Salute The Sun
Elysian Brewing Company

Has a medium lime aroma, with a dank lime taste. Not a lite beer, but not a heavy one either. Easy drinking beer with a less than normal lime taste. Hop taste is pleasant, not too strong with a citrus taste to balance the lime flavor. Rated 6-1-2019

 

-amber bottle pour with a 1 cm foam cap and minimal aroma.
The flavor is citrus forward with the dried black lime in front of tangerine juice.
The brew is light-bodied. This is unique and tasty.

Better than I thought. If you work all night, have one and fall asleep!

12oz bottle served in a nonic glass. Experience by 06/26/20.

Look- Hazy golden amber color. Small bright white head that recedes quickly to a light ring of foam, light lacing. Light carbonation streams visible.

Smell- Citrus (strong lime zest and other light citra based citrus aromas), some caramel malt, faint pine and black tea, other grassy/floral notes.

Taste- Similar to the aroma. Big lime zest, other citrus notes, some sweet malt.

Feel- Medium/light bodied, somewhat crisp and dry with a lightly bitter finish. Medium carbonation on the tongue.

O- Rather mundane and unspectacular, but nice on a hot summer day.

 

From a twelve ounce brown bottle, this brew is a very thick, hazy, milky orange color. The head is whit and lasting. Modest aroma...some fruit. The taste is dryish with a bit of fruit. Just okay.

 

As the backlog falls away, I am surprised (shocked!) to find bottles still in the mix. More often than not, they were fill-ins in a mix-a-six where I just grabbed new bottles to fill the carrier with no real affinity for their serving style. This was one of those.

From the Bottle: "Salute The Sun Pale Ale with Black Limes"; "This pale ale is conditioned on sun-dried black limes and vibrates with a ridiculous amount of Citra hops. Slightly tart, highly citrusy, super chill."

I Pop!ped the cap & started a slow, gentle C-Line pour into the awaiting glass. I seemed to have been a tad too gentle as I got only a modicum of head. I then employed a vigorous in-glass swirl that raised nearly two fingers of fizzy, foamy, rocky, bone-white head with limited retention, quickly falling away to wisps. Color was a solid Amber (SRM = > 7, < 9) with NE-quality clarity. Nose had an easily-identifiable lime citrusiness. Mmm. Mouthfeel was medium. The taste was highly citrusy and unquestionably lime, but it did not really align with the style, per se. Any APA is going to have SNPA as it guide-on bearer & this was nowhere close. It was a very pleasant drink and for those who may be eschewing Corona with lime due to the Coronavirus, this could fill your bill. Finish was citrusy, more so than hoppy, with a semi-dryness that I still found a bit lacking. YMMV.

Funky smell and odd after taste.

 

 

BOTTLE: $1.59 USD plus tax for a 12 fl oz brown glass crown capped bottle at Martin Wine Cellar in New Orleans, LA.

"Pale Ale." 5.2% ABV. "Conditioned on sun-dried black limes." Brewed with Citra hops.

APPEARANCE: Copper-orange body. Modest white head (~2cm in height, lasts ~3 minutes).

AROMA: Has a lovely prominent lime aroma, though it'd be much more welcome in a saison methinks. Citrusy and floral hops are also present, but don't necessarily harmonize with the lime. Pale malts keep any hop bitterness checked.

TASTE & TEXTURE: Has a pungent undertone of lime and citrus, but the lime doesn't amplify the Citra hop citrus flavours and the two ingredients seem to coexist instead of synergizing. Pale malts lend it its base. Floral hop aromatics.

Has a tingling smooth texture. Wet and somewhat refreshing despite being medium-bodied. Well-carbonated. Not oily.

Balanced but a bit simplistic. The lime works well but feels like a gimmick; I'd like to see them use the same lime technique/ingredient in a Belgian style saison or rustic lager.

