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    4.3 (42 reviews)
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    Peter L.

    I always drive past this place when i am driving the QEW into Toronto. I was hosting a bachelor party for my friend and he is a craft beer lover- so i decided that this would be our first stop. A little hard to find if you don't know where to look. Anyway, the limo driver knew where to go and drove us to the area. No frills Tap room with a huge patio. We were essentially drop ins but they accommodated the group (12 of us) on the patio. We did a tasting of some of their popular and exclusive beers. I like the IPAs (Octopus want to fight is my favorite) but they have a great selection of Amber and lagers as well. The tap room had $5 pours on tap as well as cans and bottles to go. They do have some food available but they are just appetizers. Recommended for a start of the night warm up place. Good vibes and fun.

    Always a lot of choice in the fridge!
    Cin C.

    This brewery is more like a store front with a row of large fridges carrying their current brews. There is a long counter one on side where you can sit and sample their many beers (there were around 9 available?), have a pint or try one of their flights. If they don't happen to have your choice on draft, they will pop open a can for you on the spot. Their staff are friendly and happy to introduce any of the brews or make a recommendation. In the summer months, they have a patio out front that looks to be a good place to enjoy some beer and catch some sun!

    No Chance With Miranda with Raspberries (saison) - a perfect pairing with Cheetos Puffs.
    John H.

    We cycled out here from the Queen West area a couple of weeks ago. The location is industrial and right by the highway, but cold beers on the patio after a ride on a hot day was awesome. Staff was very welcoming to two thirsty travelers. It was later in the day and they close at eight so we grabbed a couple of the No Chance With Miranda with Raspberries (Saison) to take home. It has a distinct raspberry taste but is light and refreshing with a slightly sour tang. A tarty fruit beer that's great for a hot day. Just drank the last one this afternoon and discovered an excellent pairing. This one goes perfectly with Cheetos Puffs.

    Jennifer K.

    Thanks so much for Troy at Great Lakes Brewery for our private tour.! That refreshing taste of Devil's Ale fresh from the tank was just so devilish which I always will remember! Love their Project X, a small batch crafted beer which only available in limited quantities, I ended up now having a bottle of Bourbon Porter aged in Wooden barrel waiting to be sampled in my fridge! 4 tasting of their most popular beers..and I am eyeing their Miami Weiss which is still fermenating in one of the tanks! Love how the brewmasters at Great Lakes are so innovative with their products: Green Tea Ale? Just giving me more execuse to drink more since isn't it that green tea is good for me? Drop by the store try some beers, pick up some beer at the source and support the local breweries!

    The labels of all their beers
    Julian C.

    The was an awesome place. They have a huge selection of local homemade beers, and the staff is extremely friendly and willing to help. They have a great flight deal where you pay $10 to get five 5-oz samples of beers. This is really fun with friends because you can all get different beers and try each other's! They also sell delicious popcorn to help buffer the beer so you all don't get obliterated all at once. The beers I had in order of favorite was: 1) No Chance With Miranda Saison 2) Red Leaf Laser 3) Sunny Side IPA 4) Hard Citra 5) Pale Al Pale Ale It was a great experience but the only thing is, there is no actual tour, so if you're looking to tour a brewery this isn't the place. If you want to taste a lot of local beers with cool names, bingo

    Fran F.

    Great service! Very friendly staff. No tours but great flights of beer! Tasty and very creative names. Red Leaf- not as bitter as I expected Toronto Island- light beer and fizzy aftertaste Pumpkin ale- very tasty with pumpkin flavor Green River- bitter beer Over my dad bod- light and then bitter aftertaste Citra- grapefruit and citrusy.

    Geoff D.

