Contact Haze
Elysian Brewing in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - New England / Hazy Regular|
Score
6.72
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The day the world stood still and Elysian brewed a hazy IPA. Rules were broken to bring you contact haze, a tangled chemistry of mild haze, low bitterness, and an explosion of hop aroma. Bursts of bright raspberry, currant, citrus, guava, and passion fruit, with a slight floral note.
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6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Decent hazy IPA, no more, no less. Grapefruit, papaya, and stone fruit make for a juicy burst, and the finish offers a marginal bitterness. Good enough, I guess.
Tried
on 06 May 2021
at 03:54
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
The aromas are fresh citrus hops leaning orange with some biscuit. Flavors are similar to nose, on the dry side with a lingering bitter finish. Decent carbonation but a little thin.
Tried
on 21 Apr 2021
at 23:47
7/10
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2021
at 18:36
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can. Unclear pale yellow-golden color with white head. Aroma is piney, citrus, a bit white sugar. Taste is the same, quite grassy, a bit sticky. Oily mouthfeel with sparkly carbonation. I don't get the Haze part, but it's an okay, not a great IPA.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Dec 2020
at 13:52
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour looks like lemonaide with a large white head. Aroma is some generic grain malt with a citrus hop. Flavor is more citrus with some coconut showing up. This was ok. Decent citrus hop and that coconut came out of nowhere.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2020
at 22:05
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Can. Pours a near clear light straw yellow with a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has dry citrus with a hint of mango and melon supporting. Flavor has dry citrus and light citrus rind with a growing honey dew note.
Tried
from Can
on 04 Dec 2020
at 02:48
3.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 2
Texture 4
Overall 2.5
OK, another 12 ounce sock of IPA. Slight aroma of mah fah butyl rubber perfume, LOL. Hazy or not, can draft or bottle, they all taste the same; super spreader bitter: WTF? Its s'posed to be hazy but its clear pale as a bell. Stupid ass; if its hazy, make it hazy, just don't try to sell me some filtered bitter bastard beer as hazy: I don't care if it simply settled in the shelf sales cycle or not. Even if I swish around the dregs in the bottom of the can, its still clear, WTH? Well, at least its 6%, the same level alky as most cheap pale lagers. I simply just do not get this beer nor its style. Big fricken hairy thigh deal, its bitter and its a fad. Enjoy-ability factor? Easy to come by, since its available in thirteen different sub styles across the gahzillion IPA united states out there. Is bitter enjoyable? I guess you gottah be real man or woman or binary to appreciate, that. Keystone got it right, forget about bitter beer. Hops are a preservative and don't you forget it. In case you didn't get it already, you guessed it; I'm not impressed. At least in the finish you still got some semblance of co2.
Tried
from Can
on 03 Dec 2020
at 21:49
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
$2.00 can, Giant on Pantops. Hazy gold with a white head. Melon, peach, citrus aroma. Orange peel, seltzer, peach flesh, tropical fruit, lemon zest, aspirin.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Nov 2020
at 20:10
5.5/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Fairly light golden and orange coloured body with a very large, super soapy off-white head that fades quite slowly and leaves a terribly ugly lace on the sides. Strong dry and herbal flavours dominate the aroma with a tiny dose of citrus fruits, in the form of oranges with only a touch of sweetness and hardly no alcohol at all on the edges. Light-bodied; Strong grassy and herbal flavours show at first with a softer hit of flowers annd some perfume with a dry kick of grapefruit and full oranges and the associated bitterness, all with no real sweetness or secondary flavours nor any malt support. Aftertaste is very crisp with the dryness and herbal flavours the strongest and the bitterness quite strong as well, but that is it in terms of profiles. Overall, a fairly underwhelming beer, especially for the style, since while there was some citrus noticeable, there was no sweetness or juiciness and definitely not much haze. I sampled this twelve ounce can purchased from Food Lion in Oak Hall, Virginia on 14-June-2020 for US$1,67 sampled at my house here in Washington on 23-June-2020.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Sep 2020
at 07:02
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Light green onions and some peel. Not a ton here. A little caramel. Pours hazy orange with good head and lacing. Hop tang finish. Can.
Tried
from Can
on 01 Sep 2020
at 01:41