Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

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

Very Grapefruit juice looking beer. Nice High alpha floral nose with some pine and fittingly grapefruit aromas. Very resinous and oily. Some mild ripe white fruit notes from the malt and a good round soft oily mouthfeel. Much better than the white Knuckle.

lets see....hops, hops, other hops, with faint notes of hops. bitter and offensive biting burrowing mean and i love it

I’ve been hanging on to this one for a bit but am glad I finally cracked it open. Citrusy, slightly spicy aroma. I swear I get a little bubble gum aromas as well. Creamy white head adds texture on the first couple of sips. Sweet caramel tastes with a sugary aftertaste that lastes for a while. Finish is the expected bitter taste but not overpowering. Reminds you of what kind of beer you are drinking. Well made double. Big ups to fordest for this one.

Bottle that I took to the release of Flaming Fury. Pours a clear orange with a thin white head. Huge pine and citrus with a slight vanilla backbone. Medium bodied with a light malty sweetness. Huge long grapefruit and quinine bitterness. This was really good.

Bottle poured a crisp copper amber with a thick foamy head and sticky lacing that clung to glass. Srong citrus and grapefruit aroma that I could still smell from a foot across the table. Big citris and pine flavor with a sweet hoppy finish that linger a good bit. It just seemed a little thin to me ...but what do I know.

Oh man. Just the way I like my IPAs. Super hops. Intense citrus/pine taste. Another fine beer from Moylans.

650 ml botttle

As soon as this was opened the smell of hops filled the kitchen. This is not a subtle beer but your over the top West Coast IIPA. What makes it even better is that it only costs $3.99 a bomber - that’s a steal for anything this good. Let’s hope the hop shortage doesn’t cause the prices to rise too much over the next year.

Aroma / Appearance - Strong pine, resin and manadarin oranges fill not only the glass but the airspace within five feet. Peaches and cream highlight a very strong imperial IPA. The one finger white head held underneath a fluid transparent copper body.

Flavor / Palate - The bitterness immediately causes one to begin puckering. While it doees this the mouth stays moist somehow. Peaches, pine resin and vanilla come first. A few later sips reveal raspberries and cedar chips. The finish is wet with a strong aftertaste that lingers up until you wash it away with something else. This is an in your face beer that doesn’t hold anything back.

bottle. copper pour with huge frothy head. great lacing. enormous aroma of citrus and hops. awesome hop bomb. citrus and a bitterness that reaches down deep into your throat. despite the enormous amount of hops there is a good balance. delicious. this is what a IIPA should taste like.