Moa Royal
Moa Brewing Company

Appearance - Pours a deep copper amber with three fingers of foamy off white head.

Smell - musty caramel malts, pine needle, leafy and earthy hops, toffee, warmth from the alcohol, and spicy yeast.

Taste - Musty caramel caramel malts upfront followed by the leafy and earthy hops. The toffee, hint of yeast, and warmth from the alcohol come through. There is somewhat of a candied orange to the taste.

Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes with a lingering sweetness from the malts alongside a pleasant bitterness from the hops.

Overall - A Belgian IPA that ventures off the traditional path. The candied orange is a pleasant twist to the style and it works. I wish the yeast played more a role in this one. But otherwise, a quaffable brew.

 

A solid IPA with lots of good flavours and aromas coming through - west coast with a touch of Belgium.

aroma: candied pine, stone fruit and notes of tropical fruit.

taste: pine, citrus, grapefruit, candied bitter orange with a solid malt backbone.

Pours a bronze with orange tinge. Thickly carbonated head which holds form well and dies to a solid half a centimeter foam.
Lots of white pepper, dark pine and simple tropical fruits on the first whiff.
My palate feels alot of bitter hops at the start which contains the white pepper and dark pine. This moves to some tropical fruits and ends very bitter and dry.

Overall a decent Belgian IPA. Lacking some extra tones and personalities but still very enjoyable to drink.

 

A - Pours a bronze colour with a slight pinky, orange tinge with a off white head that dissipates quite quickly

S - Nuttiness, sweet sticky toffee/caramel , tangerines, burnt orange but also a got a little white wine or riesling

T - Slightly boozy hoppiness at the front, sweet caramel malts prominent, musk candy lolly, burnt tropical flavours that warms nicely before a more bitter dry finish

M - Medium carbonation and medium bodied

O - Not a bad drop but lacks intensity in the flavours and has a rather bland dry bitter finish

750ml, caged and corked bottle. A 'Belgian Double IPA', so parse that as you will - I know I did.

This beer pours a hazy, medium bronzed amber hue, with a teeming tower of puffy, tightly foamy, but eventually airy beige head, which leaves some sparse, sudsy rain splatter lace around the glass as it slowly bleeds off.

It smells of musty, gritty caramel malt, warm toffee, steamed oranges (not really a thing, sure, but still), yeasty dough, wet pine needles, piquant lemongrass, and a soft perfumed booziness. The taste is rather herbal, leafy, and musty hops up front, a slightly biscuity, dry caramelized malt holding court, somewhat funky yeast, muddled tropical fruit notes, and more floral liqueur-esque alcohol.

The carbonation is supportive enough in its subtle frothiness, the body a stocky medium-full weight, and smooth like that shot of spirits you 'think' went down without a hiccup - wait, what? It finishes off-dry, the caramel malt apparently growing extra appendages, the hops hardly having to claim anything of the sort, and the lingering booze verging on stalker status.

For the 'style', which is already a 'double', by unmentioned inference (see: the progenitors of it all), this is a pretty heady and enjoyable version, as such. Fruity, hoppy, understated in its maltiness, and equally yeasty, with a lurking booziness that has the good sense to keep mostly to itself. I suppose the 'royal' moniker comes from the overall headiness of this offering, as well as the brewing region's yearning Commonwealth tendencies - no shame in that, not just yet.