Elysian Bye-Bye Frost

Brewed by Elysian Brewing Co.
Style: Imperial/Double IPA
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Golden-amber with a thick head. Lots of earthy hops on the nose w/ some sticky (almost) pale malts. Rich, sticky brew. Lots of earthy hops. The pale malts are clean, only mildly toasty and bring lots of sugars. The alcohol, the sticky malts, the clash of Amarillo vs. Hallertau (for this batch)...this doesn’t really work but it’s not bad.

Draft. Pours a mahogany body with a thin bubbly head. Chewy tawny bread y and doughy notes. Hops, hardly some light floral and pine notes. Ashen plum and some caramel sweetness. Moderate warming with a berry like sweetness. Decent, but a bomb for the style.

Tap at BT. Pours a deep amber with a thin head. Aroma is sweet, sugary brown sugar, herbal and citrus hops, fruity esters, and a sharp caramel sweetness. Hoppy flavor along with lots of malts an dsugar, earhty spicy and green-leafiness, some citrus and tropical notes- overly fruited with esters and fruity hops, cheesy hints as well- light tartness in the end- abc seems hidden. Meh.

Draft @ Elysian taproom, Seattle. Nearly opaque burne orange with tight lasting cream-colored cap. Big hoppy aroma and a thick sticky palate. Big body that finishes too yeasty and sticky for my taste. Soft carbonation and slightly medicinal flavors. Feels warming and hearty and is too big but still good.

Aroma was very barley wine like. Lots of malt up front, bread, biscuit, dougn, caramel, with a hint of alcohol and some floral and pine hops as well. Pours a murky golden orange with a thin head. Lots of malt up front as well in the flavor. More doughy sweetness, bread, caramel malts. A medium sweetness, with a spicy alcohol note followed by a medium hop bitterness in the finish that is floral, a little peppery. Not overly bitter, like I said it came across as a barleywine IMO. Pretty decent stuff.

@1221 e Pike St. Clear amber color/ white head. Big cascade pine, spicy hop, caramel aromas with mild pit fruit. medium body with light bubbles. Very good spicy hop, mild roast, floral, pine sap flavors on a rich caramel malty base. great ipa.

Tap at the Blind Tiger during NYC Craft Beer Week. Sweet, vegetable, pumpkin pie spice, tomato sauce aroma. Weird. Sweet tomato flavor, with a flat, lifeless body. Eh. Very unimpressive.

Tap at Elysian. Pours to a yellower bronze body with a creamy white head. Aroma is strong with Styrian hops. Smells very English. Flavor is hoppy with grapefruit amarillo and some dry Goldings and sweet barley. Almost like an ESB meets barleywine. Palate is bitter but balanced with malt. Booze was well hidden.

18-Jan-08 (Draft: 2008 Great Alaskan Beer and Barley Wine Festival in Anchorage, AK) This "quadruple" pale ale comes across as a light barley wine. Concentrated grainy flavors are fairly sweet and are balanced by the medium bitterness of the hops. Hops are neither citrusy or piney. After a few sips, the beer begins to seem sugary and overly sweet, though the bitterness still helps relieve the mildly cloying nature. The nose is sweet and intensely malty, but with a grainy overlay. When swirled in the glass, the aromas are even sweeter. Full-bodied on the palate, the beer is somewhat syrupy as well. Carbonation is light. Dark-gold to light-amber in color and hazy in appearance. Sizeable off-white head settles to and holds a thin layer and leaves a fair amount of lace. Overall, the beer lacks complexity and is awfully sweet and grainy. It doesn’t fair too well against all the great barley wines at this festival, though on its own, it might be fine.

Holiday Ale Fest... Orange with a white head. Faint malt and hop aroma, very herbal. Silky and smooth palate with sweet hops and pine, strong malt to balance it out. Oak and bourbon was in there too.