OVERALL: Drinks easy and tastes nice, but it isn't a memorable pale ale given the oversaturation of the style in the contemporary American market. I'd sooner buy Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, which is probably available damn near everywhere this is. Nevermind Half Acre's Daisy Cutter, 3 Floyds' Zombie Dust, Toppling Goliath's Pseudo Sue, et al. in the right regional markets. I'd probably bring a sixer to a barbecue if I couldn't find anything more interesting at a Wal-Mart or something, but it's not a great beer.

High C+ (3.25) / ABOVE AVERAGE

 

Salute the sun pours a chunky bronze color, with a long lasting, small fizzy head. Smells like pee. Flavor is an earthy malty pale flavor, with generous hints of lime to bring it out. A bit light. Overall, I really like the mellow lime flavors, it helps the earthy base and very very bad aroma, try to drink from the bottle.

Elysian Brewing Co. "Salute The Sun"
12 fl. oz. brown glass bottle, "EXPERIENCE BY 08/04/19
$2 @ Wegmans Cherry Hill Wine, Liquor & Beer, Cherry Hill, NJ

Notes via stream of consciousness: What I find interesting here is the use of sun-dried black limes. I've never heard of such a thing! Great label design as well. So, OK, let's see what it looks like: hazy deep gold body beneath a standard sized head of slightly off-white foam. The aroma is citrusy, and resinous like hops, but I'm not really finding lime, and I can't determine where the citrus is really coming from. There is an odd earthy note, however, that I'm guessing is exclusively from the limes. On to the flavor... well that's certainly citrusy! There's a little bit of acidity to it. It's a touch spicy as well, and combined with a median bitterness it finishes dry. The malt is basic, just lightly biscuity, and supports the citrus well. Again, I'm not really getting "lime", but I can clearly tell where the dried black limes are as opposed to what might be citrusy hops. In the mouth it's medium bodied and crisp like any other APA. So what to say? It's an enjoyable APA that has a twist to it, and while I enjoy that I'm not sure it's inspiring enough to get me to seek it out over whatever else is available on the over-crowded shelves these days. Still, it's worth trying just to see what the dried black limes do.
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Somewhat aggressive pour yields about a finger of frothy white head. Brew itself is a nice golden color with a soft haze. Lots of carbonation and some tiny particulates floating around. Looks pretty good.

Smells pretty nice too. Citra hops and you really get the limes if you swirl it around a bit.

Big citrus burst upfront on the tongue. Lime pith and tangerines; finishing with a mildly tart grapefruitiness. That may not be a real word. Whatever. Sue me, fuckface.

Light mouthfeel, but that's not such a bad thing as this seems to be aiming for a warm weather refresher type thing and hits the spot just fine.

Overall, not bad at all, even if the bottle says enjoy by 8/4/19. I got a real knack for grabbing out-of-date pale ales in mixed sixers. Will be on the lookout for a fresher sample next year.

this one was a reach for me, everyone at the bar passing it around really hated it, but i wouldnt go that far, it just seems kind of forced, a weird style hybrid between an american pale and a berliner or something, seems like some lactic tang to me in here, not just sour from the limes. there is a lot of flavor in this, but its not as good on the palate as it sounds in my head, the limes have an almost composting aspect to them, not fresh and bright like i want lime to be, its not like the flavor is any more concentrated, im not sure this is better with black limes than it would be with regular ones. the hops are nice, more aromatic than flavorful though, and even though there is some citrus zest bitterness here, the hops kind of stop like half way through the flavor for me. its minimal on the grain and yeast sides, so its really the citra and the lime, which should work better than it seems to, maybe freshness is an issue, i dont know, but the apparent cohesiveness of these ingredients is not totally realized in the liquid. the little bit of acidity at the end kind of throws me off too. i didnt hate it like the rest of our group, and i appreciate a somewhat risky beer from these guys i guess, but this didnt really turn me on the way i wanted it to. this should be lighter and brighter for the summer than it is. cool idea though...