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Moylans IPA

Moylans IPA - India Pale Ale (IPA)

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An India Pale Ale (IPA) brewed by
Moylans Brewery & Restaurant

Novato, California USA

bottled
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3463.52/5.03.5/5.06.5%74.3Shaker, Tulip P  Stats

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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 JPDIPSO (4654), Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/515/20

Mar 23, 2008  
Golden, orange amber liquid with taller, somewhat fluffy, dark cream colored head. Sweet caramel and sugar coated hops aromas. Pine citrus, and apricots all seem to come into play. Unfortunately, nothing to original by today’s standards, but nothing wrong that I can find. Pine and grapefruit hit the palate running. Some caramel, toffee, pale malt and hint of alcohol in the background. More an APA in my book, but a fairly well balanced pale ale, no matter what continent it is coming from. The hops seem a touch too sharp at times, but a hopshead type brew that I find very little fault.

beerfest5 (83), Simsbury, Connecticut, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/514/20
Jun 30, 2009  
I have a thing for Cali IPA’s, and this is no exception, very tasty, very piney and citrusy, not too malty, gonna try the hopsickle next time.


 ChainGangGuy (2313), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jun 23, 2009  
Appearance: Pours out a clear, golden-orange body with a well-sized, darn right frothy white head. Smell: Sweetish, fruity scent with a favorable blend of malts and hops -- light, sweet-scented caramel candy, tangerine oils, apricots, grapefruit peels, and plucked pine needles. Taste: Pleasant pale malts with a modest amount of crystal and light caramel malt sweetness showing. Small pinch of day-old biscuit crumbs. Splash of apricot juice. Graciously hoppy with flavors of fresh tangerines, pine resin, and white grapefruit pith, all with a punchy herbaceous, grassy quality. Fairly bold bitterness with those AA’s coming across a bit bristly and having an altogether long duration. The finishes is bone dry and longly bitter. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium, though fairly soft carbonation. Drinkability: A still relatively easy-drinking India Pale Ale with a bold, assertive bitterness that isn’t so biting or intense that I can’t cheerfully polish off the entire bomber at two in the morning.


 Pawola22 (506), Kansas City, Missouri, USA
4.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/59/105/517/20
Jun 19, 2009  
22oz bottle. Pours a crystal clear, orange body with a thick and dense, finger-width, off-white head that dissipates slowly and leaves lots of heavy lacing. Aroma is big on the pine and sweet, herbal citrus. Lots of malts, including sweet caramels and a bit of toasted toffee. Really nice and flowery with lots of orange and pineapple. Flavor is quite nice. A lot deeper than the aroma leads it to be. Big caramels and toasted toffees up front with lots of pine. Some more toasty toffees and deep pine with lots of heavy orange/pineapple/grapefruit/peachy melon and a bit of licorice flavor. Finishes dry with deep pines, somewhat sweet malts and pleny of herbal, earthy fruits. Palate is full bodied and smooth while maintaining a perfect balance. Overall, this is an IPA! Lots of intense flavors while maintaining a very nice malt balance. Very, very impressive! Mmmmm....


 GJF (418), Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/516/20
Jun 19, 2009  
Good IPA. Plenty of pine hops. It’s fairly standard in flavor profile--nothing that makes it stand out--but it’s very well done.


FortyFirkins (23), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/514/20
Jun 17, 2009  
22oz bottle. Poured nearly clear orange/amber with a thin off-white head. Hoppy nose of citrus and spruce. Light malt and super-bitter.


 jimbowood (891), Athens, Georgia, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/55/103/514/20
Jun 14, 2009  
bottle from 5 points. nothing special here. below average ipa. a little too much age on it?


 drfabulous (1063), Columbia, Missouri, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/515/20
Jun 12, 2009  
Pine aroma. Bitterness. Hops. I’m getting California IPA here if not the intense IPAs the region is known for. It’s Hopsickle calmed down.


 SSSteve (1891), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/102/511/20
Jun 11, 2009  
clear orange under small white head. potent lychee, ctirus, hop aroma. a little on the thin side for something so hoppy. slightly astringent. hop dominated with little malt presence. low carbonation. extreme bitter aftertaste. hop water.



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