Collective Arts Tier 2 Summary Bottom Line – One of the best breweries I’ve been to. Huge menu with great beers. Interesting layout and good location. This brewery was unscheduled, and I’m so glad it happened. See, the dummies we are, we looked up the Blue Jays game time while in Texas and didn’t realize […]
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Amsterdam Tier 3 Summary Bottom Line – Amazing location and sweet layout with plenty of seating on the water. Good service and decent beer make this an unexpectedly good option. Since it was such a nice night, we wanted to eat somewhere near the water and this place was close to our AirBNB. The place
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Black Lab Tier 3 Summary Bottom Line – A very solid brewery experience. It doesn’t have a defining attribute but everything about it was good. Black lab brewing was our fourth stop in the east end Friday. Neat coincidence, but this is my first brewery with the same name of another I’ve already been to.
Brewery Tier x Summary Bottom Line – Decent beers in a pretty good location with great service. Worth a quick stop as an entry point into the East Side. Eastbound is well situated on the way towards the Eastside breweries from downtown. As I wrote that sentence I realized I understood the name. It’s the
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Left Field Tier 4 Summary Bottom Line – A brewery with a fun theme and good energy. Beers are solid too, but the service was great. Left field brewing was our third stop on the East End. The place was packed, which is normally a pretty good sign for local love. Menu size was decent
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Burdock Tier 4 Summary Bottom Line – A brewery that feels more like a nicer restaurant. Beers were good but menu was limited. Burdock felt more like a nicer restaurant than a brewery. The patio was great and the inside was really nice. But that niceness made it feel less casual. I tried 3 beers
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Great Lakes Tier 4 Summary Bottom Line – A well-located taproom. Nothing extremely interesting but good location and solid all around. The Great Lakes Brew taproom near downtown was the only place that worked with our timeline so we checked it out. Not only was the menu a decent size and balance of styles, but
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Steam Whistle Tier 4 Summary Bottom Line – An iconic brand in an amazing location. The beer is what it is, so come for the trains and enjoy the downtown scenery Steam Whistle didn’t feel as much like a brewery as it did a park that has a beer. They have a taproom you can
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Avling Tier 3 Summary Bottom Line – More a farm-to-table restaurant than a brewery but still making good beers. Great concept to have a garden on the roof and using those ingredients in the food and beer. Avling operates as more than just a brewery on the east side of the city. They are big
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Saulter Street Tier 3 Summary Bottom Line – Alleyway brewery with some solid beers but a smaller selection. Good size space with some character. Saulter Street is located at the end of what I would describe as kind of an alleyway. We weren’t even sure we were going the right way, and the place looks
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