Left Field Brewery runs a baseball-themed taproom at 40 Hanna Avenue, the Liberty Village room where a 300-seat hall, a kitchen and a retail store sit under one two-storey roof.
The Liberty Village location fills the 40 Hanna building where The 3 Brewers once stood, an 11,000-square-foot, two-storey space with a 300-seat tap room, a kitchen and a bottle shop. blogTO and NOW Toronto both note it as the brewery's larger second home, a step up from the original Leslieville brewhouse on Wagstaff Drive. The room is built for crowds, which makes it an easy landing spot in a neighbourhood short on big rooms.
Left Field leans all the way into baseball, and the lineup carries the theme. Eephus, the oatmeal brown ale, is the flagship that put the brewery on the map, with the Maris pale ale and Sweet Spot wheat ale rounding out the core, plus a Wrigley-style lager and rotating seasonals on the board. The names are a gimmick that earned its keep, because the beer underneath holds up. The taproom also runs regular release days and seasonal events, which give the room a calendar that keeps the Liberty Village regulars cycling back through the week.
What to order: Eephus first, since it is the beer the brewery is known for and the one the taproom keeps closest. From there the Maris pale ale is the all-day pour and the wheat ale is the warm-weather pick. Pints run roughly 7 to 9 dollars, the kitchen turns out shareable plates to keep a long session going, and the retail store means a four-pack can leave with you.
The crowd is Liberty Village locals, post-work groups, and families early in the day, since the big room and kitchen make it a flexible stop. Best time to go is a weekend afternoon or right after work, before the condo neighbourhood fills the place. Who it is for: groups that want space, beer drinkers who like a deep core lineup, and anyone after a taproom with a real kitchen. Who should skip it: drinkers chasing a tiny, intimate brewhouse, since this room is built for volume.
The two-storey room is built for volume, with the bar on the main floor and overflow seating above, plus a kitchen that runs a full menu rather than a snack list. Google Maps reviewers flag the kitchen plates and the family-friendly early hours as much as the beer, and they note that the place can get loud once the after-work crowd arrives, which is the trade-off for a room this size in a neighbourhood short on them.
Left Field started in Leslieville in 2013 as a small, baseball-obsessed brewhouse and grew into a name carried on tap lists across the city before opening this larger Liberty Village home. The Eephus brown ale did most of that work, an easy-drinking flagship that gave the brewery a signature, and the rest of the core lineup leans on the same approachable instinct rather than chasing the hop arms race that defines so many newer Toronto breweries.
Scale is the selling point. Left Field's Liberty Village taproom solves the group problem the same way a beer hall does, with a deep core lineup and a kitchen that keeps pace, and the baseball theme gives it a personality most production breweries never bother to build. For more west-end and downtown taprooms, see our guide to the best craft beer in Toronto, browse the full Toronto bar guide, or weigh it against our citywide craft beer roundup. Nearby, WVRST in Toronto and Junction Craft Brewery in Toronto make a full beer day of it.
