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Canhead Johnny Octane Red IPA

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Brewed by Panhead Custom Ales
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Upper Hutt, New Zealand
Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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RATINGS: 11   MEAN: 3.91/5.0   WEIGHTED AVG: 3.66   SEASONAL: Special   EST. CALORIES: 240   ABV: 8%
COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Like a freelance gunslinger trailing corpses across the badlands, Johnny’s life oscillated between endless boredom and the adrenaline heat of those precious few seconds that gave his life meaning. Days in limbo waiting for smoke, flame, noise and the brutal pull on his guts that would bring life or death, victory or defeat. We can feel that specific gravity in the dark power of this Red IPA.


3.4
   AROMA 6/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 14/20
stoutnick (780) - Brisbane, AUSTRALIA - SEP 20, 2015
Red amber pour. Aroma is earthy malt resin. Taste is earthy hops, bit of tang. Good but not great.

3.9
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 17/20
Earplay (48) - NEW ZEALAND - SEP 20, 2015
Fragrant aroma balanced between floral and citrus, some sweet malt. Taste is sweet malt, resinous/grapefruit hop character with a particularly spicey hop finish. Full flavoured, punchy IPA.

4.2
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 16/20
Davros (2448) - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA - SEP 16, 2015
Pours copper with a large head. Nose shows caramel, resinous and piny hops, sweet bready malt. Flavours include more caramel and sultana notes as well as more piny and resinous hops.

3.4
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 6/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 13/20
hawthorne00 (2955) - Melbourne, AUSTRALIA - SEP 1, 2015
Can. Clear reddish amber with an inch of beige head that’s never less than a coat and leaves lots of lace. Just a great looking glass of beer. Aroma of kumquats, pine, sticky bread crusts. Some floral and herbal notes, just a touch of booze. Sweet with some grapes and dried fruit in amongst the bread and caramel. Citrus flavours are there but get a little obscured. Quite bitter at the end. Not really my sort of thing.

4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
whoisghost (125) - Perth, AUSTRALIA - AUG 25, 2015
A beautiful amber colour with a thick and creamy off white head. Looks the goods. Smells really fresh, lots of floral hop notes as well as some notable, dense, malty aromas to complement. Nice and bitter up front, really punchy. Pine, wheat grass and red malts to taste. I feel a little more malt would have made for better balance. Pretty crisp finish, a little dry but I think it suits the agressive flavours. Well carbonated. Great beer.

4.8
   AROMA 9/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 10/10   PALATE 5/5   OVERALL 19/20
donniemillan (99) - AUSTRALIA - AUG 23, 2015
It’s basically the perfect IPA. It pours deep red orange, small tan head, sweet and grassy aroma, really creamy and syrupy mouthfeel, crisp and refreshing, nailed it.

4.2
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 18/20
mkel07 (4417) - Brisbane, AUSTRALIA - AUG 21, 2015
Can from Archive Beer Boutique 180815. Once agin another awesome looking can and once again the beer inside is just as awesome. Pours a deep red with a light tan crest of foam. More malt than hops in this IPA which is fine by me because I think that sometimes malt takes a back seat to hops. Smooth in the mouth with a full flavour and a thick almost creamy mouthfeel. Big finish and this beer just all the spots.

3.9
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
waiake (510) - Auckland, NEW ZEALAND - AUG 13, 2015
can poured reddy brown & frothy with an appealing hoppy aroma damn this is nice a great blend of malt hops & piny bitter flavours finishing creamy & moreish

4
   AROMA 8/10   APPEARANCE 5/5   TASTE 8/10   PALATE 3/5   OVERALL 16/20
Jimthechap (2064) - Christchurch, NEW ZEALAND - AUG 7, 2015
A beer this colour was always going to have me fizzing at the bung. I love me a red beer and this is beer in excelsis. An almost luminous copper red with a puffy cream coloured head, perfect clarity and constant sparkle. That brassy copper colour almost seems to manifest itself in the flavour with resinous hoppiness, green spruce cone and herbal grassiness. It is forthright and robust in flavour too, leaning on that hoppiness with a good foundation of red maltiness. Calling this beer ’assertive’ is like saying Hitler had ’issues’ or Motörhead is ’a bit loud’. I like this beer a lot. A lot a lot.

3.8
   AROMA 7/10   APPEARANCE 4/5   TASTE 7/10   PALATE 4/5   OVERALL 16/20
raphael (1048) - Portland, Oregon, USA - JUL 22, 2015
At the Oregon Brewers fest they called this "imperial red. A chewy, bys assetive beer, flavor full of red malt, abrasive piney hops, slash of alcohol and a little smoke. Aroma similar but a little subtler with wood, walnuts, and caramel. orange red with tan head. well-caronbated


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