Sierra Nevada Beer Camp Moxee-Moron Imperial Session IPA
2016 Beer Camp Across America Collaboration with Bale Breaker, Barley Brown’s, Black Raven, Melvin, and Odell.
The city of Moxee, WA, is in the heart of the Yakima Valley hop growing region and this Imperial Session IPA—a style contradiction—honors the Pacific Northwest’s hop-bomb heritage. Moxee-Moron features hops in the mash, the kettle, the Hop Torpedo, and the fermenter for ultra-complex hop aromas and flavors in an ironically named package.
Brewed with Simcoe, Mosaic, Citra, and experimental hops.
The city of Moxee, WA, is in the heart of the Yakima Valley hop growing region and this Imperial Session IPA—a style contradiction—honors the Pacific Northwest’s hop-bomb heritage. Moxee-Moron features hops in the mash, the kettle, the Hop Torpedo, and the fermenter for ultra-complex hop aromas and flavors in an ironically named package.
Brewed with Simcoe, Mosaic, Citra, and experimental hops.
3.6
223 reviews
Chico, United States
Community reviews
Bottle sample at Beer Camp tasting at Beer & Beyond shop. Clear copper with a big creamy head. Aroma of malt,citrus and fruity hops, slightly stale. Taste - sweet malt, fruity hops, caramel, a bit buttery, strong bitterness, quite balanced. Medium-full bodied, smooth and oily. Decent.
Bottle sample at a Sierra Nevada Beer Camp tasting at Beer & Beyond, Tel Aviv. Clear golden with off-white head. Fruity aroma with notes of citrus (orange) and almonds, perfumed. Very bitter flavor with notes of citrus (orange, grapefruit), some graininess, caramel, sweetish, a bit alcoholic. Medium to full-bodied. Not so fresh but still ok.
From a 12 oz. bottle it is a clear golden color with a thick foamy white head.the aroma has hints of peaches and the taste is strong bitter flavor of grapefruit and and hints of pineapple. Bitter finish.
From a 12 oz. bottle. Pours a clear gold with a thick off white head. Fruity nose. Flavors of grapefruit and pinapple with a hint of mint. Bitter finish.
Bottle sample at a Sierra Nevada Beer Camp tasting at the Beer & Beyond shop. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma of rather stale fruity hops. Flavor has sweetish malt, a bit honey-ish, and bitter stale hops, a bit fruity. Medium-bodied.
Bottle. Packaged on: 04/05/16. A slightly hazy amber pour with a thick beige head. Grapefruits, zesty citrus rinds, resiny pine, and some caramel in the aroma. Goes down relatively thin-bodied. Caramel and sweet grains start things off taste-wise. Buttery bread. Grapefruits and citrus rinds finish things off. Resiny. Harsh. One-sided. Average at best.
Thought this was a session IPA when I first sipped it and wow was I wrong. Aroma was decent but a little off. Caramel and grapefruit rind with a hint of butterscotch. Pour was a nice hazy light orange with a one finger off white head. Taste was a big burst of hops, but not too strong. Very earthy with light citrus and roasted caramel malt keeping things even. As it warmed the hop flavor gave way to more maltiness. Not bad, but would loved more hops until the end. Good carbonation round the beer out. Best of the series in my opinion.
Poured into a shaker glass. Medium amber color with a cream colored head. Aroma is grainy malt with a bit of sweetness. Not getting much hop aroma. Flavor is caramel malt with some earthy and citrusy hops. Medium bodied with little carbonation. Pretty unimpressive...
Great initial smell of grapefruit and tangerine. Amber pour with good head and lacing. Some caramel and booze. Bittersweet finish. Bottle from mixed pack.
12 oz. bottle from a Beer Camp 2016 pack purchased at Stop ’n Go. Pours a barely cloudy light gold with some rising bubbles and a really persistent short finger of white head, uneven initially and settling uneven into a thickish lasting film. Heavy lace in the glass. Pretty assertive hop profile, with loads of citrus, pineapple, pine resin, mild spice, straw, bready malts, grass, florals, and a hint of apple-honey sweetness. Medium-bodied, with moderate to medium carbonation and a mouthfeel that starts and finishes (and lingers) bitter but has a smack of sweetness in the middle. Good IPA.
Pours a shade of copper orange with a small white head. Nose is deep citrus with lighter pine and resin. Taste is sweet citrus , with a clean cut of buttering hops. Finish is sweet citrus with a hoppy bitter ending. A very nice DIPA !
Quaff Score 8 / 10
This is a Northwest/Pacific IPA, but has some tropical flavors. I was getting some pinneapple and good amount of citrus. The whole Imperial Session IPA at 7.5% is a little confusing, and seems to make it sound fancier. A simple IPA seems to fit the category. Has a pretty clean and crisp feel....lighter on the malt. Well balanced. Another decent colab by Sierra and friends.
Bottle from the mix pack. Pours a tan bronze color. Light head. Smell and taste is a balanced hippiness despite the abv
12 oz bottle from the sampler case. All of these are really good and quite a surprise from the mostly average Sierra Nevada company. Try one before they’re off the market.
