Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

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

Beer pours cloudy dark honey color with a big, thick, totally retained off white head. This is a beautiful beer to gaze upon. Big aroma of grapefruit, a bit of an alcohol blast. Flavor is thick and rich with hops with a bit of a knife edge to them. I guess I am a bit more of a fan of the lighter IPAs, but this is an excellent example of its style. Big and brash, but the flavor are quite well integrated. Sweet caramel flavors and a long finish. Quite a nice beer.

Cloudy orang color with a big thick beige head. Aroma of grapefruit and piney hops. Very bitter hop flavor.

Sampled at the Odds and Ends Tasting II on 10/19/07: Pours a dark copper color with a medium thick and fluffy off-white head that has good retention. Patchwork lacing on the glass. Strong hops nose that is citrusy and piney. Rich and bitter character with a citrusy hops punch and a solid toasted malt base. Some pine and alcohol are evident in the taste too. The finish is hoppy and leaves a lingering bitter aftertaste. Overall this beer is a great example of a straightforward IIPA that retains enough balance to make it supremely drinkable.

Bottle. Rich amber beer with a reddish hue and a nice light beige head. Huge grapefruit and pine aroma with some tropical fruit (pineapple) underneath. Resiny, grapefruit flavor with rich malt backing and a bit of caramel. Full bodied. Hops linger. Some alcohol present.

Pours an clear orange/amber color with a biege head and soft carbonation. Strong aroma of pinesap, grapefruit, papaya and caramel malt. Flavor is juicy orange, grapefruit, and a sweet caramel pine. A bit acidic. Big creamy mouthfeel. Finish is spicy long bittery goodness.

Straight sweet hops aroma. Not sugar sweet, but pine-y sweet. Almost smells like the pitch you get on your gloves after stacking firewood. Coloring is more amber than IPA, but, then again, it’s a double. Flavor is straight hops, no balance. This reminds me of the Siletz Spruce Ale. Flavor is like eating a tree. Not that I’ve ever done that. Mouthfeel is thick, in the sense that it overwhelms.

22oz bottle-Peach orange hue with a sudsy off-white topping with sluggish carbonation. Nose is full of resinous hops-over the top pine, grapefruit, resin and pinecones. Flavors start out sweet and lightly fruity with a finish of huge piney and resinous hops. big tingle on the tongue with these priclkly hop notes. Doesnt really have the characteristics i would put with a IIPA. it doesnt have any citric quality other than the grapefruit. I guess since its high ABV and lots of hops, that puts it in the IIPA category. I would just call it as the bottle says-imperial ale. Palate is lush and hides the alcohol very nicely. bitterness is probably around the 150ibu range (reminds me of Old Crusty in some ways). Very nice brew!

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.