Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA

Brewed by Elysian Brewing Co.
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
Seattle, Washington USA

Pours dark clear yellow with white foamy head - doesn’t look like typical ipa. Minimal earthy hop aroma. Flavor watery, bit creamy with slight earthy pine hops. Not very good.

pours a semi-couldy with a medium sized egg-shell head, good lacing.
smell of caramel, citrus, wild flowers.
taste is same as smell with a touch of malt in the back, slight bitterness.

22 oz bottle from BottleTrek.com. Pours clear amber, with a few floaties. Big frothy head with nice lacing hugging the sides of the pint glass. The high carbonation release a floral and perfume aroma. Flavor is similiar, but a bit too sweet for me. Mild hop bite in the finish, but there is also a strong herbal presence. Definitely not your traditional IPA, but somehow it sort of works. Not my favorite, but brownie points for effort.

Well, I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t tried it. I don’t know what Jasmine flowers taste like but I will say this sucker taste pretty damn flowery. Plenty of hops & pine flavor to boot. Sort of makes me wonder if that 40IBU is right. Either way this is a solid IPA. Don’t know if it would be a regular drinker but would be perfect on draught for every now and then.

Hazy copper color. White head, citrus aroma with a little bit of malt. Decent bitterness. Nice honey and floral sweetness. Interesting, but not my favorite.

Tap at Ginger Man: Pours a slightly hazy golden with a white film for head. Citrusy aroma. Tangerines and honey with a biscuity malt back. Nice texture; creamy nd tightly carbonated. Semi-sweet flavor. Honey soaked citrus fruits upfront, with a touch of biscuit in the body. Finish is more botanical with a mild but balancing herbal finish with a note of violet. Decent IPA, well integrated.

Bottle from New Beer Distributors. Dark amber with good head. Nice floral citrus aroma and faint malt. Taste is similar with floral/herbal high pitched notes mingling well with the hops and supported by mild malt. Refreshing.

Bomber from New Beer distributors. Sat on the shelf for less than a week before drinking. Pours a mostly hazy light orangey copper with a dull carbonation and a nice frothy white head and sick lace. Aroma is a touch weak, but there is some jasmine flowers, hints of vanilla bean, light citrusy american hops, a bit floral hosp as well with a creamy doughy malt backbone- perhaps a bit of doughy yeast as well. Flavor is moree intense with the jasmine and the hops- lightly minty, floral, and lgith citrus hops with a decent crackery pale malt backbone. Herbal earthy almost astringent bitterness.