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Avatar Jasmine by Elysian Brewing

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Rating: 3.8/5

Avatar Jasmine by Elysian Brewing is a 6.3%ABV India Pale Ale made with Jasmine Flowers.

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East meets West Coast with a unique floral aroma and smooth dose of hops. Avatar is an excellent beer for pairing with food.
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Low on bitterness, higher on floral sweetness is what mainly composes this IPA. The flavors of overwhelming honey, (The way flowers smell), green grapes and grassy hop notes. Not sure what Jasmine taste like but that is similar to what I can get from this beer . There is some citrus and toast and biscuit flavor in the aftertaste. This beer Reminds me of that DogFish Head Noble Rot which was sort of like a wine beer hybrid. There is nothing too bitter about this beer but it taste pretty good regardless. However IPA fans, if you are strict to the HOP, this is not for you. If you are open minded for sweeter yet hoppy beers, then give this a try 🙂

Elysian Wasteland

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Rating: 4.75/5

This is a series from Elysian, The 12 Beers of the Apocalypse. “The End is Beer”
Beer#6 (June) Wasteland is a 6.8% ABV Saison/Farmhouse ale made with dried Elderflowers and French Saison yeast

Wasteland, in reference to the apocalyptic event, is what will the result of a nuclear winter during the end of the world if caused by wars. The sun will not shin through killing everything on earth making it well..a wasteland…will there be survivors after 12-21-2012? If so, will there be anyone that will help each other out or will it just be survival of the fittest. Such would be the cruelty of fate for man’s true corruption bloom…ElderFlower Saison speaks…

This is pretty damn good sweet saison. Saisons have been some very good mystical, herbal, bread and sweet beers made with all sorts of botanicals at times. This one made with Elderflowers. The stuff that makes blue, black, and red berries. Hence forth, a brew that taste like flowers, bitter blue or black berries, apples, pineapple, raw peppers, coriander, lots of farmhouse herbal sweet bread, jasmine tea, biscuit, bubble gum, brown sugar and the way roses smell this tastes. Quite the floral little beer and a damn good saison. People that enjoy saisons will like this one..

Elysian Peste

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Rating: 4.25/5

This is a series from Elysian, The 12 Beers of the Apocalypse. “The End is Beer”
Beer#4 (April) Peste is a 7.5% ABV Chocolate Chile Ale brewed with cocoa, cinnamon and a blend of chipotle cayenne, ancho, guajillo and pasilla peppers.

Peste/Pestilence a.k.a La Peste or the Plague is in reference to the theory that the world will end through an epidemic of diseases that will wipe out the human race. Either that or an infection that will turn people into zombies…lol…regardless, this has been a debated theorized event that may happen in 12-21-2012 or whenever the world ends. The plague can come from anything either biological warfare, a mass amounts of insects, poisoned food or water, you name it.What a fitting name to a beer that not many people will like. A poison to unworthy palettes, but an ambrosia to the Heros of Heat. This beer reminds me a lot of the Cocoa Mole Ale of New Belgium. The dark chocolate flavors, with the cinnamon, coffee, vanilla, and the variety of chiles makes this taste like a really hot champurrado (Mexican Atole made with Flour) and I don’t mean the temperature. The spicy heat provided by this beer is sort of immense to a mild to medium heat. Let me honest, if you DO NOT LIKE SPICY FOOD STAY AWAY. My level of mild to medium could be your medium to hot or even very hot!!! It is hotter than some of the other chile beers I have tried but because it embraces the cinnamon and the dark chocolate coffee, it balances out all the heat. It is a nice beer but I’ll be honest, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the water. Now the day they brew a beer that is very hot like habanero, LOL I would probably drink it in shots or cook with it for sure :P. A good beer if you can find it though and …only if you like really spicy beers… 😛