Panhead Custom Ales Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath

 

Panhead Custom Ales in Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿

  Barley Wine - Barley Regular
Score
7.63
ABV: 11.0% IBU: - Ticks: 10
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7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

2nd January 2017
Almost opaque dark brown beer, good tan head. Palate is smooth and semi dry, decent fine carbonation. Smooth malts with dark toffee and a little dark chocolate. Ripe fruits into hop skunk. Mild spice and pine. A little coffee bitterness underneath. The light semi dry finish brings licorice. Complex and tasty.

Tried on 13 Jan 2017 at 14:34


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Bouteille 750cl courtesy of Tderoeck @ Sebletitje’s Farewell Tasting. Brune foncée, col beige. Arôme au nez malté, caramel, rétro fleuri, pointe de fumé. Ressent aussi de fines effluves de caramélisé et de sucre résiduel ponctué de fruité noir. Palais est léger malgré les 11% et la chaleur commence à percer après qcq temps, ressent une bonne épaisseur niveau du seigle et de l’épice. Complexe avec un fini fruité noirs.

Tried on 22 Nov 2016 at 08:05


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Thank you tderoeck. Bomber sampled @ Sebletitje’s Farewell Tasting. Black with little tanned bubbles. Nose is red grapes, sugar, very sweet grainy malts, honey, cloying. Taste is thick red grape, sugar, malt, extremely sweet cloying going to herbal cough sryupd, cough syrup. Body is thick sugar, malty with grape. Good but too sweet for its own good.

Tried on 20 Nov 2016 at 02:09


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sampled from bottle @ Sebletitje’s Farewell Tasting. Opaque black color, average sized off-white to beige head. Smell and taste malts, some roast, heavy alcohol, dark overripe fruits, bitter. Nice.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2016 at 19:30


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Imported from my RateBeer account as Panhead Black Sabbath (by Panhead Custom Ales (Lion Co. - Kirin Holdings)):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5

18/XI/16 - 500ml bottle from a trade, shared @ Seb's Farewell Tasting (Eugene's place) - BB: n/a (2016-1335) Thanks to Paul for the trade!

Clear purple brown beer, practically no head. Aroma: sweet, caramel, dried fruits, some milk chocolate. MF: ok carbon, medium to full body. Taste: sweet, quite a lot of dried fruits, some chocolate, alcohol, sugary, caramel. Aftertaste: pretty bitter, roasted, green banana.

Tried from Bottle on 18 Nov 2016 at 16:13


8.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

500ml bottle. Pours dark ruby. Aroma is caramel, chocolate, rye and coffee. Flavour has spicy coffee, chocolate and a little lactose and vanilla. Really quite fantastic.

Tried from Bottle on 29 Oct 2016 at 06:07


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Small growler13C. Very dark brown with an inch of light tan head that never quite disappears. Aroma of wild figs, not-quite-dry tobacco, prunes, soil. There is a whiff of booze, as much Port as whiskey. .Full bodied but silky rather than syrupy. Taste is sweet and has lots of dark dried fruit, earth, a little mildly astringent roasted malt (not that it’s stouty at all, it’s very much the very big old ale type). Some licorice and spices with the finishing bitterness that curtails the sweetness well. After a while it becomes clearer that the spices are from rye. Suspect this would be rather less good were the bitterness to fade much but it’s good enough to be tempted to try keeping a bottle for a while. Very good.

Tried from Bottle on 08 Jul 2016 at 07:40


8.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

500mL bottle, pours a deep dark brown / near-black with a small beige head. Aroma brings out lots of caramel and dark dried fruits upfront, with a little tobacco. Flavour is very complex, with loads of chocolate, caramel, tobacco and dark fruits. Ample hops to it as well. Smooth palate, with no alcohol showing at all. Excellent stuff.

Tried from Bottle on 15 May 2016 at 05:20


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Lovely bubbly tan head on black. Nose of cocoa, caramel, berries, soy, pine and licorice. Nicely fruity flavor with lots os citrus, berries, and of course chocolate. Interesting, like a huge Black IPA.

Tried on 13 Oct 2014 at 18:24


8.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Dark brown color. Lots of molasses, dark chocolate, burnt raisins, fudge, alcohol so well hidden smooth. With oak. Slightly sweet. Amazing smooth beer. Fairly hoppy, with whisky, dark chocolate and dark fruit in the finish. Amazing. Amazing.

Tried on 12 Oct 2014 at 05:31