Burdock

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

Established in 2015

Contact
1184 Bloor St W, Toronto, M6H 1N2, Canada
Description
Burdock brewery set up shop in what used to be an old Portuguese chicken restaurant, and they transformed the space into an artist-driven bar/restaurant/music hall/microbrewery run by a group of musicians and music lovers. They offer a rotating list of clean pale ales, complex saisons, crisp pilsners, zippy sours, and beer-wine hybrids that are all brewed in house.

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8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Can: Poured a bright yellow color ale with a large white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of floral coffee notes is quite nice. Taste is also dominated by floral coffee notes with light residual sugar notes. Body is about average for style with good carbonation. Doesn’t look like a coffee beer but tastes exactly like one.

Tried from Can on 12 Jan 2026 at 21:17


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

On tap at Stillwell Freehouse. Pours hazy blonde with a large white head. Loads of dry spicy grass on the nose. Flavour is clean and crisp with spicy grassy hops and cracker malts. Very well hopped. Great pils.

Tried from Draft at The Stillwell Freehouse on 20 Dec 2025 at 16:37


8.5

Tried on 18 Dec 2025 at 23:13


7

Tried on 13 Dec 2025 at 00:15


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7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

This lager poured a cloudy, light yellow colour with a fizzy, bright white head. Nice lacing. Scents include corn, a little grass, straw and a little citrus. First swig was not what I was expecting. A lot happier than any lager I’ve ever had before with flavours of citrus and grass with a little malt and honey. Finish is lightly bitter with flavours of hop flavours lingering.

Tried from Can from LCBO #373 - Lynden Park Mall on 02 Dec 2025 at 23:16


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

750mL bottle, pours a deep dark red with a small beige head. Aroma is full of pithy berries, some wild bugs, and tannins. Flavour is modestly tart, with plenty of bright tart red berries, some bugginess, light tannins, and a touch of pithines. Buggy, tart, full of red berries. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle at Burdock Brewery & Music Hall - Bloor St W on 09 Nov 2025 at 06:46


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

750mL bottle, pours a cloudy deep dark red with a medium beige head. Aroma is complex, with plenty of pungent musty grape skins and nice bugginess. Flavour is likewise complex, with plenty of red grapes—mustiness, juiciness—that combines well with the bugs. Really smooth and well-put-together. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle at Burdock Brewery & Music Hall - Bloor St W on 09 Nov 2025 at 04:00


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

750mL bottle at Burdock, pours a relatively clear amber with a small white head. Nose has a wonderful wild yeast expression, with gentle funk and tons of musty red grape skins. Flavour is wonderfully musky, with tons of red grape skins, some gentle brett, and a touch of oak. Really wonderfully vinous—killer combo of grapes and wild yeast. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle at Burdock Brewery & Music Hall - Bloor St W on 07 Nov 2025 at 01:10


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

On tap at Burdock, pours a hazy golden yellow with a medium white head. Aroma is full of jumbled pithy stone fruits, oats, and some candied notes. Flavour is all wrong, with harsh astringent bitterness, earthiness, and pithy stone fruits. Messy and poorly expressed in the hop department. Poor.

Tried from Draft at Burdock Brewery & Music Hall - Bloor St W on 07 Nov 2025 at 01:05


6.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

On tap at Burdock, pours a clear blonde with a small white head. Aroma has plenty of tangy tropical fruits, some earthiness, and bready malt. Flavour has a strange hop expression, with a weird tartness, citrus, and a thin malt bill. Not a big fan of the hops here but the beer structure is decent.

Tried from Draft at Burdock Brewery & Music Hall - Bloor St W on 07 Nov 2025 at 01:00