Elysian Brewing Company

The Elysian Brewing Company is an American brewery that operates three pubs in Seattle. On January 23, 2015, it was announced that Elysian would be sold to Anheuser-Busch.[1] This deal means that Elysian Brewing Company will no longer meet the Brewers Association definition of a "craft brewery", since full ownership by Anheuser-Busch exceeds the definition's 25% maximum ownership by a non-craft brewery.[2]

Elysian Brewing Company
LocationSeattle, Washington, United States
Coordinates47.613988°N 122.315805°W / 47.613988; -122.315805 (EBC)
Opened1995 (1995)
Key peopleDick Cantwell (Founder)
Joe Bisacca, (CEO/Head of Operations, Founder)
Dave Buhler (Founder)
Carlos Brito (ABInbev Ceo)
Owned byAnheuser-Busch InBev
Subsidiaries3 Brewpubs
1 production facility
Websitewww.elysianbrewing.com
Active beers
Name Type
Superfuzz Blood Orange Pale Ale
Dragonstooth Stout Oatmeal Stout
Space Dust IPA
Mens Room Original Red
Dayglow IPA
The Immortal American IPA
Vahalla Red IPA Red IPA
Wise ESB Extra Special/Strong Bitter (ESB)
Zephyrus Pilsner German Pilsner
Seasonal beers
Name Type
Bete Blanche Belgian-style Tripel
Bifrost Winter Ale Winter Warmer
Dark O’ The Moon Pumpkin Stout
Great Pumpkin Ale Imperial Pumpkin Ale
Night Owl Pumpkin Ale Pumpkin Ale
Superfuzz Blood Orange Blood Orange Pale Ale

History
Elysian's Capitol Hill location.

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.[3] Buhler is a former spirits wholesaler and Bisacca was a home brewer and a vice president at Seafirst Bank. The original location was opened in 1996 in the Capitol Hill neighborhood with a 20 barrel capacity.[4]

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.[5] The company's largest location, Elysian Fields, was opened in 2006 near CenturyLink Field, which is often busy on game days.[6]

In 2011, Elysian expanded its operations with a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m2) production-only facility in the Georgetown neighborhood.[7][8]

Beers
Night Owl Pumpkin Ale.
Beer% ABVIBUDescription
Avatar Jasmine IPA6.345IPA[9]
Dragonstooth Stout8.060Stout[9]
Dayglow IPA7.465India Pale Ale[9]
Loser Pale Ale7.057Pale ale[9]
Men's Room Red5.633Amber ale[9]
Perseus Porter5.447Porter[9]
Space Dust8.273IPA[9]
The Immortal IPA6.354IPA with new world hops[9]
Vahalla Red IPA7.570
Wise ESB5.960Extra Special Bitter, Elysian's first brew[9]
Zephyrus Pilsner7.580Pilsner-style lager[9]

Seasonal

Seasonal beers include:

Beer% ABVIBUAvailabilityDescription
Split Shot6.028Spring
Bifrost Winter Ale8.358Winter
Punkuccino Coffee Pumpkin Ale6.020FallPumpkin beer[9]
Dark O' The Moon7.520FallPumpkin beer[9]
Great Pumpkin Ale8.120FallPumpkin beer[9]
Night Owl Pumpkin Ale6.718FallPumpkin beer[9]
Superfuzz Blood Orange6.445SummerAle brewed with blood orange[9]

Pub specialties

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. These include The Golden Boot, brewed in honor of Seattle soccer; Haleakala, named after Maui's easterly volcano; Hombre, a Mexican-style lager, brewed as a house beer for a local Mexican restaurant; and Xoxo, a nitrogen-infused, chocolate, chilli-spiced Irish-style stout often brewed around Valentine's Day.[10]

Brews

The Wise ESB was the brewery's first beer. Elysian has won multiple awards for their beers. The Wise, Dragontooth stout, and Avatar Jasmine IPA have done well at the World Beer Cup.[11] The brewery's beers earned it the Large Brewpub of the Year award at the Great American Beer Festival in 1999, 2003, and 2004.[12]

Elysian had a collaborative partnership with the New Belgium Brewing Company of Ft. Collins, Colorado.[13] The brewery also partnered with The Mens Room (a program on the Seattle rock music radio station KISW) to produce a red ale.[14]

References
  1. Garnick, Coral, Seattle's Elysian Brewing Sold to Anheuser-Busch, Seattle Times, January 23, 2015.
  2. "Craft Brewer Defined". brewersassociation.org.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. "Seattle's Elysian Brewing to Expand in Georgetown" (Press release). Seattle Beer News. January 24, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  8. Jones, Kendall; Borg, Shannon; Seattle Magazine Staff (October 2011). "Seattle's Macro Microbreweries". Seattle Magazine. Archived from the original on September 19, 2012. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
  9. "Elysian Beer". Elysian Brewing Company.
  10. "Pub & Specialty Beers". Elysian Brewing Company. Archived from the original on 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2013-04-22.
  11. "Washington brewers fare well at beer competition". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. April 21, 2008. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  12. Kaiser, Geoff (December 6, 2010). "Seattle Beer News, Top 10 Beer Spots #8: Elysian Capitol Hill". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on July 20, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
  13. Ferrell, O.C.; Hartline, Michael (2010). Marketing Strategy (5th ed.). South-Western Cengage Learning. p. 471. ISBN 978-0-538-46738-4.
  14. Seely, Mike (August 4, 2010). "Men's Room Red Tastes Better Than It Sounds". The Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on July 16, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2011.
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