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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.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Bellwoods Brewery, Canada, Wild Ale

Bellwoods Jelly King Cranberry & Tangerine

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Brewery: Bellwoods Brewery
Country: Canada
ABV: 5.6%
Style: Wild Ale
Other Notes: Dry-hopped sour ale w/ fruit

Brewer Description: (from website) Jelly King combines bright and juicy hop aromatics with a refreshingly tart base, and is bursting with notes of fuzzy peach, tangerine, and grapefruit. This limited edition Jelly King variant was conditioned on loads of cranberry and tangerine purée.

My rating: 4+
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.46
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.3

Intro: A 473ml can, canned on 8th February 2022. Poured into a winebar glass.
Appearance: A darkish but very orange colour with a one finger off white head that dissipated quickly to nothing and left very sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Cordial like. Tangerine forward, apricot, grapefruit zest, with maybe notes of cranberry.
Taste: Sweet and sour, tart, tangerine, candied grapefruit, nectarine, and a hint of cranberry if any.
Mouthfeel: Light to medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: Not a complex beer, but the aroma and flavours do work for me. It went down really easy and was enjoyable. A thirst quencher for a hot day.

4 - Good (buy), Beer Reviews, Bellwoods Brewery, Canada, Wild Ale

Bellwoods Jelly King Pineapple Tangerine Grapefruit

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Brewery: Bellwoods Brewery
Country: Canada
ABV: 5.6%
Style: American Wild Ale
Other Notes: Dry-hopped sour ale w/ fruit

Brewer Description: (from bottle) Jelly King is a juicy dry hopped sour with punchy hop aromatics and tart, tropical, fruity flavours. To this batch we added a healthy dose of pineapple, tangerine and grapefruit for exponential fruit enjoyment.

My rating: 4
My beeradvocate.com rating: 4.28
My ratebeer.com rating: 4.1

Intro: A 500ml bottle, bottled on 1st March 2021, and poured into a Tilquin stemmed glass.
Appearance: A cloudy golden orange colour with a two finger white head that dissipated fairly quickly but left only sparse to no lacing.
Aroma: Tart, sweet hard candy, citrus cordial, pineapple, grapefruit and tangerine.
Taste: Sour, sweet and bitter, sour gummy candy, pineapple, grapefruit, tangerine, and citrus pith.
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied with moderate carbonation.
Overall: I enjoyed this. It was like drinking liquid candy. Good easy drinking flavours and very refreshing.