Elysian Brewing Company
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| Location | Seattle, Washington, United States | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 47°36′50″N 122°18′57″W / 47.613988°N 122.315805°WCoordinates: 47°36′50″N 122°18′57″W / 47.613988°N 122.315805°W | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Key people | Dick Cantwell (President/Head Brewer), Joe Bisacca, (CEO/Head of Operations) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.elysianbrewing.com | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Elysian Brewing Company is a craft brewer that operates three pubs in Seattle.
History
Elysian was founded in 1995 by Dave Buhler, Joe Bisacca, and Dick Cantwell. Cantwell had been a homebrewer who gained a reputation at the Duwamps Cafe, the Pike Place Brewery, and Big Time Brewing.[1] Buhler is a former spirits wholesaler and Bisacca was a vice president at Seafirst Bank. The original location was opened in 1996 in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Its capacity is 20 barrels.[2]
The company operated a brewpub at the local GameWorks arcade between 1997 and 2002. In 2003, their pub and bistro, Tangletown, was opened near Green Lake.[3] The largest location, Elysian Fields, was opened in 2006. It is a brewpub near CenturyLink Field that is often busy on gameday.[4]
In 2011, Elysian expanded its operations with a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) production-only facility in the Georgetown neighborhood.[5][6]
Beers
| Beer | % ABV | IBU | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avatar Jasmine IPA | 6.3 | 45 | A golden copper beer, with a lively head. The beer has a floral nose, with a balanced taste allowing the flavor of jasmine to prevail while still delivering the I.P.A.’s essential hoppiness.[7] |
| Dragonstooth Stout | 7.45 | 60 | Pours a deep, midnight black with a light tan head. Smells of coffee and dark chocolate and the mouthfeel is velvety smooth with flavors of roasted malts, oatmeal and warm bread. Dragonstooth is a very drinkable stout – satisfying but not heavy.[7] |
| Loser Pale Ale | 7.0 | 57 | Light tropical flavors balanced with a crisp malt-hop finish.[7] |
| Mens Room | 5.6 | 33 | Amber in color with a light hop aroma and toasty malt finish.[7] |
| Perseus Porter | 5.4 | 47 | Pours espresso brown with coffee ice cream-colored head. Gives off a strong coffee nose and tastes slightly smoky and malty with a dry-roasted coffee aftertaste.[7] |
| The Immortal IPA | 6.3 | 54 | A Northwest interpretation of a classic English style, golden copper in color and loaded with New World hop flavor and aroma. Extremely drinkable.[7] |
| Vahalla Red IPA | 7.5 | 70 | Citrus and floral hop aromas followed with a bright malt finish.[7] |
| Wise ESB | 5.9 | 60 | A reddish-copper thin, beer. Smells of caramel, honey, citrus and grassy floral hops entice while bold hop flavor against a very strong malt backbone.[7] |
| Zephyrus Pilsner | 7.5 | 80 | Pours a clear light golden color, and has a crisp refreshing finish.[7] |
Seasonal
| Beer | % ABV | IBU | Availability | Description |
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| Bete Blanche | 7.5 | 41 | Spring | Bete Blanche is extremely drinkable, blonde and somewhat treacherous.[7] |
| Bifrost Winter Ale | 7.6 | 58 | Winter | Pours golden with orange highlights. Smells sweet like caramel apples with a little spice and orange zest. Taste is bold and balanced with a good amount of citrus and earthy hop bitters to offset the malt character. Finishes dry with a bit of fruit.[7] |
| Dark O’ The Moon | 6.5 | 20 | Fall | Pours dark as night with creamy tan head. A little smokiness on the nose with malty bittersweet chocolate and a little coffee with subtle earthy pumpkin and spices for an overall nice and creamy mouth.[7] |
| Great Pumpkin Ale | 8.1 | 20 | Fall | Pours deep copper with ghostly white head. Intense pumpkin, sugar and spice on the nose with a nice bready and malty backdrop to tame all those autumn spices into a remarkably smooth, balanced and delectable fall treat.[7] |
| Night Owl Pumpkin Ale | 5.9 | 18 | Fall | A very drinkable pumpkin ale, brewed with seven and a half pounds of pumpkin per barrel and spiced in conditioning with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.[7] |
| Superfuzz Blood Orange | 5.4 | 45 | Summer | A mind-bending whirl of the aromas and flavors of blood orange and Northwest hops.[7] |
Pub Specialities
Elysian Brewing Company brews many beers, which are only available at their brewpub and restaurant or are sometimes seasonally available on tap in some Seattle pubs. A short list of these includes The Golden Boot, brewed in honor of Seattle soccer. Haleakala a wild yeast and tart flowers named after Maui’s easterly volcano. Hombre, a Mexican-style Lager, brewed as a house beer for our neighborhood friends at Poquitos. Xoxo is a nitrogen-infused, chocolate, chile-spiced Irish-style stout often brewed around Valentine’s Day.[8]
Brews
The Wise ESB was the first beer from the brewery. Elysian has won multiple awards for their beers. The Wise, Dragontooth stout, and Avatar Jasmine IPA have done well at the World Beer Cup.[9] The brewery's beers earned it the Large Brewpub of the Year award at the Great American Beer Festival in 1999, 2003 and 2004. The Immortal IPA is also popular.[10]
Elysian had a collaborative partnership with the New Belgium Brewing Company of Ft. Collins, Colorado.[11] The brewery also partnered with The Men's Room (a program on the Seattle rock music radio station KISW) to produce a red ale that has become popular in the area.[12]
References
- ↑ Higgins, Patrick; Kilgore, Maura Kate; Hertlein, Paul (1998). Secrets from the Master Brewers: America's Top Professional Brewers Share Recipes and Tips for Great Homebrewing. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 56–58. ISBN 978-0-684-84190-8.
- ↑ McFarland, Ben (2009). World's Best Beers: One Thousand Craft Brews from Cask to Glass. New York: Sterling Publishing Company. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-4027-6694-7.
- ↑ Tice, Carol (December 21, 2003). "Acquisition nibble prompted the owners of Elysian Brewing Co. to rethink their plans". Puget Sound Business Journal. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Morrison, Lisa M. (2011). Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest: A Beer Lover's Guide to Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Portland: Timber Press. pp. 98–99. ISBN 978-1-60469-089-7.
- ↑ "Seattle’s Elysian Brewing to Expand in Georgetown" (Press release). Seattle Beer News. January 24, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ↑ Jones, Kendall; Borg, Shannon; and Seattle Magazine Staff (October 2011). "Seattle's Macro Microbreweries". Seattle Magazine. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 7.9 7.10 7.11 7.12 7.13 7.14 "Elysian Beer". Elysian Brewing Company.
- ↑ "Pub & Specialty Beers". Elysian Brewing Company.
- ↑ "Washington brewers fare well at beer competition". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. April 21, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ↑ Kaiser, Geoff (December 6, 2010). "Seattle Beer News, Top 10 Beer Spots #8: Elysian Capitol Hill". The Seattle Times. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
- ↑ Ferrell, O.C.; Hartline, Michael (2010). Marketing Strategy (5th ed.). South-Western Cengage Learning. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-538-46738-4.
- ↑ Seely, Mike (August 4, 2010). "Men's Room Red Tastes Better Than It Sounds". The Seattle Weekly. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
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