Panhead Custom Ales

Regional Brewery in Upper Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand 🇳🇿
Owned by Lion Breweries - NZ

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27 Blenheim Street, Shed 21, Upper Hutt, 5018, New Zealand

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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Tap@Taphouse, Copenhagen (02/08/2019) - golden pour with a white head. Medium sweet malty and citrus fruity with notes of grapefruit and lemon, caramel malty backing, light piney hoppy bitter finish. --- Beer merged from original tick of Quickchange XPA @dylanadmin1 on 26 Mar 2025 at 07:40 - Score: 7. Original review text: Medium sweet malty and citrus fruity with notes of grapefruit and lemon, caramel malty backing, light piney hoppy bitter finish.
Tried from Draft on 03 Aug 2019 at 07:56

7/10
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Tried from Draft at Taphouse on 20 Jul 2019 at 15:22

8/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
(Can) Pours clear golden with good dense long-lasting white head. Lovely aroma of pine and orange. Medium body with plenty of soft carbonation. Great taste. There’s hoppy bitterness from start to finish. And it is very nicely balanced with a rich light caramel sweetness. And the orange citrus notes break through now and then. There’s a bit of alcohol bite too. Excellent beer.
Tried from Can on 20 Jul 2019 at 12:00

6.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Tried on 10 Jun 2019 at 07:41

7.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7.5
Bottle at a friend's. Pours deep reddish brown, nose is roasted, caramel, cola, nutty, taste is sweet, fruity, nutty, chewy toffee, herbal.
Tried from Bottle on 05 May 2019 at 11:51

8.1/10 Appearance 10 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
500ml bottle, aged 18 months or so I think. Pours black wth a big tan honeycomb head. Chocolate, big sweet cocoa, coffee, plum, liquorice, almost like a ginger loaf spicy molasses thing. Good body. Excellent.
Tried from Bottle on 11 Apr 2019 at 09:24

7.2/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7
On tap at the Chamberlain. Pours dark ruby brown. Cinnamon, toffee, booze, strawberry, sweet strawberry liqueur, pepper, biscuit. Good body. Pretty strange, but not unpleasant.
Tried from Draft on 19 Mar 2019 at 04:59

6/10
Tried from Draft on 10 Mar 2019 at 15:38

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Pint on tap at Basement Brewhouse, Bankstown. Bright brown beer with a thin white head. Good lacing. Nose full of biscuity malt and caramel. Lightly bitter with some fruit. Finish is more biscuity malt with a light lingering bitterness. Nice beer, real easy drinking but not very bitter.
Tried from Draft on 09 Mar 2019 at 08:19

7/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7 Flavor 7 Texture 6 Overall 7
Imported from my RateBeer account as Panhead Blacktop Oat Stout (by Panhead Custom Ales (Lion Co. - Kirin Holdings)):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 3/5, Overall: 14/20, MyTotalScore: 3.5/5

5/I/19 - on tap , shared with the misses @ Fourpure Taproom (Bermondsey, London), BB: n/a - (2019-48)
Clear dark brown beer, small dense creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: very roasted, bit smoky, campfire, coffee, bit malty, some cow fodder. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: very malty start, roasted, very bitter, coffee. Aftertaste: very bitter, roasted, campfire, bitter coffee, not very impressive.

Tried from Draft on 05 Jan 2019 at 21:06