Mad River Steelhead Scotch Porter

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

Not bad! Please let this one warm up. My first taste was very watery so I set it aside. It turned out to have loads of nice smoky malt characteristics. This beer has some nice complexity! Nothing out of the ordinary, simply well done. It has a nice thick tan head which lasts and lasts and a huge earthy woody aroma as well. Nicely flavoured.

A great-smelling Porter with hints of molasses coffe, an coco. Pours to a medium head and a dark, dark brown color. Taste is big with coffee and chocolate notes. A slight minerally taste, though. Overall a very good beer; I’d buy it again.

12 oz bottle received in a trade from Sregnar35. Thanks Bill! - Pours very dark brown with a medium tan head. Aroma is mostly chocolate with a touch of toffee and a hint of smoke. Flavor is roasted malts, some toffee, chocolate and a peat flavor. Nice and creamy on the palate but a shade overcarbonated I think. Quite smoky and robust. A delicious porter!

This is a good porter, nice roasted bitterness. But the Steelhead extra stout is better. This one needed some extra kick.

poured black. as it warmed the nose became more prominant with dark chocolate and butterscotch characters and sweet roasted malts. flavor didnt live up the the aroma. chocolate and roasted malt flavors. slightly sweet and smokey but lacking in overall depth. decent.

Pours a near-black dark brown with a creamy light brown head that does some fancy lacing. The aroma is nicely roasted barly and malts. Some herbal hopping is noticeable and, better yet, a sllight peat smoke aroma as well. The flavor is a smoked and roasted barley along with bitter chocolate, coffee, and a dash of hop bitterness. Nice and creamy, this has a lingering smokey, roasty finish. Good stuff.

Bottle. Pours opaque blackness with a tall frothy tan head. Nose is hoppy and chocolaty with big coffee notes. Dark roasted malts, hops, coffee, dark bittersweet chocolate and light peatiness make up the whole fo the taste. Body is medium with some creaminess and a lingering bitterness. Finish is more coffee, dark chocolate, hops, light smokiness, roasted malts and smoldering wood notes. Nice!

Very dark brown with an off-white head. Aroma is of chocolate and coffee. Very creamy chocolatey flavor with just a hint of smoke and malts. Greath mouthfeel. Very enjoyable beer.