Giving the huge number of badges, I’ve decided to reprise the format I use for Good Beer Week rather than write a post longer than most novels. It’s still going to be an enormous post, but this is a more manageable approach.
Some quick stats on this monstrous post for you before I get going. The post is 5,191 words long – I’m sure it’s my longest ever! There are 80 different badges pictured and described, with 219 different levels across them!
I’ve spent the best part of 6 weeks trying to get this post completed and have slowly come to the conclusion that it’s an impossibility; every time I sit down to write I just unlock more and more badges. When the number clocked over 200 – I gave up and reverted to the format you see below. This post will double as a good reference post if anyone out there is looking to understand how to unlock most of the different badges.
Home Brewed Goodness is the badge unlocked by drinking beers classified as Home Brews. Unlike most badges, this one is unlocked in levels of two rather than 5 beers.
- Full Toss The Astle (Level 7)
- Full Toss The Geeves (Level 8)
- Full Toss Marylebrew (2017) (Level 9)
- Full Toss Nets Sesh Tart Apple & Strawberry Cider (Level 10)
- Full Toss The New Ball (Level 11)
- Full Toss Nets Sesh Stringy Bark Mead (Level 12)
- Full Toss The Reiffel (Level 13)
Middle of the Road is one of those badges that annoyed me endlessly when it was released. Literally every 6th or 7th beer I had would unlock this badge! Thankfully with Untappd finally allowing retroactive check-ins to count towards badges there were only four more of these! It’s unlocked by drinking beers between 5.1%-9.9%ABV.
- Brouwerij Roman Rebelse Strop (Level 16)
- Mountain Goat Silence of the Rees (Level 17)
- DouGall’s Tres Mares (Level 18)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 100)
Trip to the Farm is the badge for drinking different Saisons. Saisons are sometimes referred to as Farmhouse Ales, in honour of the the farms that these beers were traditionally brewed on in Belgium.
- Brouwerij Roman Rebelse Strop (Level 25)
- Ægir Sorachi Saison (Level 26)
- La Sirene Saison (Level 27)
Drink Like a Kiwi is unlocked by drinking beers from Australia’s nearest neighbour; New Zealand. It would be hard to pick four better breweries from NZ, than those that were unlocked by the badges listed below.
- Epic Hysteria (Level 43)
- ParrotDog DeadCanary (Level 44)
- 8 Wired Cosmic Chaos (Level 49)
- Garage Project Hazelnut Bruin (Level 50)
- Stomping Ground Upside Down (Level 19)
- Stone & Wood Pacific Ale (Level 20)
- Ægir Sorachi Saison (Level 51)
- James Squire Nine Tales (Level 52)
- Stone Hop Revolver IPA #5 (Level 58)
2X is unlocked by checking into beers with “Imperial” or “Double” in the style name; ie. Imperial Brown Ale or Double IPA. As you can see below, I’ve had quite a few recently…
- De Molen Rasputin (Level 26)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 67)
- Prairie Paradise (Level 68)
- Amager Minor Axident (Level 69)
- Brewski Donkeyboy (Level 70)
- Brewski Mangofeber (Level 71)
- Lervig Supersonic (Level 72)
- Modus Operandi Future Factory (Level 73)
- Amager The Mortician (Level 74)
Bar Explorer is a badge that commemorates the different locations that you’ve checked a beer in at. I’m not sure if this wasn’t a bug in the system, but a VB at our new apartment unlocked the final level of this badge for me.
