Moylans IPA

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

22 oz. bottle $4.95 from Spirit Haus Amherst, MA: Pours a lovely honey-golden-amber hue. Sticky, mostly lasting almost white head, leaving nice sheets of lace. Sweet floral nose, various myriad of fruit, melon, tangerine, apricot, mango, pear, strong lemon, sticky resionous pine. Firm malt backbone, biscuity, faintly toasted, light bodied, resinous, earthen, stone, dirt, stinky grapefruit, piney hops. Hopheads rejoice! A nice straight jumpin IPA. Spicy pad thai, with extra lime please. Thank goodness these guys have made it out this end of the state!

Poured a somewhat hazy golden with a large creamy white head. Clean crisp aroma of fresh citrus and pine hops. Taste is somewhat thinner than the aroma and very dry, consisting mostly of some piney hops with a touch of grapefruit. Not a whole lot of malt body to back this one up, which is probably the one thing keeping it from being better. However it’s got good hop character and is a nice dry and refreshing IPA.

Decent IPA. Too expensive for what you get, too bitter, excellent head and lacing, beautiful to look at.

Not bad, not great. Pours mirky orange with a good lacing head, though small. Aroma is fantastic fresh grassy hops. Flavor is watery and soapy, tough does have enough hop character to not suck, the soap s underlying I guess. There is a bit of sweetness too, but it’s not the freshest taste.

Colossal cornucopia of flowers, spruce & pine, spice, etc., etc. I’m drooling like a Pablovian dog. The brew pours a honey amber. The mammoth head is about as big as a beer head can be. 1st pour = 1/4” of brew, the rest of the pint glass is head. The head is rocky, off white, stiff, fully lasting, and leaves behind perfect globs of lace sticking to the sides of the glass. The flavor has outstanding balance for the style. A floral malt start moves to a spicy acidic middle. The finish though decent could be more bitter. The light body is creamy and soft, the finish feels a tad dry. Very sophisticated for the style.

The aroma is a pleasent herbal. The color is golden with a huge, too large, light tan head. Head retention is fully lasting with thick lacing. While the bitterness is present the overall impression of the hops does not come through. Instead the palate is left with the bitterness but none of the appealling qualities of the hops.

Bottled, 22oz. Pretty standard IPA. Good but nothing unique. I like really bold robust hop, this seems a little flat to me. 12/10/07 rerated: upped from a 3 to a 3.5. This is tasting really good, more pine and kick than I recall.

Poured a slightly hazy light amber body with a good sized head. Aroma was grapefruit, citrus, spice, light caramel. Flavor was a little more bitter than most because the malt base was limited. Good but could be a lot better.