Mad River Steelhead Extra Pale Ale

Nice brisk carbonation underneath a dense rocky head. The palate is soft, dry, and lightly hopped. The finish is slightly spicy. This is the type of beer when it is fresh and the mood is right makes for a fine sipper that you don’t get tired of.

Pours a light yellow color with a white head, it looks a lot like a lager. Aroma is grass and honey. Taste is grain, grass, and sweet sugar. Easy to drink but really pretty boring and very little hop bitterness, taste, or aroma. Overall pretty disappointing for an Extra Pale Ale.

Pale copper or dark gold and clear. A moderate white head with average lacing. The aroma was thin citrus and sweet grassy hops. The flavor was sweet sugars and light citrus hops. Thin and relatively dry with a nice succinct finish. Went down easy. Nothing offensive here.

Draft at Tylers. Cloudy orange golden with a whispy white head. Nose of corn, honey, earthy hops. Pretty solid flavor- more hops, a little caramel and honey and a nice dry finish. Easy drinking and quite sessionable.

great flavor and very balanced. some sweetness but a nice west coast hop bitterness. golden amber in color with slight haziness.

From the bottle. Pours a light golden with medium carbonation. A light nose of aroma hops and earthy tones. Light carmel malted flavor.

A golden ale with a thick off white head. In aroma, light c-hops and chalky notes. In mouth, a crisp malt, with light quasi German hops, mineral notes, caramel malts. Light bodied. On tap at Bridgetender, Lake Tahoe, August 18, 2009.

bottle 355 ml
Appearance: clear golden ale with mid white top. Nothing special , fizzy look shown in short time.
Nose: aroma of honey , hops and golden malts. 5+.
Flavor/Palate : Mid light bodied. Slight nutty in character , mid carbonation , some thin malts around.