Elysian The Immortal IPA

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

tap @ brewerey. Nice hazy pour with great retention on glass. Solid floral hop nose backewd with a sticky caramel presence. Nicely balanced but brew allows for a powerful hop quality to shine through. Quenching and tooth coatingly tasty.

22 oz bottle poured a light amber color with a thin white layer of head. aroma has pine hops, resin, caramel malt, and light citrus underlying. mouth feel is medium with light carbonation and coats the mouth well for a single ipa. flavor is heavily resinous with pines and bitterness. malt is high enough to keep it from being one sided and mixes in with light sweetness. finish is bitter and lingering on the tongue. definitely on the resinous bitter end of the ipa. scale.

Smells of very sweet floral hops. Pours a light copper color with a very think white head. Taste is pungent hop flavor up front with a somewhat watery feel. Very tasty but not the best.

Bomber courtesy of riversideAK. Pours a bright clear amber with a one finger white head that recedes to a soap scum layer and results in fairly decent lacing. Nose is light caramel malts and citrus. Taste is malt, faint floral and citrus hops with some resin bitterness in the finish. Light-to-medium mouth feel. Pretty mellow hop profile but very drinkable. Thanks Alex!

This is a randomly and extremely sweet tasting IPA. Almost too overpoweringly sweet to my mind actually. Really pretty orange color though and a little bit of a bitter finish at the end. Better than average, but not by much.

2008 Bottle - Pours orange with a large off-white head, aroma is interesting, citrusy, but also sweet and malty - which the bottle is not....quite a dry IPA, resinous, serious hop bitterness, finishes caramely, but not sweet...one dimensional, and bitter to be bitter without any other tangible qualities...did I get a bad bottle maybe?

22 oz. bomber. Pours a clear golden/amber color with minimal head. Aroma of pine, citrus and soap suds. The flavor ranges from a citrus hop taste at first, followed by a sharper bitter pine hop. The hops were slightly offset by a caramel malt sweetness. Dry and bitter finish. Definitely an English style IPA.

Bottle. Pours golden orange with a big off white head. The aroma is orangey fruit, and floral hoppy. The flavor is quite acidic, and flroal hoppy. Not bad, but this would improve with a little more of a malt profile.