Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

Brewed by Moylans Brewery & Restaurant
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Novato, California USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Aroma of pine needles, like a Christmas with Bing Crosby, It’s beginning to smell a lot like Christmas. A swirl gives it a nice head. Red, cherry juice color, with brown. Classic big hop aroma, and the flavor, characteristically of such a concoction, is less interesting. Although there are pine vs. floral vs. citrus differences among hoppy beers, does one really need that to know what you’re going to get with a beer such as this?

22oz bottle from Darkefl! Pours a dark copper color with a silky, frothy off white head. nose is sweet grapefruit, lots of orange peels, and some caramel. Taste is malty and thick. Good amounts of caramel and some citrus notes as well. Finishes soft with almost no bitterness.

Pine, hops, citrus aroma. Amber color. Definite "super hoppy taste." Not the best IPA I’ve ever had, but one worth having again.

Bottle at Bootopia. Aroma was awesome, sweet hops,pine and citric backed up with some nice toast malt. Pour was amber with a pillowy ivory head. Flavor really jumps at you as the hops really hit wave after wave, finishing with just enough malts to make a smile come to your face. Palate was nice finish was a nice citrus hop. Overall this was yummy.

UPDATED: AUG 23, 2008 ’05 bottle shared by Dickinsonbeer at Bootopia. Amber color with a good size off white head. Amazing hop aroma! Piney, citrusy with a fair amount of malt in the background. Flavor starts off all hops(piney), then some sweet malt before finishing lightly bitter with some more hops. Really well made IIPA.

Thanks to Dickinsonbeer for sharing this.

Tasted side-by-side with Dreadnaught. Poured a honey amber with a creamy white head. Aroma of sharp piney hops. Taste is lots of piney hops with a touch of sweetness and a dry bitter finish. The flavor didn’t seem as well developed or as sharp as Dreadnaught, but this an excellent IIPA.

Bottle. Rich amber beer with a reddish hue and a nice light beige head. Huge grapefruit and pine aroma with some tropical fruit (pineapple) underneath. Resiny, grapefruit flavor with rich malt backing and a bit of caramel. Full bodied. Hops linger. Some alcohol present.

Yum! Had this on draft at Southern Sun’s 2nd annual Hop Harvest. This was one of the guest beers on tap 10/17. Great beer! This one is like drinking liquid hops...give me an IV!! I’ve only tasted one other beer more hoppy and that was an Oggies brew that I cannot recall the name of. Keep this one on the menu please!!

Thanks to Dr. Bill for introducing this beer to myself as well as everyone else at Logans at GABF 05. I loved this beer so much I had to trade for it. Big thanks to Davecooks for sending me 4 bottles of this stuff. My favorite DIPA by far. Pour is surprisingly clear medium amber with a real nice lasting head and a kickass lace. Aroma is what does if for me with this beer. Dr. Bill himself said to me that this would be the best smelling DIPA I had ever smelled. He was right. Great fucking aroma. Pure pine and mint aroma to the extreme. Flavor is dominated by a shitload of tomahawk hops I guess because it is a hop quality that is seldom seen in other IPA’s. Just a lot of pine and mint all the way through, but a decent amount of clean light caramel malt. Perfect smooth palate, balanced with malt and hops but obviously more on the hops side, which is great. The bitter finish isnt as harsh as I would have expected, as there is plenty of real clean crystal malt. The best DIPA in the world.

pours dark red with a small head. smells sweet, piney, hoppy, grassy, everything you would come to expect in an IIPA. ive had a couple of these beers brewed by these guys and i remember i was impressed. this one sureley stands out as one of the, if not the top beers they brew. taste is just an explosion of hops and floral tastes. this was a damn fine iipa, and a good reminder as to why this is my 2nd favorite style of beer.