Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

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

Bottle. Pours a hazy amber color with a nice thick, white head. As soon as the liquid hits the glass, you can smell the hops. WOW! An incredibly intense hops aroma - lots of pine, with a little citrus. Flavor does not quite match the aroma, but it is full of hops. They just sit and relax on the tongue. Some of alcohol comes through, but overall, it is fairly well hidden. Quite tasty.

Pours a dark amber clear enough to see laces of carbonated bubbles coming to the top that leaves a thick white lace that is frothy and sticky. The smell is pine, citrus, lemon and lime, grapefruit, honey, and grass. The taste is extremely bitter upfront with a honey sweetness but it is far from balanced. This is a hop bomb fantasticly bitter, although one-sided still very enjoyable and finishes with a musty, grass, bitterness.

Bottle at Bootopia. Aroma was awesome, sweet hops,pine and citric backed up with some nice toast malt. Pour was amber with a pillowy ivory head. Flavor really jumps at you as the hops really hit wave after wave, finishing with just enough malts to make a smile come to your face. Palate was nice finish was a nice citrus hop. Overall this was yummy.

Very deep orange pour. Very light tan head. Fruity, hoppy aroma. Delicious even from a plastic cup (boo). Sour and bitter taste. No aftertaste but a bit of alcohol in the afternose.

22 oz. bottle- color of hazy orange , with a thick off white head , and sight sediment - nose of hops , hops , and more hops , some resin , and citrus – taste of hops , grapefruit , resin , pine , slight maltyness , and bread - body is soft , dry , and with medium carbonation – aftertaste of resin , hops , and spruce

Bomber. Lightly hazed amber with a tan head. Big, whompin’ pink grapefruit nose, piney and fruity peach over caramel. Excellent sheetlike lacing, nice body on the fuller side of medium. Holy CRAP, bracingly bitter flavors! Dry grapefruit zest and mild pine with a strong caramel spine. Very herbal bitter finish, pretty dry. A whopper of a beer, but a bit overdone, really. Made to give the biggest hophead his fix, if not overdose.

Bomber, fresh. Wow. This one is about as good as of an strong hop showcase as I’ve ever experienced. It pours hazy amber with a reasonable head. The aroma overflows with green -- cut grass and floral aromas dominate with plenty of juicy pine and citrus in the background to keep things full on the hop side. The dry-hopping just carries you away. There is not much else there in the aroma, but who cares? Inhaling this is a delight.

The flavor very nearly measures up. None of the burnt sugars that plague so many West Coast IIPAs; this one is juicy but quite dry, with a long lasting bitterness is that is almost subtle until you realize how totally bitter - no sweetness anywhere - the remaining oils are. Mouthfeel is full but not oily; the alcohol basically undetectable beneath the bitter hops.

This is how I like my IIPAs and while I usually drink IPA instead for a regular house beer, I think that this one too will become a staple in my house.

Bomber, ~ 6 months old. At six months of age, the hops have already receded a great deal. Lots of powerful caramel malt, pushing toward hoppy barleywine territory, still enough hops to be clear it’s an IIPA but lacking much of that huge juicy goodness that it carried fresh. I’d got about 3.7 or 3.8 for this one at this age.

Poures a partly hazy amber color with a small off white head. Aroma of flooded with hops. Flavor is also very hoppy but sticky and sweet at the same time. This one’s bitterness lingers on for a long time.