Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

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

Bottle via trade with kryptic. Reminds me a lot of Avery Maharaja.... this is a good thing. Loads and loads of wet, sticky, oily, piny hops on the nose. There is some necessary sweet caramel to balance out the massive amount of piney hops. Pours cloudy copper with excellent sticky lacing. Full bodied with plenty of oily, sticky hops on the palate. Some tangerine, apricot and mango fruitiness as well. Some roasted caramel malts as well. Hoppy to the max.

Orange red pour. Piny aroma. Hops dripping in tree sap. Taste is totally hoppy. Finish is dry and bitter and maintains the large hop profile. Solid but over the edge.

Bronzy, thickly sedimented pour. Slick pine resins and a hint of chocolate on the nose. Late burst of urinal. Sweet, powerful tastes of black licorice and toffee lead. Only minor hints of floral-toned aerosol taint a hand soap lavender and canned peach body. Slight astringency. Becomes heavy and slow with alcohol as it warms. Plastic and maple wood finish. There’s a vague unpleasantness that fails to overpower, but whimpers belatedly. Thanks Larry!

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.

Clear copper body. Soapy off-white head. Outright hoppy nose. Sticks out a bit more than the "normal" double. Very sweetly hoppy taste. Citrus, grass, caramel. Good strong California IIPA.

clear, light amber color, head is tan. nose is strong of bitter hops, perspiration, slight alcohol, and caramel malts. flavor is quite bitter initially with the buttery and caramel malts really coming through in the finish. Bitter aftertaste is long and signifcant. This is truly one of the most bitter beers I’ve had. Wonder how many IBUs this puppy is.

Surprisingly subtle citric aroma,pleasing but mild, WOW taste on the other hand is huge,all citrus and piney ,slightly oily texture,big time bitterness at the end,hardly notice the malt trying to balance,taste is wonderful, a bigger aroma would have made this a classic

Poured a nice amber orange color, nose was pineapple and overly pine and grass. The flavor was malt with slight caramel, but overly done, soapy pine tree. Oily mouthfeel. Quite a bitter finish.