UPDATED: MAY 22, 2024 Pot at Pirate Life new South Melbourne venue. Pours clear gold orange with tight white head and lively carbonation. Aroma is hoppy, citrus, resin, dank and stone fruit with malt coming through. Flavour is very hop forward with sufficient malt balance. Taste is quite sweet which disguises the big bitterness that lingers. Mouthfeel is full but reasonably dry given the sweetness at first. Overall an excellent IIPA.

UPDATED: DEC 31, 2022 Canned (from Ales by Mail). Deep amber colour with a small off-white head. Aroma is grass, fruits and some sweet malts. Flavour is toffee, sweet malts, some bready and mild biscuity elements with a bunch of fruits, nectar and grassy bitterness kicking in too. Easy to drink, yet big'n'bold.

UPDATED: DEC 13, 2019 Can at Arde's residence, Helsinki. Color is clear light orange with small white head. Aromas and flavours: Fruits, hops and malts. Simple with little bit of boozy elements.

UPDATED: SEP 21, 2019 Hoppy nose and flavour. Pours golden and slightly cloudy with a decent sized head and light carbonation. Bitterness in flavour and possibly hints at the 8.8% strength. Quite easy drinking so potentially dangerous. Not much malt flavour

UPDATED: AUG 5, 2019 Bu le 04/08/2019 From a can, Served in a glass. La mousse est crémeuse, de couleur blanc cassé, mais s’estompe rapidement ! La bière est légèrement ambrée et trouble ! Au nez, nous sommes sur les fruits tropicaux :-) La bouche est fraîche, bien amère ! On perçoit cependant de légères notes de fruits et de houblon ! La texture est belle, avec de fines bulles. Enfin, la longueur est belle, tout en amertume :-)

UPDATED: MAY 10, 2019 Big flavoured double IPA in a 500ml can. Approach with caution but a delicious take on the double. Highly recommend.

UPDATED: MAY 5, 2019 A BIG IIPA, (in a good way). The hop forward beers are my favourite from this brewery, and this one has it in spades. Plus a whack of sweetness/booziness.

UPDATED: MAY 2, 2019 This was my first Pirate Life beer. Wonderful IIPA. Got a couple of 18 y.o.'s pretty hammered on just a couple of these in a shout. Young fellas didn't know what hit them. Great balanced beer with plenty of hops and the right amount of bready malt sweetness

UPDATED: APR 3, 2019 Thin off white head quickly left a collar on a hazy light copper coloured, finely carbonated body. Stewed fruit, malt, pine & grapefruit. Medium bodied, tingly over the tongue with soft back. Malt forward tastes with stewed fruit, pine & grapefruit & a bitter tangy finish.

UPDATED: APR 2, 2019 Dark amber. Loads of grassiness on nose plus some malt. Big and hoppy but for but with enough biscuit and crystal malts to end as a balanced belter of a beer.