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 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
500ml can. Pours bright orange with a little haze. Caramel, grapefruit, lime, floral, strong bitterness, plenty sweet caramel. Nice.
Tried
from Can
on 14 Feb 2018
at 08:33
7.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sample courtesy of Namtons. Thick creamy white head. Hazy amber pour. Lovely bitterness. Delicious.
Tried
on 28 Dec 2017
at 03:28
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can from Park Fever, Hither Green. Amber pour with a white head. Pineapple, apricot, toffee, vanilla and banana aroma. Flavours of caramel, vanilla, citrus, tangerine. Bitter citrus linger in the finish. Tasty stuff.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Nov 2017
at 12:50
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8
Can 500ml. Delicate hazy, amber colour. White-yellowish, medium head. Aroma is malty with toast note and a lot of hops with sweet tropical fruits notes, really nice, good balanced. Hoppy in taste with high, long bitterness with resin, citrus, tropical fruits notes and small booze at the end which burns delicate in the throat but does not disturb, generally it is aggresive, I mean very good. Beer is medium body, delicate oily, malty, smooth and light, drinkable at the same time. There is great balance between hops and malt. Really good IIPA.
Tried
from Can
on 16 Oct 2017
at 06:43
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pours nice golden, quite clear and white foam. Aroma has lots of sweet tropical fruits, some hop resins and hint of citric bitterness. Thick, hop syrup dripping mango and caramelised orange. Taste is sweetish, lots of tropical fruits and caramelised citrus fruits in there as well. I guess hops have faded a bit during the long journey - but still great beer, tastes nicely hoppy and refreshing. Which is a lot to say about 8,8% IIPA. Well balanced and drinks smooth.
Tried
on 08 Oct 2017
at 11:56
6/10
Tried
on 06 Oct 2017
at 21:57
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Tap at brewdog. Pours golden. Aroma is hoppy, piney, citric. Flavor is sweet and bitter, pine, citrus. Finish is dry and resinous. Overall: good dry ipa.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Sep 2017
at 10:22
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at the Wolf; clear amber pour with a thin white head, aroma has light caramel, taste has smooth malts, light tangerine, sweet caramel.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Aug 2017
at 07:16
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Keg @ The Wolf, Birmingham. Pours hazy golden amber, large off-white head. Aroma is caramel, pine, resin. Taste seems fairly heavy on crystal malt, with equal distribution of resinous pine and shades of peachy fruits. Not my kind of IPA.
Tried
on 22 Aug 2017
at 09:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can sampled at Chris and Ruth’s Pre Gbbf Shindig 2017. A clear deep golden beer with a small white head. Aroma of apricot, fruity bitter hops. Taste of strong bitter hops, apricot, spruce, intense long bitter finish.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Aug 2017
at 07:56