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 99)
- Victoria Bitter (Level 100)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 30)
- BrewDog Abstrakt AB:23 (Level 31)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 100)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 100)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 21)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 35)
- Prancing Pony Hunt for Red Velvet (Level 100)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Boneyard] West Coast DIPA (Level 32)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Tree House] East Meets West IPA (Level 33)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Duvel] Hoppy Belgian-Style Golden Ale (Level 34)
- The Booth [To Øl] Glowing Pig (Level 35)
- Breakside [Lompoc & 10 Barrel] Passionfruit Sour Ale (Level 36)
- De Molen [Omnipollo] SitiS (Level 37)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Boneyard] West Coast DIPA (Level 92)
- To Øl Jule Mælk (Level 93)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Avery] Dry Hopped Barley Wine (Level 94)
- Fremont Interurban IPA (Level 95)
- Full Toss Marylebrew 2017 (Level 96)
- Coedo [Fieldwork] Gattsu Pozu (Level 97)
- Epic Double Geddon (Level 98)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Boneyard] West Coast DIPA (Level 91)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Ayinger] Dunkle Weisse (Level 92)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Kiuchi] White IPA with Yuzu (Level 93)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Surly] Ginger Lager (Level 94)
- Revision IPA (Level 95)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Garage Project] Campout Porter (Level 96)
- Almanac Tangerine de Brettaville (Level 97)
- Founders Green Zebra (Level 98)
- Prairie Vape Tricks (Level 99)
- Full Toss The Boult (Level 71)
- Brewski Mangohallonfeber (Level 72)
- To Øl Fuck Art This is Architecture (Level 73)
- Deep Creek Kombi (Level 74)
- West City Sunshine Ale (Level 100)
- Cerveza Zulia (Level 64)
- Negro Modelo (Level 65)
- Akasha Tradewind Lager (Level 66)
- Hawkers Lager (Level 67)
- Cerveza Zulia (Level 2)
- Cricketer’s Arms Spearhead (Level 15)
- Cascade Lager (Level 57)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [St Arnold] Dry Hopped Berliner (Level 58)
- Boatrocker Asterix (Level 59)
- Tuatara Weiz Guy (Level 60)
- Boulevard American Kolsch (Level 61)
- Breakside Passionfruit Sour Ale (Level 63)
- Lucky Bay Wharton (Level 64)
- BrewDog Prototype Blonde Ale (Level 65)
- De Molen [Magic Rock] Magic & Tricks (Level 66)
- Modus Operandi Former Tenant (Level 27)
- Mornington Mimas (Level 28)
- Stockade HBA (Level 13)
- Feral F-15 (Level 14)
- Omnipollo Anagram (Level 35)
- Full Toss Marylebrew (2017) (Level 36)
- Boatrocker Banshee (Level 37)
- BrewDog Abstrakt AB:23 (Level 38)
- Omnipollo Anagram (Level 66)
- Angkor Extra Stout (Level 67)
- Boatrocker Oatmeal Stout (Level 68)
- The Bruery Share This Coffee (Level 69)
- Full Toss QF772 (Level 70)
- Omnipollo Anagram (Level 5)
- Brewski Donkeyboy (Level 6)
- Brewski Three Fourteen (Level 7)
- Omnipollo Aurora (Level 8)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Ayinger] Dunkle Weisse (Level 3)
- Ægir Sorachi Saison (Level 13)
- To Øl Jule Mælk (Level 4)
- Batch Elsie the Milk Stout (Level 5)
- To Øl Jule Mælk (Level 29)
- To Øl Limon (Level 30)
- To Øl Liquid Confidence (Level 31)
- Boatrocker Time Lord (Level 61)
- Full Toss Slow Gose Rate (Level 62)
- Breakside Passionfruit Sour Ale (Level 63)
- Stomping Ground Gose Your Own Way (Level 64)
- Mikkeller SpontanYuzu (Level 65)
- Blackman’s You’re Turning Violet (Level 66)
- Boatrocker Time Lord (Level 3)
- Boatrocker Time Lord (Level 12)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [St Arnold] Dry Hopped Berliner (Level 14)
- Full Toss The New Ball (Level 15)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [The Bruery] Raspberry Sundae (Level 23)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Duvel] Hoppy Belgian Golden (Level 24)
- Western Ridge SummeRye (Level 25)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Fuller’s] Vintage (Level 11)
- Boatrocker October Beer (Level 12)
- Mornington Imperial Stout (2017) (Level 11)
- Angkor Extra Stout (Level 37)
- Amager Minor Axident (Level 38)
- Boulevard Tropical Pale Ale (Level 39)
- Stomping Ground Gose Your Own Way (Level 40)
- BrewDog Prototype Tangerine Session IPA (Level 41)
- Angkor Extra Stout (Level 12)
- Pirate Life Mosaic IPA (Level 13)
- Angkor Extra Stout (Level 1)
- James Squire Jack of Spades (Level 20)
- Red Hill The Red Rooster (Level 1)
- Old Wives Ales New Tricks (Level 8)
- DouGall’s Leyenda (Level 3)
- Batch Hopsy Mozy Nitro IPA (Level 37)
- BrewDog Pump Action Poet (Level 44)
- BrewDog Jet Black Heart (Level 45)
- BrewDog Prototype Tangerine Session IPA (Level 46)
- BrewDog Pump Action Poet (Level 15)
- BrewDog Tokyo* (Level 16)
- BrewDog Slot Machine (Level 17)
