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4 - Good (buy), Badlands Brewing, Beer Reviews, Canada, IPA - New England / Hazy

Badlands Kiwi

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Brewery: Badlands Brewing
Country: Canada
ABV: 6.5%
Style: IPA – New England / Hazy
Other Notes: Hops – Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka and Motueka

Brewer Description: (from can) New Zealand produces some of the finest hops in the world. Their growing region has a character unlike any other in the hop world and we are exceptionally smitten by it. Some of our favorite varieties to blend with come from the region, which is why we wanted to brew a beer that was aggressively hopped with some of our favy mcfavorites, and the results are sublime.

Dry hopped with the holy New Zealand trifecta of Nelson Sauvin, Riwaka, and Motueka we taste heaven… but also gooseberry, lime, tropical fruit and dank berries.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.38

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 26th December 2024. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy pale milky yellow colour with a one finger white head that had good retention, and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Gooseberry, white wine grapes, lime zest, candied berries.
Taste: White grapes, gooseberry, lime, with notes of tropical berries.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: An enjoyable NEIPA showcasing some of the best New Zealand hops varieties.

3 - Indifferent (might buy, probably drink), Badlands Brewing, Beer Reviews, Canada, IPA - New England / Hazy

Badlands Fog (2025)

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Brewery: Badlands Brewing
Country: Canada
ABV: 6.5%
Style: IPA – New England / Hazy
Other Notes: Hops – Citra, Superdelic and Nectaron

Brewer Description: (from can) This is the very first beer we ever brewed as a brewery. It was batch numero uno but it never saw the light of day because almost everything went wrong on that first beer (the final death punch was the glycol loop dying in late June 2017, and fermentation getting wayyyyy too hot).

When it was first brewed it had a working name of “Fog.” We decided it was finally time to bring it back, pretty different recipe (trust us, its better now!), same working name (which has been promoted to its “for eva eva” name).

Hopped with Citra, Superdelic and Nectaron we taste notes of navel orange, lime, nostalgia, and tropical fruit candy.

My rating: 3+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 3.98

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 26th December 2024. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy pale milky yellow colour with a big three finger white head that had good retention, and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Mandarin, melon, lime, with notes of tropical fruit candy.
Taste: Candied citrus zesty sweetness, mandarin, melon, lime.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Preferred the aroma over the flavour, as the flavour just wasn’t as juicy as the aroma suggested it could have been.

4 - Good (buy), Badlands Brewing, Beer Reviews, Canada, IPA - New England / Hazy Double

Badlands DIPA January (2025)

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Brewery: Badlands Brewing
Country: Canada
ABV: 8.2%
Style: IPA – New England / Hazy Double
Other Notes: Hops – Nelson and Superdelic

Brewer Description: (from Untappd) The monthly DIPA series is our neutral, hop ready canvas to play around with all things DIPA. The goal for the series is not only to bring you at least one DIPA per month, but also to allow us to push our base DIPA recipe in any number of directions with the goal of ultimately tweaking, refining and improving every DIPA in our lineup.

This month January is riding shotgun with Evolve, so we had to pump it up to a 10lbs/bbl hop charge of Nelson and superdelic. We taste tropical gooseberry, pineapple and some characteristic dank New Zealand lush hop expression.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.14

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 19th December 2024. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy pale milky yellow colour with a two finger white head that had good retention, and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Tropical, pineapple, melon, citrus zest, grapefruit peel, green gooseberry, with notes of white wine grapes.
Taste: Tropical fruit, pineapple, gooseberry, white wine grapes, grapefruit peel.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: Pretty good aroma and flavours, but more so, is that I’m now drawn to the Superdelic hop, and want more of that.

4 - Good (buy), Badlands Brewing, Beer Reviews, Canada, IPA - New England / Hazy Triple

Badlands Evolve Or Die (2024)

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Brewery: Badlands Brewing
Country: Canada
ABV: 10%
Style: IPA – New England / Hazy Triple
Other Notes: Hops – Citra, Mosaic, Motueka and Galaxy

Brewer Description: (from can) Our annual triple IPA where we push the hopping rates to their illogical extreme.

The goal of this beer is to implement everything we’ve learned through our Dora and monthly DIPA series’. Each one is a different experiment that pushes our hoppy beer into distinctly different directions, always with the intent of making a more densely layered, and intense hop experience while still remaining soft, and endlessly drinkable.

Stagnation, complacency and comfort are the enemy of progress and innovation. This is the culmination of everything we’ve learned over the past year about hoppy beer. Evolve or die.

Hopped with Citra, Mosaic, Motueka and Galaxy, this is a deeply hop saturated beer that is as undeniably cost prohibitive as it is delectably drinkable. We taste intense notes of pineapple, mango, tangerine, mojito lime, peach and tropical fruit. The hopping rate of this beer is approximately 20lbs/bbl (78g/L).

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating:4.35

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 18th December 2024. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy pale milky yellow colour with a one finger white head that had good retention, and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Tropical, mango, pineapple, peach gummy candy, and notes of citrus zest.
Taste: Light to moderately sweet, tropical fruit, mango, peach gummy candy, citrus zest bitterness, with a splash of lime.
Mouthfeel: Medium to full bodied with soft to moderate carbonation.
Overall: Good enjoyable aroma and flavours. Not too sweet as the bitterness on the finish balances it out.

4 - Good (buy), Badlands Brewing, Beer Reviews, Canada, IPA - New England / Hazy

Badlands A Dent

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Brewery: Badlands Brewing
Country: Canada
ABV: 6.5%
Style: IPA – New England / Hazy
Other Notes: Hops – Citra, Mosaic and Idaho 7

Brewer Description: (from can) There are some moments in world history that put a dent in the way you think. The image on the label is a call back to the moon landing of 1969. A moment that captured the collective imagination of the world. A collective feat of human ingenuity that clearly signaled to us Earth dwelling homosapiens that maybe, just maybe, if we could touch martian soil, maybe one day we could be an interplanetary species too. To some, this landing is controversial. Staged in a Hollywood studio or some such thing. I don’t care. We like it.

Hopped with Citra, Mosaic, and Idaho 7. We taste ripe tangerine flesh, pink grapefruit and papaya.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.04

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 18th December 2024. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A hazy pale milky yellow colour with a one finger white head that had good retention and left nice lacing.
Aroma: Citrusy, orange zest, grapefruit, and a touch of tropical fruit.
Taste: Lightly bitter, citrusy, orange zest, mandarin, grapefruit, tropical papaya, melon, and a dash of lime.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: The aroma was fine, but the taste was better, and it goes down easy.