8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours opaque yellow with a thick white head and good lace. Aroma is heavy pink grapefruit pulp, wet tropical forest, Sabro coconut cream, herbs, some sweet orange/tropical undertones. Flavour is quite dry, lots of pink grapefruit pulp and zest, fresh leafy herbal components, smooth coconut, dill, orange pith, soft bready malt. Very dry low bitterness finish with pink grapefruit and coconut leading, herbal accents and Talus berry quality lingering. Medium-bodied, very soft creamy carbonation. Really like this hop profile here, creative and intricate 'pink and green' alternative to super-juicy or super-leafy combos; Talus meshed really well with the others. Happy anniversary Badlands!
Tried
from Can
on 26 Sep 2021
at 19:05
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours opaque orange-gold with a thick eggshell head and lace. Aroma of tangerine, sweet melon, papaya, Five Alive, subtle dank edge. Flavour is off-dry with a sweet creaminess I think is from the Spectrum, lacking the vegetal components of traditional DH beers; notes of grapefruit, lime, tangerine and papaya, citrus is peel/oil mostly with a little tangerine pulp, sweet tropicals are quite light here, malt is smooth and slightly bready. Finishes without any drydown or bitterness, just an extension of the hop profile from earlier in the sip with an increasing intensity of citrus oils and light dankness into the aftertaste. Light to medium bodied, oily, softly carbonated. Solid IPA with very pleasant hop quality, though the liquid hop product definitely changes the profile of a Citra bomb compared to traditional DH it is not a wholly bad thing.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Sep 2021
at 14:25
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near-opaque orange-gold with a thick eggshell head that's stable and leaves lace. Aroma is very fresh and leafy, with lychee, fresh pineapple, grapefruit peel, cannabis, herbs. Flavour is quite dry and crisp/mineral, notes of lychee, pineapple, lots of fresh and almost minty leaves, softly bready/crackery malt, low bitterness, lychee and mint aftertaste. Light to medium-bodied, very creamy soft carbonation. A solid Dora iteration; the water chemistry changes made it a bit drier/more powdery than the typical Badlands which I didn't love but the fresh Galaxy was a nice hop profile.
Tried
from Can
on 11 Sep 2021
at 16:21
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours dull pale orange with a huge whitish head that fades slowly leaving heavy lace. Aroma of mandarin, orange and grapefruit peel and resinous citrus oils, pine, candied peach, forest berries, lots of bready and lightly toasty malt. Flavour is candied orange, tangerine and grapefruit peels, dark forest berries, earthy pine and leaves, bready malt with a much deeper note than typical Badlands, resinous citrus oils and pine in the drying, moderately bitter finish with slightly toasty/caramelised grains in there as well. Long slightly astringent sticky aftertaste. Light to medium bodied, oily to creamy, fairly light carbonation. Solid but not the most exciting IPA from them, felt unusually malty and the hop profile was a little resinous and less elevated than the best of them.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Sep 2021
at 22:25
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours cloudly orange-gold like peach juice with a thick white head and good lace. Aroma is ripe peach, orange candy, pineapple flesh, coconut cream, herbal grassy accents. Flavour is lightly to moderately sweet canned peaches and pineapples, orange cream, white coconut, herbal dill-like edges, soft powder sugar, smooth fruity yeast esters, some mango in the back, smooth coconut-creamed tropical fruit finish with low bitterness but good drydown. Medium-plus body, oily to creamy, soft carbonation. Quite big Sabro character here, maybe a little moreso than the single version but with good Citra fruitiness as well. Very much up my alley.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Sep 2021
at 14:34
8/10
A hazed yellow DIPA with a thick frothy lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, citrus pulp, piney notes, pleasant. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, tropical fruit, very nice and smooth.
Tried
on 04 Sep 2021
at 00:15
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near opaque deep yellow with a thick white head showing good retention and lace. Aroma is a big hit of floral passionfruit (non-acidic) and guava, fuzzy peaches, tangerines, pink grapefruit, mango at the back, very floral-tropical overall. Flavour is mid-sweet at best with juicy peach paired with some peach skin, tangerine, bitter orange, the florals of passionfruit with no acid, 'red' tropical fruit in the Galaxy mold, subtle mango, soft bready malt, dry finish with notes of some sort of hard berry candy (Jolly Rancher?), florals and some bitter orange (but in flavour, low bitterness overall). Medium bodied, oily to creamy, average carbonation. Excellent hop saturation, feels like Galaxy is leading the show but it might also be that this year's Citra doesn't tend to be a juice bomb it seems. Fine with me, I love this profile!
Tried
from Can
on 03 Sep 2021
at 00:28
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours opaque orange-tinged yellow with a thick dense white head that's very stable with good lace. Aroma is pulpy navel orange, tangerine, raspberry and pink grapefruit, spicy juniper and pine, backnotes of coconut and mixed tropicals. Flavour is fairly dry but rich and saturated, notes of raspberry and pink grapefruit dominate, quite spicy (though not hot) pine, dill, moderate coconut creaminess, zesty grapefruit and raspberry dominating in the mid-to-finish. Oaty-feeling cereals but not much malt sweetness, delicately bready. Finish is dry, slightly mineral, raspberry and citrus oils with a little spicy cedar-type conifers. Medium-bodied, oily to creamy, soft carbonation. Talus and Sabro were driving the show here so whether this is tasty probably depends on your feeling about those hops; for me this was an unusually good Talus beer and I liked the hop profile.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Sep 2021
at 19:27
7/10
A hazed milky orange ipa with a thick frothy lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with dank resinous floral hops, light mineral notes, light tropical fruits, pleasant. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, light tropical fruits, very nice. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Aug 2021
at 17:33
8/10
A hazed golden ale with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, light mineral notes, pleasant and smooth. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, tropical fruit, very nice. On tap at brewery.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Aug 2021
at 17:21