Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

Bottle @ LCRBM 08: Poured a hazy yellow to orange with a white head. The aroma is citrus and hops. Taste is a bitter hop blast that awakes the taste buds to a suttle malt.

Sample at Darkness Day. Cloudy, hazy gold with white head. Aroma of pine and citrus hops. Flavor is the same but with a nice malt backbone. Palate is spicy bitter. Good brew, would like more please.

Bottle @ LCRBM 2008. Grapefruit, malt and oily hops in the aroma. Malty, medecinal, oily hopbitter flavor with mint. The hops are a bit too pronounced.

Tastingsession LCRBM08.
Golden colored brew. Hoppy, citric aroma. Very hoppy aroma, west-coast style. Some fruits, pine. Nice.

Bottle (LCRBM08): A bit hazy, deep golden coloured, small white foamy layer; solid mix of sweet pale malt and extremely aromatic, piney hops; very dry bitter flavour, medium to full bodied; lingering - that’s understood - dry bitter finish, balanced by a subtle sweetness. Great, great stuff..........

Bomber, pours a clear yellow-orange body with foamy, white head. Aroma of grapefruit and pine hops with hints of vanilla, citrus, and sugar. Flavor is all hops - strong citrus grapefruit and pine hop flavors dominate with a hint of caramel malt that does little to balance things out. Finish is bitter grapefruit and astringent with a bitter aspirin aftertaste. Smooth, slightly oily mouthfeel with medium body.

Bottle. Pours a slightly hazy, pale orange, with a thin, creamy off-white head, wall of lacing. Nose is positively exploding with hop aroma - huge sweet grapefruit and citrus offset a resiney pine underpinning. Taste is dominated by a big, bruising hop bitterness. Citrus, notably grapefruit and orange, hit the tongue first with a sweetness that is complemented by the sweet, caramel malt underpinning. A wave of sharp pine sweeps through, to be replaced by a lingering, dry bitterness, heavy but not quite overwhelming, that sits firmly on the palate. Rich sweetness from the malt never really goes away either. Alcohol never appears. While the bitterness is big, it’s neither harsh nor jarring. Mouthfeel is smooth and creamy, oily and slick. Really well done beer.

Amber orange pour with lacy white head. Nice grapefruit hop aroma. The flavor however, is tryingly bitter. At first I thought ’’nice, here is IPA that was not brewed with weak babies in mind’’, but the more I drank the more this started to taste like I was licking a jar of pepper with some pine needles and lemon juice thrown into it. Fine mouthfeel, but this beer is far to bitter to be enjoyable.