    Helped myself to a flight while I visited Great Lakes Brewery GLB, had Octopus, Pompous Ass, 666 Devil, Saison DuPump and Canuck. The Canuck is such a smooth drinking lager. One you can drink many of sitting pool side or dock side. Highly recommended. I next sampled the Octopus, honestly my favourite of their IPA's. One I will always get at the LCBO and every time I visit GLB. If you like IPA's this is one you will fall in love with. The saison dupump was a nice surprise and a nice drink. The 666 was both on tap and a cask, I had the cask version and it was delicious. I definitely recommend a visit to Great Lakes brewery, you will not be disappointed. Oh ya they have an amazing food truck next door with top notch tacos.

    Patio and GLB sign in the distance. (Storm clouds gathering!)
    Christine M.

    We were looking for a biking destination and chose Great Lakes Brewery. It's a great ride and quite accessible from Toronto along the waterfront bike path, then a short ride up through Mimico. We weren't sure what to expect inside - maybe just a bottle shop with some taps? - but it was a warm night and were happy to round the corner of the service road and see the huge patio with picnic tables and umbrellas out front. We were thirsty from the ride and started out with one of our favourites - Octopus Wants to Fight. Then we tried one of GLB's special offerings that was not available at the LCBO, the "No Chance With Miranda" raspberry saison. This was delicious. We bought a couple of big bottles to take home. The bottle-shop pours are $5 (they're not full pints, probably 10-12 oz). The service is efficient and friendly and if you're not sure about a beer, you can have a little sample before ordering. They close early - at 8:00 pm - and we were given short notice of this. There was no bathroom inside, but decent port-a-potties in the parking lot. Apparently there are bathrooms under renovation, so hopefully there will be something indoors in future. A nice patio, albeit without much of a view (the Gardiner Expressway), but a refreshing break on an otherwise scenic bikeride. I highly recommend a stop-off here!

    There is an outdoor deck with seating, but I'm guessing this is only open during the warmer months.
    Stephanie S.

    Tip: Free 5oz pour with Yelp check-in. I got a flight of 5 to share with friends and the check-in offer was applied to the flight. I think flight was ~$10 and after the check-in was applied, it was less than $5! I never got the guy's name who helped us out, but he was very friendly and accommodating. There were 5 beers on-tap, I told him what beers I liked, and he offered to crack open a can that wasn't on-tap. The flight helped my friends and I determine what beers we wanted to buy. Too bad Swamp Juice wasn't available in a can, but only a $15 growler - actually $10, after the $5 bottle deposit. My only criticism is that I wished that there was more seating. There was a group (people who worked there or friends of people who worked there), already seated at the long table, and there wasn't enough seating for 3 additional people. There were a couple of small, higher tables, but no chairs. So I hope that this will change in the future. I overheard that they're doing renos, so hopefully this includes plans for more seating. There was also a outdoor patio, but obviously only good when weather permits. Great place to stop and discover some local brews!

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    Lambert P.

    This place is a new discovery for me although it's been around for a while. About a month and a half ago I went with my wife to 850 Degrees on Lakeshore in Long Branch to have a nice pizza dinner. I had ordered a beer that they had called Canuck and since then I have fallen in love with this beer. This beer is a pale ale and it has a nice hoppy taste to it but it's not overpowering like some of the pale ales I've had in the past. In reading the can I discovered it was from Great Lakes Brewery right here in Toronto and as a matter of fact it's in my part of town (Etobicoke) as well. A recent return to 850 I had the Devil's Pale Ale which was 850's feature beer for November. Devil's to me was a little different, practically a stout and the color, it looked like I was drinking a Coke. I different taste, a different look. Being an active member of Yelp myself, Kris U who is the CM of the Greater Toronto Area had worked with GLB to get a pale ale made for YELP! That's right Kris has worked with Great Lakess Brewery to have an exclusive beer made for Yelp! From what Kris said an original batch of only 20 x 56 liter kegs were brewed. I'm not sure how many cans were made or if that was included in the quantity for the kegs but considering this beer has been spread out to local establishments during the past month until supplies last is pretty cool. Restaurants such as 229, Union Social Eatery, Hungry Brew Hops, King Henry's Arms, Smash Kitchen, Ten and Bru were all participants in the Yel-PA program. A dollar of every Yel-PA beer sold at these establishments is being donated to the Daily Bread Food Bank. This past Monday Kris held a CM Event at Union Social Eatery for a small group and we were able to all sample GLB's Yel-PA. Being as Union features a craft beer on Monday they were featuring Yel-PA that evening for 5 dollars. Yel-PA finally I had a chance to try it and it was good. It was a nice dark amber color and it had a good taste and wasn't overly overpowering and light on the hops. Well I had went to GLB near the Costco in Etobicoke to purchase some Yel-PA the other day and they were sold out! I was sort of sad but I did buy one Pompous Ass to try as the guy there told me Yel-PA was a lot like Pompous Ass. I also bought some Canuck. Now that I know where this place is I'm happy to say it is nice to know we have a local brewery very close that makes great beer for good prices. The Pompous Ass and Canuck sell for 2.50 each for tallboys (473 ml). Now this beer is really good and for 2.50 well that's just the same price as many of the other types of beer I can get at the LCBO. Pricewise GLB is competitive but taste wise well I will be coming here more often to stock on good locally made quality beer.

