Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale - Moylan's Brewery

EPICAC

Massachusetts

4.13/5  rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Hopsickle pours a cloudy copper color. It's topped by a creamy, off-white head that retains well, and leaves good lace. The aroma is intensely hoppy with notes of citrus, juicy fruit, apricots, a bit of pine, and slight, bready malts.

Sweet notes of caramel and raw sugar upfront are quickly met by a strong, hop bitterness in the center, which moves into a resiny finish that leaves a lingering bitterness. This Double IPA is medium-bodied, oily, and has a nice, prickly carbonation.

The hop aromas, bitterness, and flavors in this beer are insane.

Serving type: on-tap

02-18-2010 03:53:01 | More by EPICAC

Photekut

Azerbaijan

4/5  rDev -2.7%

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Pensfan0782

Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev -8.8%

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2beerdogs

California

4.5/5  rDev +9.5%

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Pennsylvania

4.5/5  rDev +9.5%

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powdersoldier

Washington

4.25/5  rDev +3.4%

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zonker17

Illinois

4/5  rDev -2.7%

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California

5/5  rDev +21.7%

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Texas

4/5  rDev -2.7%

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Louisiana

4.5/5  rDev +9.5%

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Connecticut

4.5/5  rDev +9.5%

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leftoverburrito

Oregon

3.75/5  rDev -8.8%

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Kelp

New Hampshire

4/5  rDev -2.7%

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JMScowcroft

Vermont

4.49/5  rDev +9.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Moylan's Brewery - Hopsickle Imperial India Pale Ale

Look - Pours a copper amber tinged with a glorious soapy head. Full sticky lacing. A little rambunctious in the carbonation.

Smell - Bitter citrus grapefruit/lemony hops with rich malt underneath. Mouth-watering.

Taste - Malts get overridden by a wave of blasty hops. It seems like it's about to fade out but it comes back in like the tide, getting more and more potent over time. Holy moly!

Mouthfeel - Even with the hop assault and high ABV this is quite drinkable. Sticky smooth malts, only slightly boozy but it stays quite smooth.

Overall - Solid hop blast. Hops heads will thoroughly enjoy. Definitely recommend.

Serving type: bottle

05-04-2013 12:12:08 | More by JMScowcroft

strib

Texas

4.75/5  rDev +15.6%

05-03-2013 02:43:22 | More by strib

troy138

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev -2.7%

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TheBrewo

Michigan

3.96/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

We pour a dark brew of burnt sienna, with lighter hues of orange let through around the top. It holds a one and a half finger head of toffee colored bubbles, showing decent retention into a massive aggregate of soapy bubbles. This is easily reproducible. Thick, geographic patterns of lacing are left all around the glass. Clarity is low, as a thick, cidery haze permeates the beer, with flecks of tiny sediment found here and there. Carbonation appears to be active. The nose is very malt forward, with deep toffee, roasty caramels, and salty molasses. These notes are, however, met by big hoppy qualities of pine and raw grassiness, with a nice amount of mineral and earthiness to them as well. Otherwise the aroma is fleshed out with browned apple sweetness, light maple sugars, warmed cinnamon, clove, vinyl plastics, iced tea tannins, and soft lemony citrus. With warmth comes a cooled milkiness, with a bit more to the acidic side of the balance, along with more herbal spiciness of hops, and an interesting curry and turmeric heat. Our first impression is that the flavoring is much more bitter than expected, with a surprising robustness to the hops that was hidden by the big malty aroma. As we sip, the taste begins with heavy caramel sugars that are quickly cut by impressively bittered soapy and citric hops. The booze is also immediately apparent, with additional dryness coming from that aromatic tannic quality and dried walnuts. The peak is the mildest moment of the sip, with mineral water wash, rock salt, cooled stone, and earthy hops. Pulling to the finish are further notes of bitterness through plastic phenols, herbal clove dust, bittered mineral, chalky yeast, fusel booze, and a surprising cooling smoothness of buttery diacetyls with warmth. The aftertaste breathes of chalk, yeast, bittered soapy, earthy, herbal, and somewhat piney hops, lemon rind, mineral, roasty coffee-like malts, and raw clove. The body is full, and the carbonation is medium, but soft. Each sip gives big slurpability, with nice cream and froth through the middle, and pleasant finishing pop and smack. The mouth is left bone dry and chalky following an initial syrupy coating and cooling. The abv is appropriate, and the beer is a quick sipper.

Overall, what we enjoyed most about this beer was the aroma. With warmth it seemed that every time we sniffed it became a different beast. At first there was this seemingly impenetrable wall of caramel sugariness, with malts all day long. As it progressed the hops blossomed before your eyes, giving appropriate bitterness, fruit, and twang. Through the taste is where they pull the old switcheroo, with the hugely puckering, bittered hop onslaught of hops across the tongue to follow. This was definitely unexpected, and kind of threw us a bit. Otherwise the sip is soft and nicely contributory, and this is sipping, sharable beverage.

Serving type: bottle

04-26-2013 22:47:31 | More by TheBrewo

Kenai4

Minnesota

4.5/5  rDev +9.5%

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California

4.75/5  rDev +15.6%

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Pennsylvania

3.75/5  rDev -8.8%

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New York

3.25/5  rDev -20.9%

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Washington

4.5/5  rDev +9.5%

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California

4/5  rDev -2.7%

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Virginia

3.5/5  rDev -14.8%

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Hendry

Vermont

3.96/5  rDev -3.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

The name itself invites hop hungry seekers, and I decided to break down and drop the ten spot. Upon opening the top, it doesn't blow you away with citrus notes, but when poured it exudes a pleasant nose, not one that is hop crazy as the moniker suggests.

It pours a slightly murky off orange with a small white head. The nose is hoppy, if underwhelming a bit. Bready and with some grapefruit rind in the backdrop: inviting enough but not mouthwatering as a $10 bomber should be.

Flavors are full, strongly bitter pine and bread dough, with an oily resinous feel that coats the palate and sticks around for an eternity. The flavor is robust and savory, a bit boozy, and the aftertaste is notably bitter. At 9.2 abv it kicks like a country mule,has an intense bitterness to the hops, but lacks the citrus qualities I lean towards.

Serving type: bottle

04-13-2013 05:20:45 | More by Hendry