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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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
500ml can ($11!) into shaker. Well..smells like a forest full of juicy-fruit, newly mown lawn and pine needles. Golden copper coloured beer with solid white head. Many fine bubbles ascend. Full-bodied with subtle hops and grains. Finish is a lingering aspirin bitterness. Amazingly easy to drink (8.8%!). There’s a cleansing dry fruity bitterness at the end but really this beer is just yum! Lovely.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2016
at 07:36
5.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Draught as part of a paddle at New Brighton Hotel, Sydney, on October 12, 2015.Bitter, hoppy, alcohol taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium high bitterness. Clear golden color, white head with lacing. Malty, alcohol, fruity scent.
Tried
on 16 Oct 2015
at 08:04
8.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
From a 500ml can on 29/9/2015.Pours a slightly cloudy deep golden with a big foamy head. Has a gorgeous floral aroma featuring masses of tropical fruit, zesty citrus and spice. The flavour is huge - a big caramel malt background, lots of sweet apricot, mango and peach, honey spice and rye. It features a huge herbal, resiny bitterness, providing perfect balance to the sweetness up front. The palate is thick and a bit syrupy with average carbonation. Fuck this is good stuff - it’s got great length, complexity and character, and is supremely harmonious. A truly world class DIPA and one of the finest Australian beer I’ve downed so far.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Sep 2015
at 05:45
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours amber with a large head.Nose shows pine, resinous notes, sweet heavy malt, spicy hops and pineapple.Rich flavours too, more sweet clean malt but with heaps of piny and resinous hops.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2015
at 00:22
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Can. Clear amber with an off-white head that doesn’t last all that well. Aroma of peach, pine, oranges, pepper, a little toast. Not a blast of hops, quite delicate. Sweet with (thankfully) more stonefruit than caramel, some bread, a little not entirely welcome dried fruit. Very strong bitterness and citrus and lesser pine and peppery flavours pinch off the sweetness and it dries out enough to stop it from seeming really heavy. A little overt alcohol at the end and there is a degree to which the bitterness becomes a roar after a while. Clearly owes something to BrewDog’s Hardcore. Interesting (and good) that this is nothing like a beefed up version of their pale ale. Impressive.
Tried
from Can
on 06 May 2015
at 07:56