Elysian Avatar Jasmine IPA

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

22oz bottle. Pours cloudy amber in color with white head. Aroma floral hops and sweet. Taste floral bitter hops and caramel malt with bitter finish.

Draught at Coles, Buffalo, NY. Pours a clear golden-orange with a large diminishing frothy white head. Mild aroma of mostly hops, a bit floral, along with some fruit and malt in the background. Flavour’s the same: Hoppy and flowery with some caramel malt backing it up along with some grain and fruit. Decent bitter finish. Average bodied. Pretty good.

Tap @ Cole’s. Copper body, white head w. nice lacing. Nose is pretty restrained - piney hops & light malt, some herbal strawberriness. Flavor is nice piney hops - herbal & rosemary. A bunch of early spring fruits. Nice strong bitterness at the very finish.

22oz bottle from Liquid Solutions. Pours a cloudy medium orange color with decent lacing of an off white head left behind. Interesting nose of faint Jasmine flowers and a touch of hops and sweet malts. I like how this brew was balanced, if it was any hoppier it would cover the Jasmine, cool stuff.

Draught. At Cole’s, Buffalo NY. Poured slightly hazy amber-gold with an average creamy-foamy off-white head. Fairly mild aroma, quite perfumey and sweet - definitely jasmine. The taste - jasmine, and lots of it - luckily I really enjoy jasmine tea with Chinese food so this was quite appealing ... once you acclimatize to the jasmine, you realize there’s a ton of dry floral hops underlying this, with a light roast body that is sweet, but not too sweet. Nothing wild or crazy about the mouthfeel, pretty average, slightly undercarbonated, but a nice long floral finish. One I’d have again for sure - great secondary hoppiness (burps, I mean).

Great smell from this fuzzy, bubbly head...lots of citrus and hoppy standard IPA aroma. Upon first sip I was massively impressed. Here is a beer that has a grounding in a good common style and has added a little twist with the jasmine. Although the herbal presence is certainly felt, it is not overpowering. The balance is really something spectacular here and the idea alone is worthy of a hoisted int round the brewery. However, as this warmed up, some of the flavours began to change and take shape into something that resembled more of a standard Belgian brew crossed with...well, jasmine tea. Lots of dryness in the palate and a hint of roasted cinnamon. Interesting stuff.

on tap at Coles Buffalo NY. Interesting IPA. Pours an amber orange. Floral, slight perfumy & muted hops aroma. Taste is carmel malts, floral, pot pourri-ish, with lingering hop bitterness. Very drinkable and enjoyable but not the hop bomb if thats what your into

Bomber pours slightly hazy copper. Aroma was not IPA like at all, slight hop and Jasmine, but not as much as I expected for an IPA. Flavor was more pale ale like and I could slightly detect the floral jasmine quality. Drinkable but not much wow factor.