Elysian Daedalus Irish Stout

Brewed by Elysian Brewing Co.
Style: Dry Stout
Seattle, Washington USA

Guest beer on nitro at the 1221 E. Pike Street brewery in Seattle, Washington. Pours an opaque dark brown brew with a creamy off-white head that has some excellent retention and lacing from the nitro charge. Aroma of toasted dark malt, dark chocolate, a touch of coffee and some dark pitted fruits. Taste is smooth and semi-sweet with flavors of toasted dark malts, chocolate and some light coffee. Finish has a mild metallic texture with some smoothness and toasted dark malt aftertaste.

Draught @ Elysian Fields. Pours a black color with a longlasting creamy tan head. Roasted malty chocolate and coffee aroma. Roasted malty chocolate flavor. Creamy roasted malty finish.

On tap at Elysian Fields--Poured a deep, dark black body with a glow of amber in the light. Nice thick beige head and and a dark nutty, chocolate nose. Mild coffee an d toffee notes. Creamy, smooth with a roasted complexity. Finished with some fruitiness and a gentle quaffability.

Tap at Barcade: Near opaque pour with ruby at the edges in the light. Aroma has dark malt character. Chocolate and mild coffee roast. Fizzy and thin body. Not an appetizing texture. Flavor has less character.Grainy chocolate and stale coffee grinds which lead to an ashy/metallic finish. Unpleasant roasted and bitter character stays on the tongue. In-cohesive and unappetizing.

Black,creamy tan head.Dry roasty nose.Light roasty mocha profile, hint of chocolate. Dry roast finish

Nitro pour at Blind Tiger. Black beer with a thick lasting beige head. Aroma is toasty and lightly chocolatey. Dark bitter chocolate and a fairly prominent roastiness. Flavour is okay, soft roastiness, earthy with a lightly fruity estery character as well. Pretty decent, really.

Nitro at BT. Pours a nice deep dark almost black with a lasting beige nitro head and great lace. Aroma is light toast, wet stale malts, light roast and stale coffee. Flavor is a bit astringent, acrid burnt malts, light dull chocolate and some wet paper- old coffee grinds as well. Finish is bitter, astringent and a bit harsh. Meh.

A simple enough dry Irish stout. Does a good impersonation of Guinness I guess, but surely not even a Victory Donnybrook for flavor intensity, and the Victory has much lower alcohol, great in an irish session beer. Thin and dry, with a good "nitrogen" cream mouth. But just not very interesting.