Moylans IPA

Brewed by Moylans Brewery & Restaurant
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Novato, California USA

Bomber Bottle. Typical IPA, very hoppy and medium body. More floral than resinous, with a dryer finish than usual.

Thick head stays strong and spongy in the glass, has body and character of its own, like a root beer float. Smells bright, sunny, fresh and young. Sharp and oily initial hop burst gives way to a well rounded earthiness before finishing with a pointed citrus bitter finish. Not every good IPA needs to be balanced.

Huge aggressive bitterness all over the mouth, including bouncing right on the tip of the tongue. Huge hop flavor, exploding in the mouth both floral and fruity. Mango, orange, and even fresh canteloupe. Everything points to that color, which is nearly the same as the beer itself. Pine resin explodes in the back of the mouth. Beautiful ability to present a complex veriety of hop flavors, but they are sorted out such that you taste them independently. Plenty pale malt to hold up the hops and keep it in enough balance to keep the hops in check and prevent them from running wild and overpowering the beer, but plays enough of a backseat to allow this beer to be a hop vehicle. This is everything an American IPA should be. The mouthfeel is fantastically smooth and full, but light enough to keep the beer from getting oppressive. Just a fantastically crafted IPA. I am very sorry that I’ve been overlooking these guys for so long. I’m going to start seeking out more Moylan’s beers. BTW, I was shocked to see that the hops used appear only to be Fuggles and Chinook. I couldn’t even begin to guess how they made this beer with those hops. Consider me impressed.

a golden copper color with thin but lasting offwhite head. floral resin aroma with some spicy citrus fruit in the background. medium thin, slightly sticky body. tastes mostly of floral pine and grass with a medium bitterness. there is some orange peel and light roasted caramel underneath. very flavorful, while not being too cloying

22 oz. bomber, blurb along the right side of label, no freshness date, sampled in a pint glass. Orange hued copper in color, small creamy dull white head, good retention, tiny amount of laced sticking. Citric hop nose, orange blossoms, lemon peel and grapefruit rind. Light traces of woody herbs and pine resins. Mild backing of toasted grainy malts. Smooth medium body with a little heft to it, crisp, dry and resinous on the tongue. An assertive layered hoppiness, tangerines, grapefruit peel and rind, pine resins, finishes with a woody herb, spicy bitterness. The malts provide the right amount of semi-sweet backing, pale sugary and toasted grainy. The dryness in the finish makes your mouth water for another taste. Highly quaffable IPA from Moylan’s, this is new to my area and I can already tell this will have a constant presence in my refrigerator.

22oz. Bottle: Medium bitter aroma. Smells of hops, pine, resin, and citrus. Poured amber in color with a small, rocky, off-white head that lasted throughout. Good lacing. Clear. Lightly sparkling. There may be a lot of tiny particles; I can’t tell if it might just be the glass. Flavor is lightly sweet and heavily bitter. Tastes of caramel malt, hops, pine, and resin. Medium body. Smooth texture. Average carbonation. Lightly dry, bitter, hop finish. Overall, a good West Coast IPA.

Golden amber body under a foamy white head. Citrus hops evident in the aroma along with caramel malt, and some fruit notes. The taste is dominated by the hops with some of the sweet malt fighting its way through without much success. Not much balance in the flavor but it wasn’t a bad drink.

Date: 03/22/1997
Source: Brewpub

clean amber, thin head, sweet malt plus floral hop aroma, good malt body with slight sweetness and pleasant balancing hops, underlying bitterness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
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