A triple by strength, an IPA (Indian Pale Ale) by history. Triple means that the brewer used three times the normal amount of barley malt, thus starting with more starches, getting more sugars after cooking, and more alcohol after a long fermentation. The Piraat is re-fermented in the bottle, and in the keg! The original style of the Piraat is similar to the IPA style. It is a beer that was created many centuries ago to go on ships. Indeed, sailors drank beer on board. Nobody drank water on land, why would anybody then take water on a boat? Even the Pilgrim fathers landed in Plymouth Rock because they were out of beer, and had to land to find fresh water to brew more beer. So says their logbook.

When people started to sail out for longer voyages, the captains needed a beer with high ?food? value that could be kept fresh for a long time. The Flemish sailors, called merchants by their friends and pirates by their enemies, had a very strong and potent beer like the Piraat on board.

Piraat is a wickedly rich and rounded brew that packs a mighty punch. Taste it, and understand why captains like this beer so much. Nothing holds sailors (or Pirates) back after a pint of this brew.

Charlie Papazian, President of the Association of Brewers.
"Piraat. All the aroma, appearance and flavor of a classic Belgian Ale type. Pale with a heady head of head. Fruity, spicy, complex aroma and flavor. A sweet palate is followed by low hop bitterness, evident coriander-like spiciness and a titillating alcoholic blast reminiscent of Flemish fantasies. A true taste of Belgium"

James Robertson. World traveler and author of the celebrated Beer Log.
"Piraat. This golden beauty has a huge, complex, spicy malt aroma; a creamy palate with a great mouthfeel; and a spicy-malty flavor with plenty of alcohol (10.5 percent abv). This is a very strong, highly flavored ale that is a real treat for the senses."

A lady Piraat.

Anne Bonny, born out of wedlock in Ireland, migrated with her father lawyer to South Carolina, where he became a wealthy merchant.
At age 12, Anne stabbed a servant girl to death with a tabe knife. Instead of marrying a nice boy, she married James Bonny, a penniless sailor, who slipped away to sea and never came back.
Anne tracked him down and slit his throat in a brothel in St. Thomas (Virgin Islands). She was 16 at the time. she fled with Calico Jack, a fierce pirate. Together they were the scourge of the Caribbean, plundering everything that crossed their path.

In October 1720, a British vessel surprised them, while at anchor in Jamaica, and found the men completely drunk. Anne fought furiously and boldly, firing her pistol and flailing with cutlass and axe.

All were sentenced to be executed, but Anne was saved because she was pregnant, and her rich father bought her release.
She said goodbye to Calico Jack with the famous words:
“Had you fought like a man, you need not have been hanged like a dog.” Anne returned to Charlotte where she opened a gaming house.