Mad River Steelhead Extra Stout

Brewed by Mad River Brewery
Style: Stout
Blue Lake, California USA

Beer of the Month Club Selection: Poured from a chilled bottled into a pint glass. Pour produced an opaque dark-brown ebony body with a nearly diminishing light brown head of foam. Aroma is an inviting dark roasted malt with the familiar smells of coffee or chocolate. Mildly sweet, with a slight bitterness at the end, this stout is full-bodied without being overbearing. I liked the roast on this stout as well. Sometimes a stout can go overboard on the roasting, and it lands up tasting like burnt coffee. This Steelhead has it right, however, and I will look for this again. A fine selection from my BOMC.

bottle. pours a medium black with a bit of tan head. mild sweet roasted malts in the aroma... very nutty and creamy over the palate. the bitterness balances this one out quite well ... start to finish. quite a good stout.... I’d buy it again.

Bottle. Pours with a black color and a medium sized head. Aromas of malts, coffee and chocolate, flavors of coffee wih some hoppiness mixed in. Medium bodied, not too chewy, a solid stout

Pour is a super dark black with a small tan head. Aroma is a very nice dark chocolate and roasted malt with some coffee in there. Flavor is about the same with the coffee coming over the top with some more chocolate and nuts. As close to an Impy stout as you can get w/o calling it so. I guess the alcohol is to low to call it that.

12oz Bottle - Gravity Beer Market - Olympia, WA
Aroma – Big stout aroma tons of chocolate and coffee aroma.
Appearance – Black in color, Nice small head and clear if you can see through black.
Flavor – A very good stout lots of flavors. Chocolate and coffee flavors where very strong on this beer.
Palate – Great Mouthfeel, Crisp texture with a nice dry finish.
Overall – A very nice Stout with tons of flavor. This was not for the everyday beer drinker this was a serious beer with tons of flavor and it gave flavor at every sip.

Pours black, with a brown head. Aroma is chocolate, roasted malt, and coffee. Flavor is chocolate, roasted malt, and smoke. A nice one for sure.

coffee all the way. pours black as night with a brown head. nutty, roasty and a little bit of fig.

Zealous decanting creates only a quickly-receding skin of foam atop the opaque ebony liquid; lacing is nonexistent. I start to inhale deeply of the decadent fudgy aroma, but nearly gag from the background taint of sharp cheddar and stinky feet. Upfront, the flavor is superSWEET and roasty, as if I were drinking unfermented wort; sour milk and maraschino/strawberry tastes ensue. Carbonation: nil. A latent vegetal quality reminiscent of overcooked brussel sprouts proves as nettlesome as no-see-’ums. Ditto the thick, sugary mouthfeel. A coffee and sour-fruity aftertaste is perhaps the beer’s least annoying quality. Maybe a decent sweet stout at the core, but countless niggling defects ruined it for me. Madness indeed.