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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7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can shared in London - many thanks to Danny. Pours clear honey-gold with a creamy, white head. The nose has some juicy citrus citrus, tangerine, melon, light pine. Medium sweet flavour with ripening citrus, orange, piney and grassy bitterness, tangerine. Medium to full bodied with average carbonation. Resinous finish with more juicy citrus fruits, pale bread, oily pine. Quite good in fact.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can split at L42, thanks to Daniel, 09/02/17. Lightly hazed golden orange with a decent off white head, Nose is sweet malts, grapefruit, spice, ornage ptih, grapefruit, mandarin. Taste comprises light pine, touch of skunk hop, orange peel, grapefruit, cantaloupe melon. Medium + body, fine carboantion, drying close peppered with earthy hop bitterness and a warming boost. Decent well balanced DIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:09
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Bottle shared on Level 42 09/2017. Many thanks to Daniel for this one. A clear golden orange coloured pour with a lasting loose off white head. Aroma is semi sweet, orange rind, spicy orange, semi sweet malts, caramel, . Little perfume on the nose. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, orange rind, little caramel, spicy citrus. Palate is semi sweet, medium bodied. Moderate carbonation. Decent.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:03
8/10
Tried
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:01
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can. Turner’s, Sheffield. Hazy gold. Thin, messy, lasting, just off white head. Slow moving and leggy. Handsome. Nose has plenty of spicy hop. Some coriander seed, and the like. Mouldy citrus fruit. Some pine bark. A bit gluey and phenolic. Taste is sweet and a little boozy. Gets spicy and piny bitter. Smooth mouthfeel that drinks under the ABV, despite the boozy aroma. More hop spice on the finish. Nice one.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2017
at 16:18
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
24th January 2017
Can. Light haze on this gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and fairly dry, good fine crispness. Light malts, mildly sweet, a little light malt cream. Hops are bitterish and bring mellow skunk. Spicy pine. Citric peel bitterness. Good tropical fruits on the back end, ripe mango rising above the crowd. More hop spice on the semi dry finish. Comes together very well indeed. Would be nice to know what hops were used. I would guess Galaxy, Ella and maybe Summer. What a treat to get good and fresh beers from down under.
Can. Light haze on this gold beer, good pale cream colour head. Palate is airy and fairly dry, good fine crispness. Light malts, mildly sweet, a little light malt cream. Hops are bitterish and bring mellow skunk. Spicy pine. Citric peel bitterness. Good tropical fruits on the back end, ripe mango rising above the crowd. More hop spice on the semi dry finish. Comes together very well indeed. Would be nice to know what hops were used. I would guess Galaxy, Ella and maybe Summer. What a treat to get good and fresh beers from down under.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2017
at 10:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Keg at Mason and Co, Hackney, London, Saturday 21st January 2017 walking from Tottenham Hale to Olympic Park via Lea Valley the walk is from Londons Hidden Walks Warm gold in colour with a sticky white head, a little marmalade in fact a lot of marmalade, a steady hoppy bitterness, resiny, sweetness, gums receive a little workout, a little alcohol warmth from the alcohol. Very good A7 A4 T8 P4 Ov16 3.9
Tried
on 21 Jan 2017
at 07:56
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can from Craftissimo at home. Slightly translucent deep orange amber pour with dense white head. Aroma is sharply hoppy boozy and toffee sweet all at once like Tuatara Double Trouble - dank and ripe fruit too. Taste is very big - dank pine bitterness with sharp boozy bite and sweet caramel malty richness. Really good but the IPA was even better.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Nov 2016
at 09:59
8.5/10
Tried
from Can
on 12 Jun 2016
at 10:23
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
500mL can, pours a clear copper with a medium white head. Nose brings out loads of piney hops upfront, backed by dry biscuity malt. Flavour brings out truckloads of piney hops, backed by light biscuity malt. Potent and yet wonderfully refined. I wish all Aussie beers were this excellent.
Tried
from Can
on 12 May 2016
at 08:50