Evolve Or Die (2021)
(Batch of Evolve Or Die)
Badlands Brewing Company in Caledon, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular Out of Production|
Score
7.04
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The hoppiest beer we’ve ever made returns… but this time, even hoppier!
Evolve or Die is our annual DIPA where we push the hopping rates in our base DIPA as far as we can in an attempt to make the most hop saturated beer possible. This year we pushed the saturation even further, employing a massive amount of hops and modern hop products throughout the process to create a dense, liberally lupulin experience.
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 just under 16lbs/bbl (60 g/l) of Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy, this beer is a deeply hop saturated experience that is as undeniably cost prohibitive (there’s a reason we only make it once a year!) as it is delectably drinkable. We taste intense notes of pineapple, mango, tangerine, peach and tropical fruit.
Fun fact: there’s about $1.50 of hops in each can ?
Evolve or Die is our annual DIPA where we push the hopping rates in our base DIPA as far as we can in an attempt to make the most hop saturated beer possible. This year we pushed the saturation even further, employing a massive amount of hops and modern hop products throughout the process to create a dense, liberally lupulin experience.
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 just under 16lbs/bbl (60 g/l) of Citra, Mosaic, and Galaxy, this beer is a deeply hop saturated experience that is as undeniably cost prohibitive (there’s a reason we only make it once a year!) as it is delectably drinkable. We taste intense notes of pineapple, mango, tangerine, peach and tropical fruit.
Fun fact: there’s about $1.50 of hops in each can ?
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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(473ml can from 4th and 7, Toronto) Pours very hazy orangish-gold with a thick white head and some lace. Aroma of candied peach, dried mango, sweet orange, pineapple, citrus zest, some florals, dank edges. Flavour is mid-sweet at best (though sweetenes when warmer), candied orange peels, orange and grapefruit pulp, heavily leafy somewhat dank hop character, peach, red berries and florals in a real Mosaic/Galaxy dominated thing, bready malt core with some cereals, smooth fruity yeast, dry slightly bitter finish of citrus peels, berries and some conifer needles. Medium-bodied, creamy but with slightly higher carb than most Badlands. A nice hop-forward DIPA but not as tasty to me as 2020 version. Some of that may be that the average Badlands canned DIPA improved massively over the last year, but lately I've been thinking that more hop mass is not necessarily better past a certain point.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jan 2022
at 15:41