Badlands Brewing Company

Microbrewery in Caledon, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Badlands Brewing Company

Established in 2018

Contact
13926 Chinguacousy Road, Caledon, L7C 1Z3, Canada
Description
A farm brewery in Caledon, Ontario. Troy Baxter, Mike Nuttall and Grace Wilkinson make hoppy, hazy ales in small batches that sell out as fast as they can make them. We specialize in IPA, but we also have a deep affinity for farmhouse ales, crispy lagers and mixed fermentation sours.

We used to brew on a small, inefficient 100ish liter brew house in an old retrofitted calf barn. It was a lot of work, but it's all we could afford to get this thing started without investors. Now we mostly brew on a bigger, sort of more efficient brewery.

Since day one we have believed in the same fundamentals: quality and freshness above all else. Our mission is to get our beer to your mouth when it's at it's best!

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7.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours opaque orange-gold with a thick white head and lace. Notes of ripe pineapple, orange pulp, peach puree, orange and grapefruit peels, lightly sweet and somewhat doughy malt core, edges of dankness but more of a lupulin tingle than real hop burn, smooth and fairly creamy body and off-dry finish with very low bitterness. Medium-plus body, moderately creamy, soft carbonation, light touch of booze. Super-solid balance and flavour but not really as aromatic as I expected. Still a good brew.
Tried from Can on 31 Jul 2021 at 19:46

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near-opaque medium yellow with a thick white heand and massive lace. Aroma of ripe grapefruit mix with accents of sweet strawberries, some pungent overripe mango, dank pineapples, fresh florals and some nice leafy weedy accents, not high and bright but still very fresh. Flavour is moderately sweet, pink and white grapefruit pulp, grapefruit zest, orange accents, coconut-creamed mangoes, floral fruit rind backing, leafy accents, lightly dank. Smooth lightly bready malt, super-creamy vibes, dry finish that's got good grapefruit bitters and torn leaves with little hop burn. Medium-plus bodied, soft carb adding to the creaminess. A very full-feeling single for Badlands but with the house plushness in full effect. One of the nicest Talus-led IPAs I've had, berry and grapefruit in balance with the dank sides of Idaho and Mosaic. Very solid!
Tried from Can on 30 Jul 2021 at 20:18

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near-opaque bright gold with a thick white head and some lace. Aroma of ripe yellow/ataulfo mangoes, tangerines, orange plup, clear deep floral honey, some tropical 'red' fruit like mangosteen or lychee, lightly peppery resins, very fragrant nose. Flavour is mid-sweet, navel orange plup and yellow mango again, floral tropicals, maybe some papaya, honey is giving as much flavour as sugar with clear honeyed notes from mid-sip on, lightly bready malt but maybe a different profile to a typical Badlands IPA, semi-drying finish with a little peppery hop burn and lingering floral honey and mango notes. Light to medium body, a little less creamy than the house standard and with a hint of ABV warmth. Nice honey IPA, much better than the first iteration for me and I enjoyed the adjunct flavour.
Tried from Can on 24 Jul 2021 at 22:52

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours somewhat hazy pale orange with a thick loose white head and clumpy lace. Notes are quite different from a typical Badlands IPA; extremely dank fresh cannabis dominates the nose and is quite strong on the tongue, fair amount of both fresh conifers too, grapefruit pulp and candied citrus zest, prominent bread and cereal malt core is semi-sweet but quite drying on the finish, not particularly resinous but with good leafy, dank and slighlty coniferous bitterness and sweet citrus oils in the finish and aftertaste, low to moderate bitterness. Fairly light body, a little more slick and less creamy than typical Badlands malt bases. Really interesting brew, not old-school per se but not really their typical new school style either. For local ingredients, it's a banger.
Tried from Can on 24 Jul 2021 at 15:20

7/10
A hazed milk yellow ipa with a thick frothy lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, herbaceous character, light mineral notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice. Can from brewery.
Tried from Can on 18 Jul 2021 at 19:12

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours milky deep gold with a thick white head and lace. Aroma has nice canned lychee from Galaxy, herbal dill-adjacent notes and coconut milk from Sabro, softly dank mango/peach-inflected tropical quality from the Citra but I find it's the more retiring aroma hop here. Flavour is semi-sweet at best, lychee, white grape and leafy hop cones, light diesel dankness, the dill-adjacent grassiness of Sabro, peachy core with a little mango, light coconut creaminess, drying finish with softly bready malt peeking through, lychee and grape candies, leafy herbal Sabro, touches of citrus bitters. Medium bodied, quite creamy though maybe a touch less than some of their singles. Super beer though, love this hop profile which is very much in line with my tastes despite not being a Citra juice bomb.
Tried from Can on 17 Jul 2021 at 19:04

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near-opaque orange-gold with a decent white head and lace. Aroma is slightly mild for Badlands, mixed citrus bowl with lemon, lime and grapefruit meeting soft mango/papaya type tropical sweetness, some spicy herbs and a little dankness. Flavour is heavy lemon-lime zest upfront, some unripe pineapple and soft mixed tropical notes, light dankness, softly bready malt, drying out into the finish with lime peel and floral soapiness prominent, feels like the Moutere must be running the show a bit since it's not a typical Citra/Mosaic finish though with low bitterness. Light to medium bodied and creamy-soft. Solid entry in the series, not wholly sold on the slightly soapy finish but otherwise quite pleasurable if not overly punchy.
Tried from Can on 15 Jul 2021 at 00:55

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near-opaque deep gold with a thick white head and a carpet of intricate lace. Aroma is quite interesting, peach iced tea with lemon and grapefruit zests, touches of bready malt, squeeze of tropical fruit, lightly dank but the tea vibe is unusual and must come from a blend of resin and fruit notes. Flavour follows the nose somewhat, moderately sweet with peach and orange juice, floral grapefruit and tropical accents, more of the iced tea vibe to the bitters and resins, dank adjacent but not overly weedy, solid bready malt base that feels the barest hint torrified, semi-dry low bitterness finish with grapefruit iced tea aftertaste. Medium-full body, super creamy for a thick vibe, fairly soft carb. Solid DIPA iteration, with a little age on the can I didn't find this unbalanced or green like the last couple of monthly DIPAs have been, interesting profile if not heavily concentrated.
Tried from Can on 12 Jul 2021 at 14:51

8.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours quite cloudy orange-gold with a thick white head and lots of lace. Aroma is a nice mix of citrus fruits, tangerine/navel orange sweetness, peppery yuzu and some grapefruit, backed by mixed tropicals like mango and papaya, touches of pine resins and a little weed. Flavour is fairly sweet mango, orange and papaya pureé over nicely bready malt with almost a hint of toast, clear presence of pine needles and citrus oil bitterness, finishing lightly sweet with candied orange and papaya notes and light citrus/cannabis resin bitters and a little lingering malt. Medium-full creamy body, usual Badlands quality mouthfeel. A real nice fruity-dank DIPA, gives the impression of a slightly maltier base but probably just the hops playing tricks.
Tried from Can on 05 Jul 2021 at 02:59

7/10
A hazed blonde ipa with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet biscuit malt with light tropical fruits. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with resinous floral hops, light tropical fruits, OK.
Tried on 26 Jun 2021 at 00:57