- BrewDog Prototype Vienna Lager (Level 18)
- Sierra Nevada B.C. [Avery] Dry Hopped Barley Wine (Level 5)
- The Booth [To Øl] Glowing Pig (Level 31)
- Dainton Draught (Level 32)
- To Øl Limon (Level 1)
- Boulevard American Kolsch (Level 4)
- Founders Backwoods Bastard (Level 4)
- 3 Ravens Little Raven Tripel (Level 11)
- La Sirene Forêt Sauvage (Level 12)
- Full Toss Slow Gose Rate (Level 9)
- Saint Archer Peach Gose (Level 10)
- Blackman’s You’re Turning Violet (Level 11)
- 4 Pines In Season IPA No. 5 (Level 5)
- Stone & Wood Pacific Ale
- The Bruery Quadrupel Tonnellerie
- Old Wives Ales Hair of the Dog XPA
- Pirate Life Mosaic IPA
- Pirate Life Mosaic IPA (Level 63)
- BrewDog Pump Action Poet (Level 64)
- Blackman’s Juicy Banger (Level 65)
- Moon Dog Beer Can (Level 66)
- Yeastie Boys White Noise (Level 67)
- Garage Project Loral Royale (Level 68)
- Garage Project Pernicious Weed (Level 69)
- Mikkeller SpontanYuzu (Level 70)
- Pirate Life IPA (Level 71)
- Wolf of the Willows XPA (Level 72)
- Wolf of the Willows XPA (Level 73)
- Mr Banks Wheeze the Juice (Level 74)
- Sailors Grave Peach Melba (Level 75)
- Prairie Vape Tricks (Level 76)
- Lervig Lucky Jack Extra Hard (Level 77)
- Arrogant Bastard Ale (Level 78)
- BrewDog Slot Machine (Level 79)
- Kaiju Krush! (Level 80)
- Hawkers West Coast IPA (Level 81)
- Morrison Batch 400 (Level 94)
- Brewski 50 States of Freedom (Level 95)
- Seven Sheds Mole Kriek (Level 96)
- Coopers Best Extra Stout (Level 97)
- Hawkers Imperial Stout BBA (2017) (Level 98)
- 4 Pines Keller Door; Australian DIPA (Level 99)
- Red Hill Imperial Stout (Level 100)
- Lucky Bay Wharton (Level 10)
- Yeastie Boys White Noise (Level 11)
- Kozel Premium Lager (Level 8)
- Trumer Pils (Level 5)
- 3 Ravens Lemon Juicy
- Stomping Ground Gose Your Own Way (Level 47)
- To Øl Dangerously Close to Stupid Amounts of Guava (Level 48)
- Wolf of the Willows Homage (Level 49)
- Full Toss The Boult (Level 50)
- XXXX Gold (Level 51)
- XXXX Gold (Level 52)
- XXXX Gold (Level 53)
- XXXX Gold (Level 54)
- XXXX Gold (Level 55)
- James Squire Tall Tales (Level 56)
- The Bruery Share This; Coffee
- Full Toss The Carberry (Level 9)
- Fierce Beer Cranachan Killer (Level 10)
- Bad Shepherd Amber Rye Ale (Level 6)
- Black Dog Aussie Terrier (Level 10).
- Fixation Obsession (Level 11)
- Monteith’s Black (Level 7)
- Kees West Coast IPA (Level 8)
- De Molen [Magic Rock] Magic & Tricks (Level 9)
Thanksgiving is one of these American holidays that we don’t really celebrate in Australia. The closest I get o thanksgiving is the badge they release every year, in this case Beer-giving (2017). It had to be unlocked over the thanksgiving weekend.
- Wolf of the Willows XPA
Winter Wonderland is unlocked by drinking a beer which has the word “winter” in its name or style (ie. Winter Warmer). Some other words, such as celebration, also seem to trigger this badge. It’s a confusing one, and one that seems to pop up randomly.
- Left Barrel Schwarzbier (Level 8)
As part of my trip to Adelaide for the Test Match, we dropped in on Coopers Stadium, the night before the cricket started, to take in some A-League soccer. Tailgater, a badge for checking into different sporting stadia, was unlocked by a full strength Coopers Pale Ale – something I’d like to see at more sporting venues!
- Coppers Pale Ale (Level 3)
Bocks are a style of beer that I’ve never really warmed to. I’ll Be Bock is the badge that celebrates all types of Bocks. This includes Eisbocks, like this 22% offering from BrewDog that was big, bitter and boozy! It’s one of the most unique things I’ve tasted and is something I couldn’t pass up if I see it again.
- BrewDog Hop Shot (Level 4)
- Hawkers Lager (Level 6)
Hoppy Hanukkah (2017) was released, like it is every year, to commemorate the 8 days of Hanukkah. Simply check-in to any beer during this time to unlock this badge – with any luck you’ll still have a day or two after I finally finish this post!
- BrewDog Elvis Juice
Wailing for Wales is the badge for drinking Welsh beers. Like almost all other badges, simply check-in 5 different beers from Wales and this badge is all yours. Tiny Rebel is really the only Welsh brewery that has beers regularly available in Australia – hopefully we see more in the not too distant future.
- Tiny Rebel Mojito Sour (Level 2)
After what seems like months, possibly because it has actually been months, this blog post is finally going up! The sheer number of Untappd badges these days, especially coupled with retroactivity made the task of writing the post in the normal manner almost impossible. I apologise for the formatting on this post – it just had to go up, so hopefully I’ll fix it shortly. I’ve got a lot of stuff I want to get up in the next 5-6 weeks and I hope to be posting more regularly next year now that my studying is finalized. Thanks for your support guys, I’m hoping to get 2-4 posts up before the New Year so stay tuned!
Remember it’s always Beer O’Clock somewhere in the world!