Badlands Brewing Company
Microbrewery
in
Caledon,
Ontario,
Canada 🇨🇦
Associated Venue: Badlands Brewing Company
Established in 2018
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!
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!
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can: Poured a hazy/cloudy yellow color ale with a large white foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of citrusy hoppy floral undertones notes with some juicy hops notes. Taste is a mix of juicy hops notes with some hoppy floral hops undertones with some citrusy notes, with light tropical flavors and light residual sugar notes. Body is full with good carbonation. Well brewed NEIPA with nice floral hoppy notes.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Nov 2022
at 01:22
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
16oz (thx, Brian C.!) @ home shared with Farees and Alex. Appearance: brown with a quickly disappearing beige head. Aroma: lots of vanilla and chocolate, booze, bourbon barrel. Very pastry. Taste: along the same lines, moderately sweet to high sweet, lots of bourbon, some booze. Overall: quite good, maybe with a bit too much vanilla.
Tried
on 11 Nov 2022
at 06:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from 473mL can (thanks Nico). Murky yellow with white head. Mild dankness, citrus hops, slightly creamy, touch of chalk. Okay.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Nov 2022
at 03:43
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
16oz @ Ryan's shared with Farees. Appearance: murky blonde with a white head. Aroma: dank, earthy, juicy. Taste: along the same lines, juicy while drinking, dry at the finish. Overall: interesting.
Tried
on 07 Nov 2022
at 03:41
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can, 473 ml, 2022 vintage, canned on 24/AUG/2022, via Philippe Boutin (merci!) on September 23, 2022, savoured on November 1, 2022; eye: sandy with a yellowish hue, opaque, cloudy, no effervescence, thin sheet of tawny head, average lacing; nose: aromatic hops, grapefruit, citrus, citric, light malt; mouth: citrus, citric, light malt, grapefruit, grapefruit peel, slight fusel, alcohol, light alcohol warmth, semi-dry finale in grapefruit with citric presence, medium-full body, good carbonation, mildly bitter, mildly sweet, lightly fleshy texture; in summary: fine FRANÇAIS
Canette, 473 ml, millésime 2022, encannée le 24/AUG/2022, via Philippe Boutin (merci!) le 23 septembre 2022, savourée le 1 novembre 2022; œil : sable avec une teinte jaunâtre, opaque, trouble, pas d’effervescence, mince couverture de mousse fauve, dentelle moyenne; nez : houblons aromatiques, pamplemousse, agrumes, citrique, léger malt; bouche : agrumes, citrique, léger malt, pamplemousse, zeste de pamplemousse, très léger fusel, alcool, léger chaleur d’alcool, finale semi-sèche en pamplemousse avec présence citrique, corps moyen-corsé, bonne carbonatation, moyennement amère, moyennement sucrée, texture légèrement charnue; en résumé : bien
Canette, 473 ml, millésime 2022, encannée le 24/AUG/2022, via Philippe Boutin (merci!) le 23 septembre 2022, savourée le 1 novembre 2022; œil : sable avec une teinte jaunâtre, opaque, trouble, pas d’effervescence, mince couverture de mousse fauve, dentelle moyenne; nez : houblons aromatiques, pamplemousse, agrumes, citrique, léger malt; bouche : agrumes, citrique, léger malt, pamplemousse, zeste de pamplemousse, très léger fusel, alcool, léger chaleur d’alcool, finale semi-sèche en pamplemousse avec présence citrique, corps moyen-corsé, bonne carbonatation, moyennement amère, moyennement sucrée, texture légèrement charnue; en résumé : bien
Tried
from Can
on 01 Nov 2022
at 22:41
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
(473ml can from 4th and 7, Toronto) Pours near-opaque medium yellow with a decent white head and heavy lace. Aroma is very Phantasm-esque as expected with notes of mixed citrus and dank pineapple, some white grape, leafy cannabis-inflected greenness from Mosaic/Simcoe, a little tropical floral undertone. Flavour is quite dry overall, paler oranges and wine grape-style pit fruit, some floral red fruit/lychee vibes, light almost crackery/doughy malt without much sweetness, soft melon/fruit rind feeling from the milddle onward, thiol-forward and without much bitterness, dry finish with white grape, soft pineapple and lots of lime and pale orange peel minus its bitterness. Medium-bodied for style, slightly creamy, above average carbonation. Interesting that there's just a bit of Phantasm as part of the blend for kettle hops and yet the whole brew feels Phantasm-dominated - thiol city. Solid, nice and dry.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Oct 2022
at 22:42
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Can: Poured a hazy/cloudy yellow color ale with a large foamy head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma of citrusy hops notes with some huge juicy undertones and light warming alcohol notes. Taste is also a mix of juicy citrusy hops notes with some floral undertones notes with some light fusel alcohol notes. Body is full with good carbonation.Solid TIPA but alcohol is showing a bit too much.
Tried
from Can
on 10 Oct 2022
at 22:14
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can: Poured pitch-black color stout with a medium size brown foamy head with light retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of vanilla and bourbon notes with some sweet chocolate and fudge notes. Taste is also a mix of vanilla and bourbon notes with some sweet residual sugar notes and some fudge notes. Body is full with oily texture and good carbonation with light warming alcohol notes. Solid pastry stout though I think vanilla could have been toned down a bit.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Oct 2022
at 14:56
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Poured from the tap (this version has Citra, Mosaic & Simcoe; I think this is #52 - notes from Sept 25 to see if the other Vancouver folks rated this number, they did). Murky gold with small white head. Dank citrus hops, hint of hop burn, but otherwise quite nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 29 Sep 2022
at 07:39
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
On tap at Superflux, pours a cloudy milky yellow with a small white head. Aroma is rather murky, with earthy hops, plenty of chalk, and hopburn — ugh. Flavour is rather sweet, with a lactose-like sweetness, hopburn, and chalkiness. Murky and sludgy with little to enjoy. A no good, standard chalky hazy.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Sep 2022
at 22:43