    Melissa N.

    Good place to pick up beer, thought it was a restaurant or tasting room, but not quite I pictured, on the website said next to a lake, and it's not near a lake or downtown. Good selection and great service

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    Brandon C.

    Great Lakes Brewery is a nice place to pick up some great beer. They have been doing craft beer longer than many of the newer players, and the beer is really good. Some of the beer is available at the LCBO, yet be sure to stop by the brewery to taste some limited release beers, as well as favourites on draught. Unlike some beer stops, Great Lakes is not a pub, yet more of a bright airy place that is more ideal for a weekend afternoon or take out order than anything else. Service here is both knowledgeable and friendly. The location is behind Costco beside the Gardiner.

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    Review Highlights - Great Lakes Brewery - Canada

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    The beer here is great, and we really enjoyed our visit. Our favourites were Juicy J and Belly…read moreBelgian, and their popular Watermelon Beer Sour was also a hit. My wife especially loved the Peach Lavender Seltzer. The staff were super friendly, and bonus points for having one of my favourite movies, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, playing in the background! Definitely worth a visit or worth picking up if you spot their beers at the LCBO. Where this place loses points, unfortunately, is in the building itself -- it definitely needs some TLC. It had the feel of a rundown warehouse, with cobwebs in some areas. On top of that, a lot of beers we were excited to try were unavailable -- at least 5 or 6 were out of stock during our visit.

    Stumbled across this local brewery when my PHX friend asked to stop for a beer. I didn't know any…read moreplaces in the area that had IPA's so I googled. I drive down Advance Road quite a bit visiting other businesses there but never noticed this brewery. It is tucked behind another building. We found it! The entrance was as appealing as a brewery should be. Lots of plants and wood. Inside, ceilings are high and industrial. The staff immediately acknowledged us and started to chat. We tried a couple of beers which were quite good. I'm not much of a beer drinker but had the Yasuke which is made with rice! Delicious and for the gluten sensitive. We ordered the Ancho Chicken Wings which came with a buttermilk ranch dressing and were perfectly cooked and flavored. We will return ...

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    4.5(11 reviews)
    1.3 kmEtobicoke
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    Black Oak Brewery is one of the few local breweries in the Toronto area…read more It is not only a retail store where you can pick up some of their beers which are seasonal and not available in LCBO or beer stores. If you do ask nicely, you even get a private tour of the facilities and gets to taste a couple of beers!!! (5 to be exact!!) Summer Sasion and 10 Bitter Year are only available in the brewery as 6 Packs which I now have them in my fridge ready for a patio party! We also tasted some small batch IPA on tap only...and of course their usual Pale Ale and Nutty Brown Ale... Which one is my favourite? I think I need to sample them again to find out! I definitely coming back for a visit next time when I in the area!! Maybe even for some of the events they host like Game Night!

