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Elysian Ruins You On May 21st

Elysian will release the fifth beer in their 12 Beers Of The Apocalpse this weekend.  Ruin Rosemary Agave IPA arrives May 21st.   The artwork is from comic artist Charles Burns.

On 5/21

6:00PM — Official Tapping of RUIN Rosemary Agave IPA

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Elysian Prometheus Arrives In May (PR)

(Seattle, WA) — Prometheus has a long and complicated history, beginning back when head brewer Dick Cantwell worked at Big Time Brewery and Alehouse in Seattle’s University District. His assistant at the time was Bill Jenkins, who followed him as head brewer Continue Reading →

Elysian Celebrates Seattle Beer Week With Split Shot

Elysian Brewing Company’s Split Shot Espresso Milk Stout is brewed in celebration of Seattle Beer Week (May 1oth -20th, 2012.) The milk stout features Lighthouse Coffee from Lighthouse Roasters in Seattle.

Espresso Milk Stout Beer and coffee are Seattle siblings, jealously dividing Continue Reading →

Posted in Elysian Brewing, New Beers

Elysian Mortis Sour Persimmon Ale

Elysian Mortis Sour Persimmon Ale

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Elysian Brewing, New Releases

Elysian Vahalla Red IPA Joins Manic Series This Month

Elysian Vahalla Red IPA

Elysian Brewing (Seattle, WA) will add Valhalla Red IPA to the Manic IPA Series in October, 2012. The series allows Elysian’s brewmasters to go a little hop crazy. This edition the specialty malts give this beer a red hue, to accent the chosen hops in this brew.

Fill your horn with this hoppy red IPA of pale, Special B and just a pinch of roasted barley, bittered with Sorachi Ace and finished with Citra hops.

Style: IPA
Hops: Citra, Sorachi Ace
Malts: Pale, Special B, Roasted Barley

Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft.
Arrival: Sept-Dec, 2012

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Elysian Brewing, New Belgium

New Belgium & Elysian Go On Their Newest “Trip”

New Belgium Elysian Trip Series Blonde AleElysian Brewing & New Belgium Brewing have teamed up to create an imaginative blonde ale.  Trip Series Blonde features honey and chamomile.  By all I we can estimate – this is the 13th release in the “Trip” Series.  Each one is brewed at Elysian in Seattle.  (Don’t be confused. The label says “by NB in Seattle.”

When 2 breweries set off to make great beers together, the end journey is the beginning of a every new trip.  Care to join us?  www.newbelgium.com/trip

Style: Blonde Ale (w/ honey & chamomile)
Availability: 22oz bombers, Draft.
Arrival: TBA

5.1% ABV

Quick list of the previous “Trips”

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Elysian Brewing, New Releases

Elysian Ruins You On May 21st

Elysian Ruin Rosemary Agave IPAElysian will release the fifth beer in their 12 Beers Of The Apocalpse this weekend.  Ruin Rosemary Agave IPA arrives May 21st.   The artwork is from comic artist Charles Burns.

On 5/21

6:00PM — Official Tapping of RUIN Rosemary Agave IPA

7:00PM — Survival Demo by Bryan & Co.

Throughout — Giant boulder bowling, construction/destruction games, & more

Don’t forget to bring your APOCALYPSE BEER SURVIVAL GUIDE to this event to collect your fifth stamp. We hope that you have been collecting them all because you will be well rewarded at our final End of the World Celebration 12.20.12! Monday 21st 6-9pm at ELYSIAN CAPITOL HILL

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Elysian Brewing, Press Releases

Elysian Prometheus Arrives In May (PR)

(Seattle, WA) — Prometheus has a long and complicated history, beginning back when head brewer Dick Cantwell worked at Big Time Brewery and Alehouse in Seattle’s University District. His assistant at the time was Bill Jenkins, who followed him as head brewer there when Dick left to start Elysian Brewing. Offered the chance to come up with a new recipe, Bill originated Scarlet Fire, a reddish IPA with solid hop character. Another head brewer later, this time Kevin Forhan (with whom both Bill and Dick had worked at Pike Place Brewery), a little recipe alteration and a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival, and Scarlet Fire became a Big Time mainstay.

Fast forward several years later, with brewing stints by Bill in Ireland and Kevin in Spain in the interim, and now-Elysian Fields brewer Kevin, Dick and Capitol Hill helmsman Markus Stinson put their heads together—to Bill’s amusement—to come up with an answer to the Fire. The result was Prometheus, a classically fierce Northwest IPA redolent of Chinook, Cascade and Centennial. Informally referred to as the Stolen Fire—remember that Prometheus stole fire from the gods to provide it to mankind, a crime for which his liver was eaten daily by an eagle— Prometheus has been a cult favorite at the Elysian pubs ever since.

Now for the first time Prometheus is plentifully available in bottles and on draft at local stores, restaurants and alehouses. Nine hop additions offer layer upon layer of hop complexity, with three dry hop additions alone. The beer is light copper-red in color and weighs in at 6.7% abv. Label art shows a fire-eating juggler breathing flames, a fitting image for the next beer in Elysian’s Manic IPA series, earning a place in our new urban pantheon.

Availability: May-August.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Elysian Brewing

Elysian Celebrates Seattle Beer Week With Split Shot

Elysian Split Shot Espresso Milk StoutElysian Brewing Company’s Split Shot Espresso Milk Stout is brewed in celebration of Seattle Beer Week (May 1oth -20th, 2012.) The milk stout features Lighthouse Coffee from Lighthouse Roasters in Seattle.

Espresso Milk Stout Beer and coffee are Seattle siblings, jealously dividing the day. Split Shot combines the talents of Elysian’s brewers with a pound per barrel of cold-infused, Seattle-produced Lighthouse coffee. It’ll open your eyes to a delicious new beer. Split Shot is the Official Beer of 2012 Seattle Beer Week.

Style: Milk Stout (w/ Coffee)
Availability: 22 oz bombers
Arrival: May, 2012

5.6% ABV 

More about Seattle’s Week: http://www.seattlebeerweek.com/

 

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Beer News, Elysian Brewing

Elysian’s Second Rapture Brew Hits Today

Elysian Rapture Elysian welcomes the end of the world with the release of Rapture Heather Ale today.  In preparation for the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar, Elysian is releasing a series of 12 beers that are released on the 21st of each month during 2012.  The second of these 12 Beers of the Apocalypse will be Rapture Heather Ale.

Rapture will be available both in bottle and draft.  This 7.65% ABV ale has 1 lb. of heather tips per barrel.  The brew’s malts used are pale, Munich, and Patagonia Especial and the hops are Magnum and Northwest Glacier.

[Rapture Heather Ale]

by Reid Ramsay