Elysian The Immortal IPA

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

Draught at the brewpub. Clear deep golden. Aroma of mango and grapefruit. Dry with clean but bold mouthfeel. There are juicy hops, but it ends with ashy bitterness. A good, solid beer, but nothing that stands out amongst the IPAs in the PNW:

Golden colour. Big hoppy aroma, some cascade, amarillo with fresh grassy resiny flavour as well. Aroma of grapefruit, grass/hay. Sweet malts, but low complexity. Clean yeast, resiny bitterness. Lingering bitterness.
Earlier Rating: 9/11/2005 Total Score: 3.4
Tap at GCBF. Very yeasty with large chunks suspended in it. Light brown/amber colour. Creamy tan head. Nice strong fresh resiny hop aroma. Flavour is of woodsy fresh hops, resin, pine, cedar, light caramel, a bit of toffee. Light yeastiness and a touch of fruit. I suspect this would be better without all the yeasty notes. Lighter bitterness than the aroma suggests.

Besmirched goldenrod. Small, yellow dusted whitish top of fair foam. Exquisite lacing in patchy sheeting. Clean, soft, aroma of orangey/grapefruit citric spruce pine needles. Rounded hoppy taste with a nice balanced front and middle. Malts keep a nice sweet side to its overall. A toasted surge gains control therein and sticks for the duration of the entire ride while a prevalent hop flavor provides some significant piney flavors. Finish is a spectacular blaze of firey hop qualities with leafy/pulpy texture, a surging, controlled bitterness and drying bite, with a complex array of pinewood bark, needles, and oils mixing with glazes of citrusy impressions adding nudges at the corners of the palate with orange, grapefruit, peach, pineapple, and lemon. Beautiful finish with a very nicely handled balance and bitterness that doesn’t quite blow away all factors of taste and palate. Feel is well rounded, smoothly accurate and comforting for an IPA and its overall drinkability with a slippery medium body and finely placed, fairly easy going bitterness. As it warms this becomes one hell of a beer. It really gains a respectful amount of body, texture, hop action, and overall flavor ride. A gem of a brew from the folks at Elysian.

Immense and yummy. I like everything I have tried from these guys so far. The head on this beer was monstrous, and so was the aroma, not that the aroma was that great, a bit of funkiness, almost like dirty dishwater, and the flavor is kind of earthy and musky, but it is delicious,

22 oz bottle (Dec 2004, Sam’s in Chicago). Totally different label from the one shown. Pours an immense, lasting head of thick meringue atop a dirty, hazy amber body...fairly spicy, lightly woody, citrusy nose...nice but muted...full-bodied, fruity-woody flavor profile to begin with, dry hoppiness grows throughout along with strange peppery hotness...body a bit thinned and dusty, but still capable of sustaining the burning fury that is the finish of this fascinating creature...sour cherries, dried wood, burnt caramel...this is a very interesting attempt, I wonder if it is actually improved or at least made more complex and weird by a year in the bottle? Best I’ve had yet from these guys.

(Bottle) Pours a lightly cloudy orange body with a thn off-white head. Aroma of mild citrus, bread, and caramel. Flavor of mild hops and caramel with a bitter finish.

on tap at good times, pretty good, hoppy and malty with a bite of the Northwest, i don;t know what that means but it sounds good and i know i mean it, typical IPA good not bad decent but not mediocre citrusy in general

Pour is bright deep golden in color with another huge off white head...smell is nice with soap, pine, and grapefruit, but not overdone...I would not have guessed by the aroma this was PNW or even West coast...taste is phenomenally balanced...nice and slightly sweet quickly and slickly turning warmly bitter, but NOT in your face...very well done and way under-rated.