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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9/10
Tried
from Draft
on 20 May 2017
at 10:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
500ml can from Hippo Beers. Pours clear golden orange with a thin white head. Aromas of caramel, resin and pine. Burnt grapefruit. Taste is sweet, juicy fruit, boiled orange. Bitter, oily finish.
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2017
at 13:17
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
(Can) Pours cloudy amber with slight off-white head. Lovely pine and citrus aroma. Great palate - plenty of body with bright and fine carbonation give lively and velvety feel. Excellent taste, especially the big change through the palate. Starts off with tangy citrus fruitiness and pine over some gentle caramel sweetness, the fruitiness drops away through themid platate with hints if biscuity malt and then the hoppy bitterness comes to the fore and remains for a long time. The alcohol is well hidden but gives some nice bite. Excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Apr 2017
at 05:02
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Can from Beer Zoo. Hazy golden/amber body with a medium off-white head. Steady carbonation. Faint lacing. Aroma of pine, caramel and grapefruit. Flavour of pine needles and mandarin. Medium body with an oily texture. Soft fizz. Mouth-tinglingly hoppy and bitter. On a side note, the top of Pirate Life’s can designs, which detail the process and ingredients, are very cool.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Apr 2017
at 22:37
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
slightly opalescent dark golden to orange colour, minimal creamy off-white head aroma and taste of pine resins, biscuits, tropical fruity notes, some floral honey and...and something what makes you fully aware that you are now drinking a BEER; great IIPA!
Tried
on 31 Mar 2017
at 16:27
10/10
Tried
on 12 Mar 2017
at 07:11
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Draught @ The Local Taphouse, Sydney, Australia. Pours hazy golden orange with an offwhite head, light lacings. Aroma of malt, caramel, fruity hops, tropical fruit, peach, citrus, grapefruit. Flavor is light sweet, fairly bitter, malt, fruity hops, citrus, pine, little alcohol. Medium to full body, average carbonation, bitter finish with light alcohol. 100317
Tried
from Draft
on 10 Mar 2017
at 01:43
Really clean dry piny pilthy beer wih Starburst sweets which reminds me of Stone Ruination. Ace
Tried
at
The Ale House
on 07 Mar 2017
at 20:02
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
500ml can. Orangey amber colour with a foamy white head leaving lacing and aroma of tropical mango, fruity citrus, hop resins. Taste is malt, caramel, a little sweetish toffee, with orange marmalade, grapefruit & pine, and resinous spicy hop bitterness. Medium bodied, soft carbonation, tangy dry and slightly sweetish bitter finish. Nicely drinkable.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Mar 2017
at 13:16
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at level 42. It pours amber with a small white head. The aroma is soft, sweet, sticky, dry ripe peach, apricot, mango, toffee, candied peel and tart tatin. The taste is sweet, bitter - sweet, pine needles, resin, toffee, nectarine, peach, orange peel, earth, candy and booze boost with adry, booze finish. Medium body and average carbonation. A bit old - school. Ok.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:13