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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A deep dark stout with a thin creamy brown head. In aroma, sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, loads of raspberry, light alcohol warmth, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity chocolate malt with dark fruits, raspberries, alcohol warmth, very nice and rich. Bottle at l'autre oeil.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Jul 2024 at 19:42


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

375mL bottle. Pours dark brown with tan head. Aroma has dark chocolate, raspberry, red wine, musty wood. Flavour is dominated by the raspberry and red wine; leather and dark fruit pits. Very enjoyable.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2024 at 04:05


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

375mL bottle, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is complex and integrated—more like a dark funky sour—with tons of raspberries, lots of red wine barrels, oak, some bugs, and a touch of bugs. Flavour is more like a dark buggy sour, with lots of red wine barrels, lots of tannins, oak, tart raspberries, medium roast, and wood. Very vinous, buggy, oaky, and lightly fruity. I don't usually like fruited stouts, but this drinks more like a complex fruited, wine, dark sour. Excellent.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2024 at 04:01


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

375mL bottle. Pours cloudy pale yellow with thin white head. Aroma is funky with floral notes, light citrus. Flavour has some wild yeast, light citrus, floral hops, woody dryness. Very pleasant and refreshing flavour profile.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2024 at 02:56


7.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

375mL bottle, pours a hazy blonde with a small white head. Aroma brings out lots of floral dry-hopping, some wild bugs, oak, and a touch of citrus. Flavour has a complex wild yeast character, just dry-hopping, a touch of citrus, and oak. Nice wild yeast character complemented by the oak and mild dry-hopping. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 13 Jul 2024 at 02:54


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

On tap at the 2nd draft Hong Kong pours out hazy golden topped with a white head. Nose is nice mango some citrus tartness and a little salty brine. Taste is more of the nice light mango zesty tartness and some nice salt notes.

Tried from Draft on 06 Jul 2024 at 06:41


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

On tap at brewery. Pours cloudy pale yellow with large foamy white head. Aroma is floral and saison-y. Flavour is also floral and has a lot of dry saison yeast, some crisp malts. Excellent saison.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jun 2024 at 19:01


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at brewery. Pours cloudy yellow with white head. Aroma has bright green apple, gentle funk and citrus. Flavour had some green apple, cereal malts, a bit floral. Solid underlying wild sourness. Not super aggressive flavour, but well-balanced and complex. Great pale ale.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jun 2024 at 18:46


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at brewery. Pours pinkish orange with white head. Aroma is rustic and floral with bugs and a touch of cherry. Flavour has sour cherries, bugs, floral notes. Complex but weak.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jun 2024 at 18:34


5.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

On tap at brewery. Pours hazy yellow with large white head. Aroma has light citrus and fresh grass. Flavour has light, pithy citrus, dankness, and some crisp malts. Very mediocre.

Tried from Draft on 28 Jun 2024 at 18:20