Pirate Life California Pale Ale

TASTING NOTES

Whale Tale (aka Kyle Armstrong) is an Adelaide based artist. He’s also the winner of the inaugural ‘Can of Art’ competition held last year in collaboration with SALA and the Gilbert Street Hotel. Kyle’s prize? An epic one-off tin wrapped in his work. You might have seen the original piece on the Gilbert’s Russel Street façade. Inside the can you’ll catch a California Ale with a clean malt bill and liberal amounts of Mosaic, Strata, and Idaho-7 hops. Yep, Pirate Life has used them before. Yep, they’re bloody good strains. It pours golden with a fluffy head of foam. Expect aromas of stone fruit, black currant, and sticky pine. To drink, it’s clean and hoppy, with bright carbonation, and an assertive back palate bitterness.

BREWERY SNAPSHOT

Adelaide deserves to be famous for more than churches and an iced coffee fetish. Sunshine, great food, better wine and famous festivals; it was the obvious choice for Pirate Life. Adelaide might have funny tasting water, but that doesn’t stop them from making a darn good brew.

DID YOU KNOW?

Pirate Life choose cans over bottle because:
1. Cans no longer have that metallic taste, thanks to internal coating. Think of it as a mini keg.
2. Cans are more portable and durable.
3. They take far less energy to recycle than bottles.
4. They chill faster!