruity, slightly woody, minimally lactic and tangy, notes of blue grapes, red wine, some oak, leather, morello, black pepper. Minimally oily, acid thinned, watery texture, minimally astringent palate, medium, scattered, prickly carbonation. Meets the style adequately, but lacks some more depth and complexity for perfection - enjoyable.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Apr 2023 at 16:17

7/10
On tap at Indie. Resin, perfume, hay malts. Bitterness lingers, a little sock and a little dust on the finish.
Tried from Draft on 23 Jan 2023 at 02:30

7/10
On tap at the Indie. Stronge booze notes, toasted malts, mildly sweet, Cocoa, the cherry comes through with some cranberry. Solid
Tried from Draft on 23 Jan 2023 at 02:11

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tap: Poured a black color stout with a large brown foamy head with OK retention and some lacing. Aroma of chocolate notes with some peanut butter and light fruity notes. Taste is also a mix of chocolate notes with some fruity notes and peanut butter with some residual sugar notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Enjoyable even though I am not a big fan of peanut butter beers.
Tried from Draft on 05 Jan 2023 at 23:02

7.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Sample (thanks fonefan!). Black colour, small brown head. Aroma is nutty and some fruity tones with mild chocolaty tones. Flavour is toasted. some fruity tones, nutty notes with some slight smoked tones.
Tried on 24 Dec 2022 at 00:08