Elysian Daedalus Irish Stout

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

Date: September 13, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub
Appearance: black, creamy beihge lace, solid lace
Aroma: sweet roasted malt aroma, caramel sweetness, dark chocolate
Body: creamy yet watery body
Flavor: roasted malt flavor, touch of caramel sweetness, dark chocolate bitterness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Draught, Capitol Hill
Very dark brown with a thick nitro head. Tartness and cheap coffee on the nose. Light and sweet flavour, just a very mild roastiness. A hint of tartness late. A really quick, knock ’em out style. It’s not that they didn’t do a good Guinness, it’s just that when you aim low it doesn’t mean much when you succeed.

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.

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.

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.

Draft at RNH. Pours a black body with an off white head. Light chocolate malt and a dry woody body. Simple and session able not bad.

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.

Draft at Elysian Fields. Pours deep black with a thick and creamy tan head. Vacant nose. Plenty of lace. Nitro-esque pour and far too hollow on the attack and the mid-palate, but there’s a bit of sweet chocolate there, along with a nice spicy hop in he finish, so all is not lost.