Piratelife x Dilmah Tea & Biccies Brown Ale 5.6%

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Piratelife x Dilmah Tea & Biccies Brown Ale

Cold one or a cuppa? It’s a familiar dilemma down under. Thankfully, Pirate Life and the team at Dilmah have found a solution. The ‘Tea & Biccies Brown Ale’ combines both beloved rituals so you’ll never have to choose again! Hand-crafted with malted barley, New Zealand hops and over one hundred kilos of Premium Black Ceylon Tea, this is the quintessential fusion brew. Expect rich malty aromas with lifted notes of stone fruit and spice. On the palate, fine tannins, freshly baked biscuit, and a host of herbal undertones. Do try it!

Cheeky Monkey East Coast IPA 6.5%

Only now the curtain falls to reveal the core range Cheeky hazy, an East Coast IPA with repeatability, consistency and scale in mind – perhaps unsexy terms in the entropic world of haze, but most punters should be thankful for the effort.

So, where did 18 months of research and development land? A lot closer to where they started with Supertubes than expected. There’s big passionfruit, pineapple and orange, with faint pine, grapefruit and Strata berry influence, while lightly lilting carbonation makes this feel like a fruit-laden summer punch. - Crafty Pint

Heath Werrett