Mad River Steelhead Scotch Porter

2 bouteilles de 12 oz partagées lors d’une dégustation Ratebeer Montréal chez Altair. Arôme: Légère odeur de chocolat et de caramel. Apparence: La couleur est noire. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût de torréfaction avec une pointe de chocolat et de caramel. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement onctueuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de caramel brûlé en arrière goût. (Rating #2698)

12oz bottle. Pours dark brown with a medium tan head. Grainy malt nose with chocolate and a hint of alcohol. Flavor is Roasty chocolate, grainy malt and a bitter finish.

In the bottle at the 2009 Crescent Moon Summer Beer Festival. Pours dark reddish brown with visible chunks floating about. Thin beige head. Mild chocolate aroma. Smooth chocolate flavor. Quite sweet. This is a mellow beer with a good palate, but is just a touch on the watery side.

Thanks Hayduke! Pour is very porter like with a small tan head. Aroma is roasted nut with smoky peat. That smoky peat translates to the flavor along with wet grass and anise. The peat recedes at the finish and smoke builds as does carbonation.

Three for three so far from Mad river! Very drinkable and smooth...just a tad more carbonation than I like.

bottle thanks to my brother. deep chocolate brown with a cream head. nose is peat, smoke, caramel and slight roastiness. very nice on the palate with an overly sweet flavor of caramel along with peat and a smokey finish.

nearly black color, nice quickly disappearing tan head, lacy. nose of sweet malt, roasty malt,, choclate. flavor is roasty malty, dark chocolate, creamy caramel, smoke. fiull bodied, creamy mouthfeel, roasty, smokey finish. a fairly fun porter that coats the mouth enjoyably and lingers longly. i no longer understand the words coming from my mouth. bottle stolen from cornfield’s cellar.

12 ounce bottle from somewhere in Richmond, VA. Pours a hazy very dark bronzeish brown color with a tiny floating particles. Thin head with average head retention and lacing. Aroma of caramel, light roast, coffee and chocolate. Taste is light roast, caramel, faint chocolate and a nutty smokiness. Medium bodied. Good beer.