a mind is a delightful thing to waste

2/19/24

2024 - Post Holiday Whimsy and Madness

Mango laced in tangerine hop oils then spiked with fruit stripe bubblegum and blueberry juice.

Original Yellow Rose has been a staple since the Houston era started.

Houston stumbles with their lack of public transportation (no politics here). It's still a world class city with the incredible people and food.

Some of the top BBQ in Space City

1/27/24

Civitas Panthera

Cattus vehicles incedit

10/7/23

It's the most wonderful time of year

Electrified citra hops with ripened melon sewn into orange rind and charged peach peels

Saint Arnold is King of the Pumpkin Beer (Prior King: Elysian 1996-2015. Long live Dick Cantwell)

2011 was the first year it was brewed seasonally after being part of their Divine Reserve series a couple years prior. My pulpy memory still remembers it was the huge hit at the 2011 Great Pumpkin Beer Festival

Gather each witch

3/25/23

Happy Birthday Hubert aka Hubs

3/19/23

Tarnation

Caramel baked bread with toasted pear rinds and roasted candy apples. Great brewery in a great city. Reminds me of the Stone A.B. days.

3/12/23

The ocean called. They're running out of anchovies

3/7/23

03/07/05 a legend was born

Circa 2006

2/25/23

twisting and turning with you

Best. Band. Ever.

...so is the way of forever...

creamed pine cones, fruited peach roots, cidered mango salts... are those even things?

2/12/23

ANCHEAVY

Goat cheese, micro greens, air fried anchovies and olive muffaletta

FiReStoNed (((age))) WaLKer

Hazy grape honey starbursting into a tropical green apple mist

Kinda reminds me of mondo man.....

Super Bowl Sundae Driver

Hubert aka Hubs - Patron Saint of Hunting

Rest in Peace Our Sweet Little Dudes

Audie (2005 - 04/07/18) and Samson (2006 - 03/23/19)

||| Hiatus Over |||

I don't know if the links on the right still work. They'll remain as a testament to the cool, interesting, and foggy yesteryear.

I love you Em.... here's to keeping us going on until infinity... 19 years strong

https://cosmatomicblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/elysian-brewering-company-capitol-hill.html

2014-2023: Tons of good times with family, friends, food, beer, bands, and cats from Seattle to Houston

10/30/13

Halloween Movie Round-Up 2013

A wonderfully wretched wandering through the wickedly weird!

Piranha
Silent Hill: Revelation
Quarantine 2: Terminal
Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth
Frankenfish
Bloody Birthday
Axegiant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyon
Hatchet 3
Ghoulies
The Skeleton Key

4/14/13

Dayman - Aleman / Two Brothers / Stone

Wasp honey hive karate chopped full of coffee pellets and pear rinds.

Reclined

3/31/13

Happy Easterween

3/27/13

Seattle Beer Week 5th Anniversary Organic Pale Ale - Fremont Brewing Company

Seattle Beer Week on the horizon & Fremont sums up why the PNW rules: Fresh and green.

Plucked from the equator. Tropic resin crackers & mango waffle cones. 4.5%.

Now my days aren't all overcast

United

black death & the executioner

3/17/13

Bourbon Barrel Imperial Porter - Schooner Exact Brewing Company

Creamed peanut butter and whipped whiskey mousse. Carbonated purée of coconut & cocoa.

I feel reborn. I'm like a Phoenix rising from Arizona - Frank Costanza

10/31/12

H A P P Y H A L L O W E E N

Blight - Elysian Brewing

Toasted cinnamon & ginger crusted apple crisps. Sugar malted candy corns. Your dentist cringes at the mere aroma of this beer. 7.4%.

The undisputed masters of pumpkin beers. The end is beer.

10/28/12

Sangre Fall Feast

Pumpkin spiced, drunken jerk sauced pulled pork & coleslaw on a toasted ciabatta bun, beet bloody garlic aioli fingerling potatoes, and a beet, red onion, green pepper, cilantro salad coated in olive oil and pomegranate balsamic vinegar dressing.

10/27/12

Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter(s)

If brewing died off over tomorrow there is little doubt that beers under the 'Imperial Chocolate Pumpkin Porter' category would be the first ones re-liquidated by Herbert West.

10/13/12

Pumpkin Junction

My long overdue first trip to Beer Junction conveniently coincides with their 1st annual pumpkin beer extravaganza. Elysian are the Tyson of pumpkin beers but Puyallup's Jack O' Lahar was gingerbread torsos blended, blasphemied, and battered in boozed caramel icing.

Pumpkin beer milkshakes?!

Elysian Dark O’ The Moon / Elysian The Great Pumpkin / Elysian Hop Squash / Epic Ales Pumpkin Pie / Puyallup Jack O’Lahar / Southern Tier Pumking / Midnight Sun TREAT / Ace Pumpkin / Shipyard Smashed Pumpkin / Uinta Punk’N