Men's Room Original Red
Elysian Brewing Company

Men's Room Original RedMen's Room Original Red
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From:
Elysian Brewing Company
 
Washington, United States
Style:
American Amber / Red Ale
ABV:
5.6%
Score:
81
Avg:
3.55 | pDev: 14.08%
Reviews:
89
Ratings:
382
Status:
Active
Rated:
Mar 31, 2020
Added:
Jun 16, 2010
Wants:
  19
Gots:
  96
Because we think it's yummy!

Style: Original red

Tasting notes: Amber in color with a light hop aroma and toasty malt finish.

A portion of the net proceeds from every Mens Room Original Red sold goes to helping support the families of our military vets through the VA Puget Sound Fisher House and JBLM Fisher Houses.

The Mens Room Original Red is brewed for The Mens Room Radio Show on 99.9 KISW The Rock of Seattle.

Malts: Pale, Munich, C-77, CaraRed and CaraHell.
Hops: Bittered with Chinook and finished with Cascade.
Body: Medium
IBU: 51
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.86/5  rDev +8.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
20oz pint at the Underground's mini-tap takeover for these (mostly) new Elysian brews in Alberta.

This beer appears a slightly hazy, glassy medium copper amber hue, with two slender fingers of puffy, bulbous, and eventually chunky, dirty white ice floe head, which leaves a near solid wall of specked snow rime lace around the glass as things seep southwards.

It smells of grainy, and mildly biscuity caramel malt, a touch of sour breadiness, middling fleshy orange and pithy white grapefruit, and earthy, leafy hops. The taste is semi-sweet bready pale and caramel malt, a bit of steady baker's yeast, simple syrup, subtle muddled citrus, and somewhat zingy leafy, grassy hops.

The bubbles are decently involved and in for the long haul, the body an adequate medium weight, and pretty smooth, with even a coy hint of creaminess. It finishes off-dry, the bready caramel malt, and fleshy anonymous fruit holding up that particular flag, while little else in the realm seems up to playing foil at this point.

A decently quaffable amber ale, which is sort of like saying an easy-driving Volkswagen - it may be a given, but it's still nice to see it in the flesh. Nothing overtly heady, or all that memorable, but pleasant enough for an early Friday evening kickoff.
Oct 26, 2013
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.5 by BEER88 from North Carolina

Mar 31, 2020
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Rated by OompaMentor from Georgia

3.75/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
4/30/2019 - Rich amber color. Well balanced
Feb 05, 2020
 
Rated: 4 by bv51 from Washington

Oct 18, 2019
 
Rated: 3.75 by Eyedoc27 from Illinois

Jul 21, 2019
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Rated by pjhdaas from Netherlands

4.38/5  rDev +23.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25
Great tasting red ale with a perfect after taste.
Jun 01, 2019
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Reviewed by Oh_Dark_Star from Washington

1.54/5  rDev -56.6%
look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.25
For the unsophisticated beer drinker in my opinion. It will beat some bud and other mass produced lagers, but that is as far as I’ll take it. I still find folks who like this and never understood. It has hops but it’s thin and dull. My last was a drain pour.
May 04, 2019
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Reviewed by ChainGangGuy from Georgia

3.73/5  rDev +5.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
Appearance: Served up a hazed, orange-golden body with an inch of craggy-looking, near white foam.

Smell: Toast, toasted grains with a dusting of table sugar and a slight caramel edge to it. Minimal hop presence on the aroma, slight touches of citrus, herb.

Taste: A toasty, caramel-hinting maltiness with a moderate degree of sweetness. Like the nose, hop character is slight but sufficient to give you some background citrus and a light, cleansing bitterness. Finishes bittersweet with lingering hints of blonde caramel and citrus.

Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation.

Overall: It's a well-balanced, easy-going, nicely drinkable beer.
Feb 17, 2019
 
Rated: 3.91 by TheBeerMaster1 from New York

Feb 16, 2019
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Reviewed by Tone from Missouri

3.95/5  rDev +11.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4
Pours a cloudy copper color. 3/4 inch head of an off-white color. Great retention and slight lacing. Smells of sweet malt, citrus hops, slight caramel malt, hint of tea, and a hint of spicy hops. Fits the style of an American Amber / Red Ale. Mouth feel is smooth and clean, with an average carbonation level. Tastes of sweet malt, citrus hops, slight caramel malt, hint of tea, and a hint of spicy hops. Overall, good blend, low bitterness, and good body, but simplistic.
Oct 01, 2018
 
Rated: 3.04 by Bach_And_Beer97 from Washington

Aug 17, 2018
 
Rated: 3.71 by takusan1000 from Washington

Aug 05, 2018
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Reviewed by Radome from Florida

3.26/5  rDev -8.2%
look: 3 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Poured from a bomber bottle bought in Seattle.

L - Copper color with no particular red highlights. A bit hazy. Off-white head is underwhelming and quickly fades to a few wisps of ultra-fine bubbles on the surface. A small amount of lacing.

S - Biscuity malt with a small hint of brown sugar. This is balanced by blended earthy and piney hops. Very clean fermentation character with no yeast or alcohol notes.

T - Flavors hit me more like a pale ale than a red ale. Emphasis is on the hops (earthy, piney and herbal, in that order of intensity) flavor and bitterness first, with malt as only a low, bready contributor. Finish is dry and bitter.

F - Thin body with moderate, creamy carbonation. Hops bitterness is medium to high, again reminding me of a US pale ale. Very low alcohol presence.

O - I'm not sure what the brewers were going for here. It is a pleasant beer that will appeal to hopheads, but to call it a red ale or American amber seems misleading. Red IPA might make more sense as a category.
Jul 02, 2018
 
Rated: 3.54 by Mister_Faucher from Washington

Jun 23, 2018
 
Rated: 3.59 by Kdouble from Tennessee

Jun 17, 2018
 
Rated: 3.28 by hophugger from Virginia

Jun 08, 2018
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Rated by a_burke24 from Washington

2.33/5  rDev -34.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Men's room tastes like it came from the men's room.. gag, aweful taste
Mar 25, 2018
 
Rated: 3 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Dec 30, 2017
 
Rated: 3.64 by faatcase from Virginia

Nov 24, 2017
 
Rated: 3.87 by Shortbox81 from Washington

Aug 30, 2017
Men's Room Original Red from Elysian Brewing Company
Beer rating: 81 out of 100 with 382 ratings