    Such a cool spot, hidden away like a small office in an industrial plaza along Horner Ave in…read moreEtobicoke. When I say office though, it really is exactly like this because I think the front of house here (where you drink the beers) is basically a retrofitted office turned into a tasting room. The back of house, where the brewing and tours go on, it's deceivingly large and very clean. For me, I'm not a big fan of brewery tours because candidly once you've seen once, you've seen it all. I prefer to tour their beers by tasting them and Black Oak has no shortage of beers to try. A mix of their commercially available beers, seasonal draughts and little extras only available for purchase or tasting at the brewery. Good beer, good prices, and nice staff. Worth a visit

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    Steadfast Brewing

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    5.0(5 reviews)
    6.1 kmBrockton Village

    This was one of the first breweries we went to in toronto and we came back a tone for the growler…read morerefills. The growler itself is 10 and a fill is 15 which is a great deal. The growler is also something you can always get your deposit back on as well so its a great program. The beer itself is not my style considering its mostly on the holy side and less hazy but my wife liked it a lot. The atmosphere it self is pretty good. There is a long bar and tones of indoor and outdoor seating that is wide enough for large groups. It has a few board games of its own but you couod also bring anything and have the room for it. The staff is pretty friendly and chatted for a while when we were at the bar. They have a mug program too where you get a growler fill, discount on tap fills, your own mug, etc that seems good if we lived here longer.

    Last Saturday I met a friend at the Brewery for their 2nd Anniversary Event. The Event started at…read morenoon but we met at 2 pm; all pints on offer were $1 off for the Event and we ordered and shared 4 beers: Perpetuator Doppelbock, Elixir Imperial IPA, Gourd Intentions Pumpkin Ale and Hidden Rivers Pale Ale. All were great. We sat at the front of the Brewery where we had a perfect view of their impressive looking front patio. At one point I remarked to my friend that the patio was empty, then all of a sudden, people in groups or by themselves came out and in hardly no time the patio became about half filled. Inside the seats remained at best about half filled for the duration of our visit. Although this was my 1st visit to the Brewery, I had been to that address twice before, in 2016 back when Lansdowne Brewery was located there. In the intervening years, two other Breweries, Lot 30 and Woodhouse had occupied the location but I never managed to visit them there. We stayed for more than 2 hours, leaving shortly before 4:30. We had a quite enjoyable time sharing a variety of quality beers.

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    Rainhard Brewing

    4.3(18 reviews)
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    8 days ago (Sat. July 27) a friend and I met at Rainhard for a Cask Social Group Event. The Group…read morehas existed for quite a few years and have Events about once a month at TO bars, pubs and Breweries featuring one or more beer selections on cask. I hadn't been to the Brewery/The Ale Yards in about 6 1/2 years and my previous visit was shortly after Rainhard had expanded, taking over space previously occupied by another commercial Tenant in the same building. There have been a number of changes in the years since, i.e. their expanded area isn't open to customers but their bar and adjacent seating area is more or less the same. They have a pinball machine and another interactive game for customers. My friend and I arrived around 2:30 pm, half an hour after the Event started; the patio was fairly packed but inside was less so, therefore we sat inside. We shared 4 of the 5 cask beers on offer incl. Rainhard's Pure West and Zina from Volo. There was a fairly long lineup for awhile to order beers but it eventually became pretty short. Overall the prices were pretty fair considering they were cask beers. Though the Event went until 9 pm we left a little after 4:30 pm; we both had a fairly enjoyable time and we quite liked all of the beers we had.

    Rainhard Brewing opened to the public in May 2015. It is located in in Toronto's west end…read moreStockyards neighbourhood in a former refinery. It's a cozy spot. Justin, the bartender, was interesting and knowledgeable to talk with. I'm a boring beer drinker and enjoyed their Four on the Floor pilsner.

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