Moylans IPA

Brewed by Moylans Brewery & Restaurant
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Novato, California USA

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.

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.

Golden amber body under a foamy white head. Citrus hops evident in the aroma along with caramel malt, and some fruit notes. The taste is dominated by the hops with some of the sweet malt fighting its way through without much success. Not much balance in the flavor but it wasn’t a bad drink.

Date: 03/22/1997
Source: Brewpub

clean amber, thin head, sweet malt plus floral hop aroma, good malt body with slight sweetness and pleasant balancing hops, underlying bitterness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
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Bomber. Pours slightly hazy copper-orange with a fluffy white head. Aroma is caramel malt balanced nicely with pine and fruity citrus hops. Flavor is strong resiny hops throughout, especially in a long, bitter, astringent finish, with a bit of pine and citrus character, and some malts somewhere in the background. This is pretty good, though I could do with some more complexity in the flavor besides the nondescript bitterness.

22 oz Bomber poured a light orange decent head not much hop aroma here somewhat cardboardy- taste is way off balence just bitter and no flavor no hop character or malt, just bitter hmm maybe a bad bottle

Aroma of bitter earth and grass, caramel malt, pine, and funk. Hazy orange brown. Looks unfiltered to me. Nice earthy bitterness with a long lingering dryness. A little citrus and pine, but mostly earth, pepper, a little dirt. Pretty resiny. Medium bodied with a little bit of metallic notes. I have had better.

Bottle. Nice grapefruit aroma only mildly metallic. Thicker consistency and slightly frothy. There is some malt initially but the pine, grapefruit, and metallic hops take over. Pretty bitter for a regular IPA.