Elysian Dragonstooth Stout

Brewed by Elysian Brewing Co.
Style: Foreign Stout
Seattle, Washington USA

On tap at the Blind Tiger - NYC. Dark pitch black-brown, with a coffee cream head. Light coffee and roast aroma. Oooh. Great caramel, powdered chocolate and sweet cream. Complex roasty malt profile. Great body. Cream, light, airy. Light fresh chocolate cake. This is a fine foreign stout. Nice clean finish. An excellent, complex version.

22 poured black with a slight tan head, coffee/chocolate/caramel aroma with a finish of slight hops overall good brew.

Location: 22 oz bottle from Down beach Liquors, 9/11/09

Aroma: Coffee, bittersweet chocolate, some caramel, roasted malts, and a bit of earth
Appearance: Dark brown color, poured with a thin brown head, and a bit of lace
Flavor: Nice malty taste, coffee, dark chocolate, vanilla, roasted malts, some light earthy/pete hops
Palate: A nice, thick, medium-full bodied beer, smooth and creamy mouthfeel
Overall Impression: I think you need to allow this one to breathe for a bit to get the full affect of the nose. This beer has a nice flavor profile. It is a good, smooth stout, that I enjoyed quite a bit.

Color: Pitch black Aroma: Chocolate, milkshake Flavor: Like the aroma on the mid-palate followed by bitter, burnt grain which quickly fades and then reappears at the end of a rich, smooth, creamy coffee finish. Comment: Though not too complex, I liked how the flavor evolved and changed. This has the deliciousness factor for those with a moderate sweet-tooth.

Pours and deep dark brown/black, with light carbination. Smelled of sweet malt, rich and heavy. Taste - Sweet, mouth puckering sweet, too sweet. The bitterness (hop and malt) came in late and did not offset the sweetness I tasted. For me, this stout was way out of balance, not a beer I would pick up again.

Cask at Blind Tiger. Very enjoyable beer. It’s hard to find this style of around. The aroma is roasted coffee, bitter dark chocolate. The appaearance is a lovely dark brown, tan head. The flavor is very much like the aroma, roasted coffee, bitter chocolate. The finish is a combination od roasted coffee, hops. The mouthfeel is appropriate medium thick, creamy. Very good.

Bottle from Bottle Barn. Black with a creamy light brown head. Rich chocolate and oat aroma. Nice thick palate and a taste of chocolate, mild citrus, cherry, and finishing with a grainy taste.

22 oz bottle. This beer is pretty much black, just some dark brown showing around the edges, there is a big light brown head that slowly fades leaving a bit of lacing on the glass. Big aroma of chocolate, coffee, caramel, light smoke and some Pacific NW hop aroma buried deep in there too. The flavor is rich and sweet with some bittersweet chocolate and also some hop bitterness in there too. This is a full bodied beer with a very mild carbonation as it should and a smooth velvety mouth feel. Overall this is an excellent beer, a great sipping beer for when an Imperial Stout would be too much.