Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle Pours a hazy light orange/amber with a modest off white head. Coarse blocky lacing. Aroma is certianly flowery and sweet like honey. Jasmine I suppose, had I smelled Jasmine before I would know. Sweet honeysuckle is how I would describe the aroma. Remakably littel hops in the aroma. I dont notice the perfumy flavors lke my wife or beer sharing partner pinkzambia but it is there. More like a heavy lager to me. Hops are ci\onspicuously absent in the flavor as well. Particularly for the style. Low carbonation and smooth soft palate.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle Pours a thick inky black and generates a nice fluffy light brown head. Aromsa are a nice mix of sweet roasted notes and dark fruit. Purple grapes, prunes and molassas. Flavor is much more of the bitter charcoal taste. Plenty of sharp bitterness at the end. A moderately heavy feel and a bit of an unfiltered sediment feel as well. Was hoping for more "sweetness" in this sweet stout, but not dissapointing at all.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Elysian Fields Pale Ale from Elysian Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draught @ Flying Pig, Everett WA
Golden-amber colour with a finger of foam. Earthy aroma (really surprised this is Simcoe and Amarillo - maybe they changed it this year?) speaks of English hops with a hint of diacetyl. Woody, earthy bitterness balanced by toasty & pale malts. Flavour is clean. Nicely done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
[At GABF 2004] A hazy yellow beer with a small white head. The aroma is sweet flowery combined with notes of yeast. The flavor is primarily yeasty combined with a slight note of alcohol.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Perseus Porter from Elysian Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
[At GABF 2004] A hazy brown beer with a small disappearing off-white head. The aroma contains notes of honey and rosehips - not suiting for the style - rather a mead - but still OK. The flavor is slightly roasted, which gives it a dry end, but the body is thin. Just not enough of the good stuff.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Icarus (Bottleworks V) from Elysian Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5
Light bronze colour. Apple, apricot and alcohol aroma. How’s that for alliteration? Flavour is two-dimensional with firm alcohol notes and very sweet, caramelly malts. Cloying finish. Lacks the yeast and hop to be balanced (or a tripel, for that matter).
Oakes (33493) reviewed Cyclops Barleywine from Elysian Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Golden-amber colour. Aroma has off-phenols. Rich brown sugary character with butter and nuts. That would make a good dessert, but as a barley wine, it’s a little odd. Warming finish. Long, tasty finish.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Saison Elysée from Elysian Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Tan colour, very cloudy. The aroma is fun - leathery, phenolic, quite spicy. Fairly tart body, a little funky. Spicy, yeasty, a tiny bit gueuzy.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Dragonstooth Stout from Elysian Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Basically black colour with dark brown thick natural head. Roasty, nutty, rich aroma with dark chocolate hints and sweet dark malts. Rich palate and full body. By the numbers stout with roast barley & nutty notes draped over a bitter hop and sweet chocolate backdrop. Well-made. Ramping up the body without getting fruity and imperial works well for stouts.
Oakes (33493) reviewed Pride of Humongous from Elysian Brewing 20 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On tap at the Tangletown location. Intended as an Australian-style sparkling ale, but they threw way too many dark malts in the mash for that. What is it? Light amber in colour, and hazy. The aroma has some pear esters and a hint of malt. The flavour is lightly toasty, with some husky astrigency (the sparkling ale thing to me demands a refined malt like Maris Otter, preferably decoction-mashed for extra melanoidins and I’d be pretty surprised if that is what happened here). A little bit limited in terms of esters. I’m tending to agree with the Aussie contingent, too, about the shittiness of PoR. But I’d love for the brewers to lighten this us, get funky with the yeast, and give this another go because it would be cool as hell.