Elysian Brewing

Microbrewery in Seattle, Washington, United States 🇺🇸
Owned by Anheuser-Busch InBev USA
Associated with 3 Venues

Established in 1996

Contact
1221 E Pike St., Seattle, WA, WA 98122, United States
Description
Elysian Brewing Company operates three locations of which Elysian Capitol Hill is the main brewery and a full production brewery – Elysian Airport Way, in the Georgetown neighborhood (since 2011). Known both for classic styles and for flexibility and innovation, Elysian has brewed over 500 different recipes since opening in 1996. While Elysian’s brewers use a variety of unusual ingredients, they are seasonally notorious for their pumpkin beers. In 2015 Elysian joined AB InBevs' family of craft brands.

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8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Opalescent golden colour, moderate sized off-white head; aroma of orange peel, grapefruity, pine resiny, some yeasty and grainy-malty notes: well balanced bittersweet taste with the same notes as can be felt in the aroma; good IPA
Tried from Can on 12 Nov 2023 at 02:08

6.9/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Deep brown pour with a slight orange tinge. Smell goes more with toasty and roast malts, and is not overwhelmed by pie spice. Also picking up roast pumpkin or pumpkin muffin. After that great nose, the taste is kind of a letdown. A bit over roasted. And now there's too much cinnamon coming in. But at least the slightly bigger abv can be detected. Just gets kind of harsh for a fall beer.
Tried from Can on 01 Nov 2023 at 01:41

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Single bottle from Binny's. Deep brown pour, persistent tan head. Smell of pumpkin and pie spice, comes up in nice proportion. Taste offers more pie spice, which overwhelms any coffee character. The coffee does turn up on the palate after a few sips. I'm actually getting a note of jalapeño pepper as well. Would have preferred some actual pumpkin to balance out the spice, which starts to get overdone further down the bottle.
Tried from Bottle on 16 Oct 2023 at 02:00

A snack...
Tried from Draft on 06 Oct 2023 at 16:46

7/10
On tap@TAP Sports Bar at Excalibur, 29/09/2023. Color amarillo corona de espuma blanca aromas y sabores frutales, floral, resinosa, cuerpo medio.
Tried from Draft on 29 Sep 2023 at 20:25

6.4/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 6.5
Bottle. Rich amber beer with a dark cream head. Spice and light vegetal aroma. Malt and spice flavor with citrus and vegetal notes. Medium bodied. Malt and spice linger with vegetal notes.
Tried from Bottle on 25 Sep 2023 at 17:16

6.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 5.5
Coffee helps to add a layer of complexity to the usual pumpkin beer spicing, but this is still a cinnamon and nutmeg bomb. Eh.
Tried on 22 Sep 2023 at 00:10

4.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 4 Texture 4 Overall 4
Bottle. For some reason I was expecting a black or super dark brown beer. This is not. Lighter than that but darker than pale. Olfactory is a typical pumkin spice nose, similar of most other punky beers. Can't really smell the coffee. Taste is much more mellow than I was expecting, for some reason I was thinking it would be a pumpkin spice alky bomb with lots of bitter black coffee, it is not. It does have some pumpkin spice and it does have a tad of coffee but overall it seems to be balanced for a pumpkin beer. Yeah, I can stomach this stuff when I usually quite abhor a pumpkin beer session. I was just going for tick on this one but it turned out to be somewhat decent.
Tried from Bottle on 08 Sep 2023 at 17:44

3.9/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 6 Flavor 3 Texture 4 Overall 2.5
OK, so I thot I already tasted this but no. Found this cheap ass bottle in the dollar clearance rack at moon pop & save more. Clear copper color may I say? Slight volatile pumpkin spice nose. Taste is big alky something cinnamon and whatever spices else, certainly the feel of the fall season. A warming sensation all round with the first big slug. Decent co2 level for a somewhat higher alky beer. Not as mouth coating as expected. Spices seem to keep getten in the way, whew. Can I taste pumpkin? Not sher, due to the overwhelming so called punky spices. Very similar in flavor to many other higher alky pumpkin drinks. Yea you know, the pumpkin beer connoisseurs say you cant really taste the pumpkin but i disagree. I guess I get a little bit of pepita here and a little bit of pepita there but still, the pumpkin is very hard to identify. Just another over the top spiced pumpkin thang. At least it does the job in the buzz department. There, you have it.
Tried from Bottle on 07 Sep 2023 at 20:17

4.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 3 Flavor 3 Texture 6 Overall 3.5
12 oz. bottle from the Seattle airport lounge. Pours a crystal clear gold color with a white head and very good retention. Great lacing. Light hops aroma. Very strong hoppy and bitter taste, with a long and dry bitter finish. For hop heads only. Medium body and medium carbonation. Tick.
Tried from Bottle on 04 Sep 2023 at 20:33