Elysian Rosemary’s Baby

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

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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2011 Washington Cask Beer Festival – Seattle, WA
Amber in color, hazy with a thin head. Rosemary spice in the nose along with the floral hops. Tasty from the start you get the Rosemary spice in every sip it is subtle and adds to the IPA flavors and malts. Very nice spiced brew.

Draft. Medium off-white head, hazy amber body, nice lacing. Aroma is medium sweet, rosemary, some orange/earthy, light spicy. Taste is medium sweet, earthy/orange, some grapefruit, rosemary, light spicy.

Draft at Churchkey. Clear amber, solid white head with solid lacing. Floral/perfume aroma. Taste starts malty then citrus with a scant sourness and a biter finish. OK.

Heavy herbal, rosemary aroma, some general spiciness. This beer tastes very heavily or rosemary muted biscuity malts and a resinous finish to it. Very dominated by the herbal component. It actually caused me to roast a chicken with a bunch of rosemary the next day.

Draft at Elysian. Pours very hazy unfiltered dark rusty golden with a very little head. Nose is fairly subdued with touches of light wheat esters, piney hops and the Rosemary is light and almost oily like. Full bodied with good amount of balanced malty wheat up front, then moves into a bitter rosemary infuse earthy pine, and finishes up with bitter bready biscuit. Uniquie.