Bottle: Poured a golden with white head. Light hops nose. Taste is astringent hops with watery finish.
From QC. Drank w Matt before Just Dance reunion with Payal, Shaz and Eddie. Pours a limpid brown-orange with white creamy fizzy head. Smells of lightly musty apple juice, orange, quite a lot of pith bitterness, some light to moderate floral lightly grainy malt. Taste is moderate resin stony bitterness, light crystal malt, very silky palate. Imperial session IPA may be a (mo)xymoron but makes sense here: lots of flavour, but hop is dialled down. Very smooth - the malt and hop are restrained and fine. More toasty/fruity/floral than massively spicy or resinous. Not bad.
Bottle from QClub at home. Clear golden pour, persistent dense white foamy head. Aroma is apple juice and pine hops. Taste is nice clean bitter pine hops with a pilsner-esque malt behind it. Lasting bitterness with a slight booziness. Quite good - and I can kind of see the play on the empty crispness of a session IPA with the amped up booziness of an imperial one.
Thanks to altonbrownd for the bottle! Poured into a snifter showing moderately filtered honey with half a finger of clean white foam.
The nose shows a lot of bready malts.
The palate is fully carbonated and light bodied. Flavors show a lot of bready malts with light hints of lime. Light hoppy bitterness on the finish with malts on the linger.
Veru good too and quite bitter but it gives is its character. Easy to enjoy with some food and friends.
Bottle from the Beer Yard, poured clear amber with stubborn white head into a pint glass. Aroma is of resin and citrus, taste has sweet grapefruit hops notes with pine underneath. Medium bodied and creamy. Aftertaste is long with blend of bitter and sweet malt.
This is the first beer I’ve had that’s been billed as a imperial session IPA and it saddens me that this is actually a little surprising. Well, I’m not sad exactly but I just think brewers are really annoying people who should not be allowed to talk or write to anyone but each other. This beer is pretty is a pretty okay IPA. It’s slightly hazed w/ a full, creamy and long lasting head. It’s looks are the best thing about it frankly but the rest of it isn’t bad. I’m not quite crazy for the slightly savory hop character but this feels nicely balanced and drinkable--and I don’t mean balanced in the early 2000’s sense where if you made a bitter beer it also has to be sweet enough to rot your last three teeth out of your face. (Beer geeks had terrible dental hygiene back then.) I just mean that nothing about this is messed up or out of place in such a way that sticks out and makes it suck. So there you go, you ten thousand breweries who have your name on this thing: you made a beer that doesn’t suck.
From a 12 oz.bottle. Bottled May 2016. Pours clear yellow with good carbonation and white head. Fragrant floral hoppy aroma. Tastes of malt, grapefruit, pineapple, citrus hops, some resin and tangerine with lingering pleasant hoppy flavor. Medium body with good carbonation. Very tasty. But not that sessionable at 7.5 abv., if there is such a thing as a sessionable imperial ipa. Would definitely buy again.
Botled. Pours light copper with decent lace. Candied fruit and sweet biscuit make for a great IPA. Flavor is really sweet, somewhat oily hops with prickly carbonation.
Clear orange with a firm white head... this is a tropical fruit bowl.. plenty of citrus and melon and then some mango notes settle in...not exactly bitter for a "PNW" DIPA, but still pretty middle of the road.. Tasty... Would buy this over many of the other DIPA’s out there.
Crystal clear gold with big yellow/white head (some big bubbles). Malt and pine in the nose. Resiny hop flavor and dry finish. There is some syrupy tongue coating here too but lessened than normal. A session imperial IPA... WTF?
bottle, from High Craft Beer Market, Cary NC. packaged 04/05/16. Good aroma, sweet, spruce/pine. citrus, on the grapefruit/lemon side of things. clean golden orange color, ok head and lace. medium bitter, lightly sweet flavor. light body, creamy, oily feel, average carbonation, bitter finish. Solid IPA, wish I caught it fresher, but it wasnt showing any strong sign of being old either. I like the aroma best. flavor and finish have a citrus rind type bitterness that’s less appealing.
Brewed a variety of crap hops. +++Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a vibrant golden color with an enormous foamy orange-white head that lingered and left excellent lacing. The aroma was dry, citric and chalky. The flavor was bitter and dry with cactus, catbox, citrus and tequila notes. Very long finish. Medium body. Meh.
Bottle:
Golden-yellow with a thick beige head.
Orange, slightly sour grain scent.
Taste is orange-peel, grapefruit, caramel malt.
Creamy and richly hopped....Really good.
Aroma is spices, piney hops and grapefruit/citrus/light tropical fruit. The flavor is tropical fruit, hops/hop resin, true to the name, malts in the background but not too much so and a spicy/ alcoholic finish.
Tallahassee, Fl - Trader Joe’s - 12 oz bottle - part of the latest Beer Camp Mixer. Sparkling medium golden pour, tight white snow white head that sticks around a while and leaves a light film of lacing. Aroma has some light spruce accents, a bit of a buttery essence. Flavor is sticky with some heavy citrus undertones, some caramel sweetness, a touch of pineapple fruitiness. slight booziness in the finish. Thickish mouthfeel.