Panhead Custom Ales
Regional Brewery
in
Upper Hutt,
Wellington,
New Zealand 🇳🇿
Owned by
Lion Breweries - NZ
Contact
7.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle from random liquor store, drank at Trounson Kauri Park Campground. Hazy golden with almost white head. Dank hops, soft grapefruit, grassy, lots of caramel, lemon drops, soft apple, quite some bitter fruit skins and resinous bitter flowers. But over medium sweet and pretty bitter. Bit over medium bodied. Thick classic US style strong IPA, goes down super well.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jul 2018
at 21:11
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
GABS Auckland 2018. Pours brown. Cinnamon, caramel, toast, vanilla, pepper, biscuit. Good body. Interesting, perhaps a touch much spice.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2018
at 01:28
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
GABS Auckland 2018. Pours brown black. Chocolate, coffee, smoke, caramel, red fruit. Medium body. Good.
Tried
on 01 Jul 2018
at 01:26
6.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
GABS Auckland 2018. Pours pale and murky. Banana, vanilla, lots of peach, touch of citric acidity. Good body on the nitro. Fun.
Tried
on 30 Jun 2018
at 00:10
7/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
On tap at Panhead Viaduct. Pours purple red. Blackberry, boysenberry, lemon juice, honey, bread, touch of raspberry and some more blackberry in the finish. Nice spritzy body. Would prefer no bready end note, but it's still decent.
Tried
from Draft
on 01 Mar 2018
at 23:07
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottled. A golden beer with a lazing white head. The aroma has notes of straw, malt, and spicy hops. The flavor is sweet with notes of malt, spices, hops, and straw, leading to a bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Feb 2018
at 05:41
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at Panhead Viaduct. Pours deep red. Biscuit, caramel, smoke, BBQ meat, pear, quite savoury, quite fruity in the finish. Not bad.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2018
at 08:53
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
On tap at Panhead Viaduct. Pours red brown. Coffee grounds, caramel, touch of fruit but not much. Tastes a bit like a way too strong instant coffee. Medium body. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2018
at 08:52
5.9/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at Panhead Viaduct. Pours sickly pale yellow. Banana, cloves, bubblegum, lemon. Flavour fails with any sort of subtlety, though it's not an unpleasant yeast taste i guess.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2018
at 08:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
On tap at Panhead Viaduct. Pours amber. Caramel, biscuit, dry middle palate, little blackberry on the way out. Medium body, perhaps a touch over carbonated. Fine.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Feb 2018
at 08:52