Elysian Brewing Company

The Elysian Brewing Company is an American brewery, owned by AB InBev, that operates two pubs in Seattle.

Elysian Brewing Company

Location	Seattle, Washington, United States
Coordinates	47.613988°N 122.315805°W / 47.613988; -122.315805 (EBC)
Opened	1995 (1995)
Key people	Dick Cantwell (Founder) Joe Bisacca, (CEO/Head of Operations, Founder) Dave Buhler (Founder) Carlos Brito (ABInbev Ceo)
Owned by	Anheuser-Busch InBev
Subsidiaries	2 Brewpubs
Website	www.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.^[1] 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.^[2]

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.^[3] The company's largest location, Elysian Fields, was opened in 2006 near CenturyLink Field, which is often busy on game days.^[4]

In 2011, Elysian expanded its operations with a 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m²) production-only facility in the Georgetown neighborhood.^[5][6]

Anheuser-Busch InBev acquired Elysian Brewing in early 2015.

In November 2024, Elysian began closing its Seattle Georgetown facility. The two brewpubs, including the original Capitol Hill location, remain open.^[7][8]

Beers

Beer	% ABV	IBU	Description
Avatar Jasmine IPA	6.3	45	IPA[9]
Dragonstooth Stout	8.0	60	Stout[9]
Dayglow IPA	7.4	65	India Pale Ale[9]
Loser Pale Ale	7.0	57	Pale ale[9]
Men's Room Red	5.6	33	Amber ale[9]
Perseus Porter	5.4	47	Porter[9]
Space Dust	8.2	73	IPA[9]
The Immortal IPA	6.3	54	IPA with new world hops[9]
Vahalla Red IPA	7.5	70
Wise ESB	5.9	60	Extra Special Bitter, Elysian's first brew[9]
Zephyrus Pilsner	7.5	80	Pilsner-style lager[9]

Seasonal

Seasonal beers include:

Beer	% ABV	IBU	Availability	Description
Split Shot	6.0	28	Spring
Bifrost Winter Ale	8.3	58	Winter
Punkuccino Coffee Pumpkin Ale	6.0	20	Fall	Pumpkin beer[9]
Dark O' The Moon	7.5	20	Fall	Pumpkin beer[9]
Great Pumpkin Ale	8.1	20	Fall	Pumpkin beer[9]
Night Owl Pumpkin Ale	6.7	18	Fall	Pumpkin beer[9]
Superfuzz Blood Orange	6.4	45	Summer	Ale brewed with blood orange[9]
Dank Dust	8.2	62	Spring (420)	"Weed aroma" India Pale Ale, i.e. smells like "dank" marijuana[10][11]

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.^[12]

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.^[13] The brewery's beers earned it the Large Brewpub of the Year award at the Great American Beer Festival in 1999, 2003, and 2004.^[14]

Elysian had a collaborative partnership with the New Belgium Brewing Company of Ft. Collins, Colorado.^[15]

The brewery also partners with The Mens Room [sic] (a program on the Seattle rock music radio station KISW) to produce Mens Room Original Ale;^[16] previous offerings include Mens Room Red and Mens Room Gold. ^[17]