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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7/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Bottle: Poured a very pale yellow ale with a medium size foamy head with limited retention and light lacing. Aroma of oak and tart notes with some salty notes also perceptible. Taste is also a mix of salty notes with some tart notes with oak presence also detectable, vinous notes are harder to distinguish that I was expecting. Body is light with strong carbonation. A bit disappointed by the lack of cohesion between the flavours.
Tried from Bottle on 27 Mar 2020 at 19:53

7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
375ml (thx, Eric D.!) @ home on 37th birthday during COVID-19 quarantine. Appearance: hazy golden with a white head. Aroma: nice wild notes, with some slight barrel notes. Taste: along the same lines, there is definitely some fruity notes, and quite a lot of honeydew in the aftertaste. Overall: good one.
Tried on 22 Mar 2020 at 05:25

7.9/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
375ml (thx, Phill S.) @ home on 37th birthday during COVID-19 quarantine. Appearance: a bit hazy purple with a rose head. Aroma: nice American saisonwild notes with berries and barrel notes. Taste: along the same lines with lots of fruits and berries with creamy notes coming from oak, tannins. Overall: good one, a bit too woody maybe, but it's pretty good.
Tried from Can on 21 Mar 2020 at 22:46

7.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
355ml can that pours a lightly hazed, very light golden colour with a fluffy off-white cap that stays a while and leaves foamy lacing. Lemon peel aromas with some notes of grassy hops. After the last pour, gets cloudy with some particles floating across. The head seems more frothy. The taste balances well again the grassiness and lemon notes. Some decent bitterness in the finish. Just missing a little Belgian Ale yeast for a Saison, but as a beer - drinkable.
Tried from Can on 19 Mar 2020 at 03:21

7.8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 8 Overall 8
Clear pale gold with a decent white head. Sour lime and kiwi. Soured tropical notes and a nice clean finish. Nice.
Tried from Draft at Milos' Craft Beer Emporium on 09 Mar 2020 at 17:36

6/10
It's a bit of an atrocity that this is my first Burdock beer considering how close I live to their brewpub, and worst it was purchased on the other side of the city at an LCBO. This pour a surprisingly pale yellow, mildly cloudy and head to nuthin but quick. Nose is doughy with bare bit of pine hops. Taste is mild. Some resinious hops, thin dried grass malt, mild bitterness, orange pith finish. This is only meh.
Tried on 01 Mar 2020 at 23:46

7.6/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle: Poured a very pale yellow color ale with a large white foamy head with light retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of funky vinous notes with some tart notes. Taste is also a mix of tart notes with some funky grapes notes and light oak notes. Body is light with good carbonation. Enjoyable wine/beer hybrid.
Tried from Bottle on 01 Mar 2020 at 18:38

8.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(375ml bottle from the brewery bottleshop) Pours fairly hazy pale gold with a small rapidly dissipating white head and no lace. Aroma of beautifully sweet and fresh honeydew melon, white wine grape, candied lemon, soft pit fruit, nice woody overtones, subtle funk and maybe a little saison yeast. Flavour is rather dry, with light sweet and light tart components, melon more prominent while cold, increasingly vinous while warm. Clear white wine character, candied lemon accents, moderate oak, some nice complex yeast profile, a little sake to it when warm, good acidity through the finish, slightly dusty in the aftertaste, lingering wine and melon hits. Fairly light-bodied, average carbonation. Really beautiful and interesting, perhaps the nicest melon I've had in a beer, good wine/sake vibes here.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Feb 2020 at 20:07

7.4/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
375ml frol BCL shared with Dima and Andrey. Appearance: hazy pale golden with a white head. Aroma: nice yellow plum, unraped green grape skines, funk and barrel. Moderately sour. Taste: along the same lines. Overall: pretty good.
Tried on 11 Feb 2020 at 05:33

8.1/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Bottle: Poured a bright pink color ale with no head but good carbonation. Aroma of light blueberry notes with some vinous notes, some tart notes and dry fruity notes. Taste is also a mix of tart notes with some light funky notes, some blueberry with fruity undertones and a dry vinous finish. Body is about average with good carbonation. Another great mix of wine and beer form this fine brewery.
Tried from Bottle on 10 Feb 2020 at 00:45