Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

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

Pours a crisp golden color with a medium creamy off-white head that fades slowly, and leaves some sticky lacing. Aroma is almost like a Christmas tree.......a nice pine note with a bit of citrus. Taste is a bit thick, with a decent citrus front, that follows with a medium malt backbone that is overlayed with some medium bitterness. Not too bad.

From bottle courtesy of dpjuart. Great hoppy nose, with grapefruit, apricot, resin, and cat pee. Mild sweet caramel. Mellow and enjoyable. Medium heavy body with medium carbonation. Medium dark abmer clear with foamy lacing head. Starts and stays hoppy, bitter throughout. Sweet undertones but really just hop juice! Wonderfully bitter and strong. Nice beer with bitter, bitter after.

On tap at Six & Save, New Ken. The aroma is like opening up a bag of fresh hops. Fresh, juicy, resinous, citrus. There is hardly any malt character. Hazy orange-amber with thin white head. Medium-heavy body with medium carbonation. Starts with good malt sweetness, light meaty taste followed by a tone of hops. Citrus, pine, resin - this is a huge hophead beer. There are flavors here I’ve never experienced in other IPAs. Amazing. Huge bitter finish and after.

22 oz. bomber at Flat Rock Saloon. Poured hazy orange with thin white head. Citrus nose. Malty with tongue stripping resiny bitterness. Bigtime hop bomb.

22 ounce split in pint glass. Hazy orange-copper with lasting head and lace. Strong citrus orange bready aroma. Honey orange zesty fruitiness with bracing bitterness and lingering piney citrusy hop flavor. Medium full creamy body and medium carbo. Absolutely complex, assertive, and delicious. And I think I am warming to the DIPA style

Bomber shared at Xmas gathering. Pours orange with eggshell head. Nose of cat piss, with lots of floral, grapefruit and peach notes and mild pine. Taste is resiny pine hips with some grapefruit, dry and bitter as all get out. Great IIPA. Definitely a repeater.

Whoa. The smell is wonderful. It is on the next level. Grapefruity with a hint of peach. Damn that sucker is bitter. Bitter like a grapefruit is because you know how grapefruits can be bitter but you know that it is fruit and has natural sugars and stuff so it has also kind of sweet. Its got a decent malt background but not so much that it feels heavy. We have a winner here.

650 ml. Clear copper with a small lasting disc of cream that leaves a nice frosting behind. Aroma is grapefruit drizzled with brown sugar and a hint of cocoa. Flavor is way hoppy as advertised, with barely enough malt to balance. Grapefruit, resin, and spruce vs. some way over-matched caramel. Near-medium body is smooth, slightly watery in a drinkable fashion, and of course very hop-dry.

Bottle pours a hazed amber with a decent and clingy head. The aroma is very citrus hop oriented, with a nice sweet malty foundation. The flavor is like beer grapefruit juice! This is a serious IIPA, with some really nice juicy notes to make it all work. The palate is rich, weighty, and cleansing. Overall, this is one of the better IIPAs I have had in a while.