Elysian The Wise ESB

Pours an amber color with a thin white head and minimal lacing... The aroma while pleasing is faint with notes of caramel and floral hops... Tastes is a bit creamy as it should be, with notes of floral hops and sweet malts, but not the traditional sweet malts i expect in an ESB... The finish is a bit on the thin side with a bit of a lingering metallic taste...

22 oz. bottle. Pours a deep caramel with a strong, pillowy head (looks like ice cream). Aroma is of vanilla, caramel, dust, and overpowering cascades. Taste is first bitter with a little sweetness, followed by a strong bitter finish. Needs a bit more complexity. Not nearly as good as others but not bad.

Pours a filtered amber color from the bomber with a full off-white head that leaves plenty of lacing. Smells like a pale ale, but finishes like a bitter. Tastes of orange rind, grapefruity hops, and pine sap. A bit flat.

on draft at elysian, hoppy with only a slight bitter take to it. Typically watered down palate.

In the bomber bottle from Cousin Andrew. Dark orange amber with a medium to large off white head. Good grassy and floral hop aroma. Sweet fruity flavor that has a mild hop bitterness. Good, not great.

bottle, grapefruit orange cloudy pour, huge lasting latte head with lots of lacing, aroma of piney citrus and bread, malty flavor with sticky pine bitterness, finish is smooth fruit

tap @ brewery. Nice golden pour with retention on glass. Restrained malts and decent hops are well balanced but a little subdued. Overall a nice brew with a clean finish after a toasty malty biscuity touch while allowing for a little hop wiggle-room.

Poured a nice coppery color with a slghtly off white head that had some retention. Aroma had nice rich hop notes as well as earthy malt notes. Flavor had a decent hop kick with some malts to balance it out. The malt notes were not the sweet kind. The finish was nice and dry.