this episode is part of our australia pale ale series today's beer is pirate life pale ale
hello from beer australia reviews and today we will be sampling tasting and reviewing another
one of the pirate life beers this time it's their flagship pale ale now pilot life is a relatively
new micro brewery it's been around since 2014 it's from adelaide in south australia the pale
ale was one of the first beers that they started to make well obviously every single micro brewery
in australia makes it pale and they've been making this one from 2015 onwards now i've tried a few of
the pilot life beers in the last few months and i especially like the imperial india pale ale which
comes out at like a 8.8 percent and comes in a big can as well it's a big beer but this is the first
time i've tried the pirate life pale ale this should be their flagship beer this one this should
be the one that they make the biggest efforts with because the pale ale is always the go-to
beer for everybody who's having a a craft beer let's have a look read this one hardy bitterness
and generous dose of citrus and pine we're not making any claims this time around about any
type of tropical fruits in there or fruity aromas or not stating any particular food that we
need to look for so it's open for interpretation hoppy bold and pours a wicked rusty bronze
with its rusty bronze then why is it called a pale ale pirate life i've tried a few of them
and let's try their pale ale oh immediately i am getting some aroma from this well done pirate
life you've made a good beer the other thing is this is a a west coast style so it should pour
clear smells good lots of sparkle the head on this one's quite dense and foamy
oh that looks really nice oh that looks like a lovely beer
lots of aroma coming off this one it looks good it smells good there's lots of small bubbles in
this one a sparkle to it dense foamy head head's going down a little bit it's been in
the glass for a minute or two i didn't make a note of the type of hops they do note it
on the website i'll have to look that up later but whatever hops in there are definitely
giving us some floral aromas it's coming over to me really well right now let's give it a try
yep there's citrus in there and what else does it say pine doesn't say resinous pine
citrus and pines a hoppy bold and pours with a wicked rusty bronze definitely a bronze colour
one of the darkest looking pale ales that i've come across so
a pale ale should be pale that's why they call it a pale ale strangely enough and so
darker and colour than some looks good though look at that i like that let's give it a try
oh it's got a sharp bitterness across your tongue but it's also got a sweetness in there as well
oh and there's a big hit of wait for grapefruit
sharp and tangy and there's a bitterness that's getting get me all across the mouth
so this has got a big flavour inside it lots of bitterness so there's a lot of grapefruits
in the background on this one and it's not hitting me all the way to the back it's got
a nice aroma but it's not the most floral and flowery and it's certainly not a tropical style
so there's no things like mango or nectarines and stuff in this one
a lot of grapefruit on this one but it's also despite the the bitterness there's like the the
grapefruit also has like a sweetness in there as well so this is a really good beer mr life
or can i call you pirate? pirate life brewing of adelaide south australia let me have some more
the pine is coming out now pine has taken me longer to get to than the citrus
tang across the tongue bitterness across the tongue as well oh there's absolute
grapefruits in this one i think they've him squeeze the grapefruit in half into every can
so it's 5.4 percent clear west coast style pale ale out of all the pale ales that have
tried recently that is actually the the clearest one even the ones that call themselves a west
coast pale ale which should be completely clear i've found that most of them these days actually
do still have some cloudiness in them so the cloudiness is more of an east
coast style but this one west coast style and this is west coast usa and east coast
usa this is where the two styles of beers sort of developed over the last like 20 or 30 years
not the most abundant of aromas but it's got abundant taste and it's got a few different
layers of taste as well but that is an overwhelming grapefruit on this one
but very definitely this is a beer i can 100% recommend if you see this one on draft
apparently they have on draft in certain places i don't know whether there's anywhere
in western australia and perth where we can get this on draft if i see it i will definitely
try it but if you see some of this one in your local bottle shop do definitely try some this
turned out to be one of my favorite beers pirate life pale ale from adelaide thanks for watching