Craft Beer Guide: Pirate Life

89 South Road, Hindmarsh SA

Self-dubbed 'simple creatures', Pirate Life Brewery owners Jack Cameron and Red Proudfoot are all about one thing: beer. Well, beer and thinking like a pirate. The Aussie brewers preach doing what you want, when and wherever you want, just as long as you don't get scurvy or steal people's stuff.

The pair met in Scotland learning the craft beer trade at BrewDog, going separate ways in the beer business for a wee bit back home, before throwing a bunch of their own belongings in a van last year, road-tripping across the country and ending up in a foreign land: Adelaide.

It was here their beer brainchild was born and, as Jack and Red always dreamed, the return of the humble tinny.

Pirate Life. Craft beer in a can. A brew length of 2500L (in brewer talk this is 25hL) with three core beers: a 3.5% session IPA, a pale ale at 5.4% and a double IPA at 8.8%.

Its 'mini keg' philosophy means Pirate Life is transported lighter and greenier all over Australia, has minimal light and oxygen exposure (this can happen with a bottle and ruins a beer's flavour and shelf life) and can go where no glass can go (think festivals).

There's no 'tinny' taste with this froth either: an internal coating in each can bans any metallic aftertaste — smooth. So smooth.