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Moylans IPA

Moylans IPA - India Pale Ale (IPA)

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88
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Brewed by Moylans Brewery & Restaurant
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)

Novato, California USA

bottled
common

on tap
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3823.52/5.03.5/5.06.5%76.7Shaker, Tulip
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Commercial Description:
Our version of the IPA beer style possesses a deep golden hue, rich malty flavor, a bold, complex, and enduring hop finish and is extremely full bodied. We dry hop this brew and use a combination of Fuggles and Chinook hop varieties resulting in an extremely enticing floral and spicy aroma as well as hop character. Great Western Two Row Pale Malt, De Wolf-Cosyns' Caravienne and Munich Malts are combined to achieve an initial specific gravity approaching 1.065.
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 CelticBrew (676), The Crystal Coast, North Carolina, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/515/20
Oct 19, 2007  
Pours medium gold/amber. Aroma strong of typical IPA style, grass, grapefruit, hops, caramels. Flavour is of a full bodied IPA, extremely pleasant beer. Yummy. Love the fact of the Irish/Scottish Moyland style ale. Extremely smooth, tasteful IPA beer.


 Zeswaft (1000), Seattle, Washington, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/103/515/20
Oct 13, 2007  
Super piney and citrus aroma. a little B.O. smell too. Pours super clear copper color. Flavor is pretty much the same. Lots of west coast hops. Kind of disappointed in a lack of malt. very thin body. Still a good IPA and better than the rating. Same flavors as Breckenridge IIPA and Troegs Nugget nectar. I wanna say there are a lot of simcoe hops.


 dkoonce (880), People’s Republic of Athens, Ohio, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Oct 7, 2007  
Bomber Bottle. Typical IPA, very hoppy and medium body. More floral than resinous, with a dryer finish than usual.


 scrizzz (1247), kirkland, Washington, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/57/103/516/20
Sep 28, 2007  
Thick head stays strong and spongy in the glass, has body and character of its own, like a root beer float. Smells bright, sunny, fresh and young. Sharp and oily initial hop burst gives way to a well rounded earthiness before finishing with a pointed citrus bitter finish. Not every good IPA needs to be balanced.


 mkgrenwel (420), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/105/59/105/518/20
Sep 27, 2007  
Huge aggressive bitterness all over the mouth, including bouncing right on the tip of the tongue. Huge hop flavor, exploding in the mouth both floral and fruity. Mango, orange, and even fresh canteloupe. Everything points to that color, which is nearly the same as the beer itself. Pine resin explodes in the back of the mouth. Beautiful ability to present a complex veriety of hop flavors, but they are sorted out such that you taste them independently. Plenty pale malt to hold up the hops and keep it in enough balance to keep the hops in check and prevent them from running wild and overpowering the beer, but plays enough of a backseat to allow this beer to be a hop vehicle. This is everything an American IPA should be. The mouthfeel is fantastically smooth and full, but light enough to keep the beer from getting oppressive. Just a fantastically crafted IPA. I am very sorry that I’ve been overlooking these guys for so long. I’m going to start seeking out more Moylan’s beers. BTW, I was shocked to see that the hops used appear only to be Fuggles and Chinook. I couldn’t even begin to guess how they made this beer with those hops. Consider me impressed.


 joohefner (380), Isla Vista, California, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/104/515/20
Sep 22, 2007  
a golden copper color with thin but lasting offwhite head. floral resin aroma with some spicy citrus fruit in the background. medium thin, slightly sticky body. tastes mostly of floral pine and grass with a medium bitterness. there is some orange peel and light roasted caramel underneath. very flavorful, while not being too cloying


 jpm30 (1588), East Central, Georgia, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/516/20
Sep 21, 2007  
22 oz. bomber, blurb along the right side of label, no freshness date, sampled in a pint glass. Orange hued copper in color, small creamy dull white head, good retention, tiny amount of laced sticking. Citric hop nose, orange blossoms, lemon peel and grapefruit rind. Light traces of woody herbs and pine resins. Mild backing of toasted grainy malts. Smooth medium body with a little heft to it, crisp, dry and resinous on the tongue. An assertive layered hoppiness, tangerines, grapefruit peel and rind, pine resins, finishes with a woody herb, spicy bitterness. The malts provide the right amount of semi-sweet backing, pale sugary and toasted grainy. The dryness in the finish makes your mouth water for another taste. Highly quaffable IPA from Moylan’s, this is new to my area and I can already tell this will have a constant presence in my refrigerator.


 michael-pollack (2601), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/516/20
Sep 19, 2007  
22oz. Bottle: Medium bitter aroma. Smells of hops, pine, resin, and citrus. Poured amber in color with a small, rocky, off-white head that lasted throughout. Good lacing. Clear. Lightly sparkling. There may be a lot of tiny particles; I can’t tell if it might just be the glass. Flavor is lightly sweet and heavily bitter. Tastes of caramel malt, hops, pine, and resin. Medium body. Smooth texture. Average carbonation. Lightly dry, bitter, hop finish. Overall, a good West Coast IPA.



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