SEPTEMBER 5, 2025
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Invitation
Tasting menu from September 5, 2025
BREWERY • CITY • BEER • STYLE • ABV • TASTING NOTES • UNTAPPD RATING
BADLANDS BREWING
CALEDON, ON
MIST (2025)
PALE ALE – NEW ENGLAND • 5.6% ABV
Mist is a smaller version of our IPA “Fog.” We wanted to take this recipe and scale down the alcohol, while keeping the hopping rate identical to our IPA for maximum session-ability. Hopped with Citra, Nectaron and Superdelic this beer is a delectable medley of dank pineapple, soft orange and tropical fruit.
4.2 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 49 Untappd ratings
SILVERSMITH BREWING
NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE, ON
THE GREEN HIT
IPA – NEW ENGLAND • 6.9% ABV
This IPA Pours a radiant yellow with orange hues and a lasting white head. It hits hard with dank aromas of pine, citrus, and ripe pineapple from Simcoe, Columbus, and Nelson Sauvin hops. It is dosed with Pineapple Express cannabis terpenes but contains no THC or CBD.
3.95 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 97 Untappd ratings
BADLANDS BREWING
CALEDON, ON
TEXTBOOK (2025)
IPA – NEW ENGLAND • 6.5% ABV
Everyone knows the playbook on modern IPA. You take Citra & Mosaic hops, oats, and an English yeast strain and BAM! You’ve got yourself the prototypical hazy monster that is NEIPA. That’s what this beer is, straight out of the textbook on modern IPA.
3.95 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 97 Untappd ratings
NICKEL BROOK BREWING
BURLINGTON, ON
KENTUCKY BASTARD (2016)
STOUT – IMPERIAL / DOUBLE • 14.7% ABV
We kicked it up a notch with our Bolshevik Bastard Imperial Stout, aging it in Kentucky Bourbon barrels. The rich chocolate, coffee and dark fruit flavours from our Imperial Stout are married together with the vanilla, oak and warming alcohol from bourbon barrels. Together as one, the result is an incredible blend of aroma and taste. Drink it today or cellar it to enjoy later as it matures.
4.28 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 15 Untappd ratings
BADLANDS BREWING
CALEDON, ON
BASIL HAYDEN (House Yeast)
STOUT – IMPERIAL / DOUBLE • 11.9% ABV
For our eight anniversary we wanted to bring back some single barrel showcases of the streams that make up our barrel aged stout program. This is 1 of the 3 barrels that make up the blend known as “Streams,” presented on its own, unblended.
This beer is our house yeast stream of stouts. This is the house yeast we use to ferment our IPA, and the majority of our stout program. It is vigorous, delicious, and such a great work horse for us. Legit the brewery MVP! It was aged in a Basil Hayden barrel for 19 months.
4.22 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 3,633 Untappd ratings
BURDOCK BREWERY
TORONTO, ON
LIT PICKLE
HARD SELZER • 5.5% ABV
We taste notes of tangerine, mandarin orange, papaya and tropical fruit. These hops are besties for the resties and it’s no accident they’re the “go to“ for the style. They work incredibly well together.
4.35 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 30 Untappd ratings
BADLANDS BREWING
CALEDON, ON
MANIA (2025)
IPA – NEW ENGLAND • 6.5% ABV
They say that mania is a condition where you have abnormally elevated and or extreme changes in your mood, emotions, or energy. It’s generally abnormally energized and is a change from your usual self noticeable by others. Usually this has a negative association, but not here! Because we are MANIC for this beer!
Hopped with Nelson, Riwaka, and Peacharine this is just the biggest baddest, most NZ hopped beer. Ripe in dank red berry, tropical gooseberry and nectarine, we’re abnormally energized about this beer just thinking about it!
4.35 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 30 Untappd ratings
BREWERY RODENBACH
ROESELARE, BELGIUM
RODENBACH VINTAGE (2021)
FLANDERS RED ALE • 7% ABV
Rodenbach Vintage is a unique, unblended Flanders Red-Brown ale beer that is matured in oak casks for two years. Only the best casks are used, after which I subject the beer to a strict sampling selection. Rodenbach Vintage has a uniquely balanced acidic taste and a long, fresh and fruity aftertaste. Honoured with several gold awards. — Rudi Ghequire, brewmaster.
3.82 out of 5 Bottle Caps based on 11,459 Untappd ratings
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