IIPA
Pirate Life Brewing in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 🇦🇺
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
7.44
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Pirate Life’s IIPA (Imperial India Pale Ale) brewed with Centennial, Zues, Mosaic and Simcoe comes in a 500ml can and comes on like a freight train, bursting with citrus aromas and belting you in the back palate with hop bitterness. Fortunately all that action is balanced by a strong hop base and what they call “fun juice”; that is, alcohol. The IIPA is 8.8 per cent alcohol by volume. It is a lot, but it adds an important rounding quality to the beer.
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5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Keg at ushers... Golden amber.. Herbal medicinal water nose... Long dry herbal toffee malts
Tried
on 28 Jul 2017
at 10:05
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can @ Wolf, Birmingham. Hazy golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty, caramel, fruity and rather hoppy - fruity and citrus. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and rather bitter finish. 270717
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2017
at 15:42
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can @ Wolf, Birmingham. Nice head with good duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are rich bitter hops, fruits, flowers, malt and has a long bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Jul 2017
at 15:37
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Keg at ushers. Pours clear golden, nose is grass, cereal, herbal, taste is juicy citrus, pine, herbal.
Tried
on 25 Jul 2017
at 01:57
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6
At a tasting, thanks, almost no head, quite clear orange color, aroma of mandarine, orange blossom and some wood in the back, flavor of peach and apricot with some citrus, quite sweet with alcohol coming through, heavy and a bit one dimensional. Fair but not too exciting.
Tried
on 18 Jul 2017
at 03:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Poured from the tap. Hazy golden orange with white head. Biscuity malt with tropical and mild pine hops, hint of skunk. Nice balance.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jul 2017
at 10:18
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Can sample at a tasting at Tom L’s place. Thanks troubles. Slightly hazy golden. Malt, slightly stale fruity hops, citric, sweetish, bitter finish, a bit of alcohol. OK, kinda sweet and not fresh enough.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jul 2017
at 09:31
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
500ml can. Pours a nice copper colour with haze and fine sediment floating around, one finger off-white head, looks amazing. Aroma: malty, piney resin, citrus fruits. Taste: follows suit from the aroma, big sweet malty base, piney resin and citrus fruit hops, moderate bitter finish. Medium body, smooth mouthfeel, average carbonation, actually one of the easiest drinking DIPAs I’ve ever had. This is an outstanding old school DIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 28 Jun 2017
at 23:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml can from Ales by Mail. Canned 250816 (sadpanda). Pours clear orange with a smooth head. Aroma of caramely malts, toffee, pine, resinous hops, herbal notes, grass and citrus. Taste is sweet, sticky and caramely malty with some piney notes, grass, herbal hops and citrus. Finish is herbal hoppy, resinous and piney with some sweet caramely malts and aged grassy hoppy notes. Heavy and sweetish old skool DIPA, but unfortunately not very fresh.
Tried
from Can
on 23 Jun 2017
at 11:32
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Tap at Brewdog Birmingham. Poured a clear medium amber with a thin broken white head. The aroma is grainy malt, light fruit, aromatic hop and light alcohol. The flavour is moderate to strong bitter with a big rich alcoholic fruit, woody resin hop bitter palate. Medium bodied with average carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Jun 2017
at 15:35