Junction Craft Brewing

Microbrewery in Toronto, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 2011

Contact
150 Symes Road, Toronto, M6N 0B1, Canada
Subsidiaries
Junction Craft Brewing owns 2 breweries:
Description
Calling West Toronto's Junction neighbourhood home, founders Tom Paterson and Doug Pengelly started Junction Craft Brewery (JCB) in 2011 with a mission to create the highest-quality, hand-crafted beers. Since that time the brewery has grown and expanded its product offering adding great new styles and brands available across the province.

In 2018 the business moved to its current home located in a former City of Toronto 1930's art-deco incinerator, affectionately known as 'The Destructor". Decommissioned in the 80's, used for raves in the 90's and beautifully restored in 2018, the award winning heritage building is the perfect spot to enjoy a part of Toronto's past, hangout in our intimate yet spacious taproom, grab a brewery tour and of course sample great, fresh beer.

In 2019 JCB continued its expansion adding St. Mary Axe and socially responsible beer brand Caribru to its family of products.

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6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask Days 2013.
Sweet bready, almost fruity malts. Light grassy, papery hops. Solid carb, good mouthfeel. Bready finish, good cereals.

Tried from Cask on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:38


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at the beerbistro
Really nice piney, citrusy aroma. Great malts, bready, earthy.
A perfect balance. Medium bitterness, great citrucy finish. Top shelf amber ale. Reminds me of what mill street tankhouse used to be.

Tried from Draft on 28 Feb 2025 at 05:34


6

Fairly juicy brew. Mildly sweet malt, overlayed with citrus, some tropical fruits, resin hops and.... bitterness. Far too much bitterness. Just dominates the finish on this beer. You can see what they were hoping for, but man they just didn't pull out of the dive on this one. Can from the LCBO.

Tried from Can on 15 Aug 2024 at 00:01


5.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Can from the LCBO. Murky yellow orange with a one finger off white head that leaves some stringy lace. Nose is bready malts with some grass and some peach. Flavour has some mango, peach and bread with a metallic aftertaste. Mouth is medium with average carbonation. 6/3/6-/3-/11

Tried from Can on 02 Apr 2023 at 00:29


7.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Pours a fairly clean, light-golden colour with a big creamy-frothy warm cap, good retention and leaving some nice full creamy lacing. Spicy Saaz hops over cereal malts for aromas. The hops in the taste really stand out, creating some bitterness and a dry finish. This cuts the sweetness of the malts. A pretty hoppy Pilsner.

Tried on 03 Aug 2021 at 04:57


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Pretty hazy golden-yellow colour with a frothy slight off-white cap, good stay and light foam lacing. Fairly grassy aromas from the hops with some citrus zest notes. Some particles start floating around. The mouthfeel is juicy, but a big dry-spicy finish happens quickly. Freshly zested citrus peel bitterness in the taste. The base is juicy, but the hops take control all-around, so based on NEIPA, but really a good hazy IPA with bite.

Tried on 18 Dec 2020 at 23:53


5.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Can that pours a light hazy yellow colour with a frothy-bubbly off-white warm head, decent stay and a little foam lacing. Kind of a hoppy nose with mild grass, sourness and spiciness. It does kind of feel like this one has very light infection with the sour notes I am getting. Luckily, it does not linger on the tongue too long. Some mild bitterness, dryness and grain is left. Says 5% ABV on their site, but can shows with a sticker from LCBO at 4.3% ABV, so not sure if this is a bad batch, but still fed it to us.

Tried from Can on 14 Oct 2020 at 02:03


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

On tap at Junction, pours a hazy copper golden with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of lactose upfront, with a bit of rotting fruits. Flavour is full of weirdly fungal, somewhat rotting fruits, and lacto. Why make this? This is just not pleasant.

Tried from Draft on 19 Oct 2019 at 18:05


5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5

On nitro tap at Junction, pours black with a frothy beige head. Aroma brings out smooth oats and a hint of earthy cocoa. Flavour is smooth enough, with notes of dry oats, bitter earthy coffee, and a hint of cocoa. Bone dry and earthy, with little flavour depth. Drinkable.

Tried from Draft on 19 Oct 2019 at 18:01


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

On tap at Junction, pours a hazy copper orange with a small white head. Aroma brings out overripe stone fruits, bitter citrus hops and bready malt. Flavour is full of overripe fruits and bitter citrus hops. Jagged and lacking cohesion, there's something quite wrong here. Not good.

Tried from Draft on 19 Oct 2019 at 17:58