Moylans Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

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

Awesome. One of the best DIPA’s out there. Piney, refreshing, tart, and hopped out of this world. A really really really good DIPA will buy this again, hopslam watch out!

an absolute explosion of powerful and pungent hops that make your mouth feel like a recepticle of hops. a nice and powerful hopppy beer with hints of pine, grapefruit, tangerines and more that lead into a great and long finish. a must for any person who wants to be smashed over the head with hops

Pours a clear copper with a large chunky, frothy, off-white head that leaves tons of thick lacing. HUGE aroma of pine needles, mango, grapefruit, orange, and some buired caramel malt. The flavor is caramel malt and fruit at first, but quickly turns to extremely bitter and hoppy. Medium bodied with soft carbonation and a oily, slightly hot, very bitter finish.

courtesy of Per Samuelsson - foaming nervously out of the bottle; pours a very cloudy reddish-brown colour under a firm, creamy beige head; impressive hoppy nose showing strong aroma of flowers, apricot and cream; oily (but not heavy) mouthfeel and very bitter; the finish is very long, even more bitter, very dry, showing more flowery and fruity notes - a beautiful and very assertive hop soap

650 ml bottle. Cloudy deep amber-orange beer with a thick sticky off-white head. Gorgeous hoppy aroma. Juicy grapefruit and tangerine citrus over some sweet toffee malts, toast and bread. A bit tropical as well. Also some leafy/grassy and slightly resiny aroma. Resinousness doesn’t overwhelm the sweet fruitiness, but rather serves as a bit of an accent. Flavour is also fantastic, sweet pineapple/mango tropical fruit, some orange and grapefruit as well. Sticky mouthfeel, very grassy hoppiness balanced by a kiss of medium crystal malt, light sweet caramel. Bitterness is less that I would have thought based on the aroma, but as you get through the glass, it becomes more and more intense. Loads and loads of hop flavour. I’ve been craving hops for quite awhile and this bottle definitely hits the spot. As the beer warms up a bit even more complex hoppiness comes out, big piny notes mingling with all the grassy and fruity elements I mentioned before. Spectacular.

I’m so happy i found a bottle of this, finally. Pours a dense copper and orange with a decent layer of film on top. Carbonation bubbles rise extremely slowly and are fairly big. Aroma is a strong dosage of freshly picked hops, pine and reminds me of a musty sweat. The drink is intensly bitter but delicious every last sip. Strong flavors of grapefruit, hop, and a sweetness similar to wild honey. Amazing double IPA, i couldn’t of imagined it being this good.

Insane beer. I don’t think that even the Ruination that stone puts out approaches this one. So hoppy, yet, it’s like one of those bruises that hurt everytime you poke at them, but you can’t stop. You just can’t stop enjoying the pain of this beer.