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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 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours opaque bright yellow with a thick white head and lace. Aroma is funky pineapple, peach, tangerine, melon, a little dank resin, touch floral, soft bready malt. Flavour is fruity up front, nice canned peach and mango sweetness, some pineapple, smooth lightly bready malt. Mid-sip some floral berry candy, citrus and melon rinds and resinous hops appear, and the finish is dry with astringent florals, a bit medicinal, peppery hops for Badlands, touch of plastic. Moderately bitter peppery aftertaste. Medium-bodied, classic Badlands creamy carbonation. This is solid but I was a little disappointed, not my favourite Badlands. I thought I would love the hop profile but the drier house style doesn't hold hop burn so well and the finish was a touch weird on the whole.
Tried from Can on 15 May 2021 at 02:05

8.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Can. Opaque.Frothy head. Big peachy/apricotty hop aroma, with lots of galaxy accent in there as well. On the palate, nice bitterness, and again a ton of stone fruit hop notes. Bright. The mouthfeel is a bit dry and chalky but the malts have a decent white sugar sweetness to them. This is good stuff.
Tried from Can on 13 May 2021 at 04:52

7/10
My first Badlands gusher... A milky yellow ipa with a thick frothy lacing white head, overcarbonated. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with loads of resinous floral hops, light mineral notes, tropical fruit, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity malt with resinous floral hops, light mineral notes, light tropical fruits, very nice. Can from brewery.
Tried from Can on 09 May 2021 at 19:45

6.8/10 — Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can. Hazy yellow. At a distance this has a big subtropical hop note, but up close it comes across a bit green and chalky. On the palate, the malts are faint and sweet, the bitterness only moderate. But the hops are high in quantity and that definitely makes it a bit green. Pushing the envelope a bit.
Tried from Can on 09 May 2021 at 04:25

8.2/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near opaque gold with a decent white head showing good retention and lace. Aroma is thick with tangerine, grapefruit, mango, blueberry and pine, fairly dank and multi-layered. Flavour is tangerine and dank mango up front, juicy but pretty resinous, with conifer needles, peppery aromatic citrus zest, cannabis, blueberry and a little lemon, moderately bready malt, semi-sweet on the attack and drying in the finish with low to moderate bitterness, heavy dank hop cone and grapefruit peel vibes, bluerberry skins and a little hop burn into the aftertaste. Medium-bodied, soft and creamy, with average carbonation that prickles a bit by Badlands standards. Intense sticky Mosaic showing all its faces, the additional hopping rate here vs. most Badlands DIPAs definitely comes through and I hope they continue to move in this direction.
Tried from Can on 02 May 2021 at 19:00

7/10
A milky yellow ipa with a thick frothy lacing white head. In aroma, nice biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit, tropical fruit, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, grapefruit pulp, light tropical fruits, very nice and smooth. Can from brewery.
Tried from Can on 01 May 2021 at 21:50

7/10
A hazed orange DIPA with a thin lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with orange pulp, light tropical fruits, resinous hops, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, alcohol warmth, light doughy character, pleasant.
Tried on 01 May 2021 at 01:25

7/10
A hazed golden ipa with a thick frothy lacing white head. In aroma, sweet fruity biscuit malt with loads of dank resinous citrusy floral hops, grapefruit, very nice. In mouth, a nice sweet fruity biscuit malt with resinous floral hops, citrus pulp, tropical fruit, very nice.
Tried on 01 May 2021 at 00:12

8/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 6 Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near-opaque yellow-gold with a decent white head and a little lace. Aroma of lots of fresh and slightly dank leafiness, mixed citrus, white grape, soft berries, mixed 'tropical fruit juice' sweetness, a touch of tanginess, soft bready malt. Flavour is lead by fairly sweet and lightly tangy orange pulp, citrus zest, berries (especially strawberry), nice leafiness, some dank overtones, touch of conifer needle, smooth bready malt, a bit more mineral and crisp than some Badlands IPAs, softly bready malt, off-dry finish with orange and berries, soft peppery hop cone accents, fairly low bitterness. Long orange peel aftertaste. Medium bodied, moderate carb, a touch less creamy and more prickly than the current house style. I'm not convinced by the various water profile experiments, but this is yet another tasty IPA from Badlands; like a more rounded version of the Pedestals with Talus and HBC630.
Tried from Can on 27 Apr 2021 at 21:25

8.5/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 9
(473ml can c/o Luc, thanks!) Pours near-opaque yellow with a thick white head and lace. Aroma of dank ripe funky pineapples, mix of musky tropical fruit that reminds me of a market in Bangkok, foral punchiness of lychee, candied pit fruit, hint of the flavour (not aroma) of durian. Flavour is semi-sweet and very floral-fruity, tons of lychee and mangosteen, peaches, candied yuzu peels, hints of pineapple, subtle peppery hop burn, malt is lightly bready, drying finish with fairly low bitterness. Medium-bodied, oily to creamy, with average carbonation (a little high for Badlands house style). I love this, big expressive Galaxy floral tropical fruit notes. It's not everyone's cup of tea but as a big Galaxy fan this nailed it for me.
Tried from Can on 25 Apr 2021 at 20:40