Category Archives: 4 – Good (buy)

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Bottle Logic Brewing, Stout - Pastry Imperial, USA

Bottle Logic Scatter Signal

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Brewery: Bottle Logic Brewing
Country: USA
ABV: 12%
Style: Stout – Pastry Imperial
Other Notes: Batch 003, 2022 release, Stasis Project, BA Imperial Mocha Stout

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Imperial Stout aged in bourbon barrels and finished w/ coffee, cacao nibs, and marshmallows.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.17

Intro: A 500ml bottle, batch 003, 2022 release, poured into a snifter glass.
Appearance: Black in colour with a thin brown head that dissipated quickly, while leaving only sparse lacing.
Aroma: Sweet, roasted malts, milk chocolate, coffee, vanilla, oak, bourbon.
Taste: Much like the aroma, sweet, chocolate, coffee, vanilla, oak, bourbon, booze.
Mouthfeel: Creamy, full bodied, with soft carbonation.
Overall: Great aroma and good flavours. It was not too sweet, and an enjoyable sipper.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Belgium, Bofkont, Lambic - Fruit

Bofkont Barbera (White Label)

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Brewery: Bofkont
Country: Belgium
ABV: 6%
Style: Lambic – Fruit
Other Notes: 2021 vintage

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Blend of 1, 2, 3, years old lambic with Barbera grapes from Piëmonte in Italy. The blend is a collaboration with our friends from La Carlina Winery near Alba. This blend had a second fermentation in the bottle.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.2

Intro: A 750ml corked and capped bottle, 2021 vintage, bottled on 16th December 2022. Poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A deep reddish purple colour, with a one finger pink head, that had decent retention, while leaving sparse lacing.
Aroma: Tart, grape skin, red wine vinous, cherry, light funk, lemon zest.
Taste: Light sour, tart, red wine vinous, grape skin, cherry, with a slight hint of booze.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Very vinous with good enjoyable aroma and flavours. But perhaps one of the few beers I prefer less carbonation.

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.

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.