Mad River Steelhead Extra Stout

12 oz. bottle from General66 - Thanks! Opaque black pour with a small brown head. Subtle chocolate, roasted barley, and nutty aroma and flavor. Lightly dry and bitter finish. Medium mouthfeel. Very tasty and easy to drink stout!

Bottle from Beerlando. Pours a black color and has a slight hop aroma. Has a thin mouthfeel for a stout and leads to a smooth roasty taste with a vanilla aftertaste. Has little complexity and is just an ok brew.

Thanks After4ever/Tom for this one! It’s pitch black with a light brown, creamy head. The aroma has notes of roasted malt, licorice and some coffee. The mouthfeel is semi-oily. The flavour has notes of roasted malt, licorice, a light bitterness and a light sweetness and hints of chocolate. It’s not aggressivly powerfull, but it has a full body, it’s smooth, harmonic and nice!

I really liked this one. My GF bought it on a whim, and for some reason I think I got this and Steel Reserve mixed up, and didn’t expect to like this much at all. But boy was I wrong! This is really a great find, one that just sits on my liquor store shelf without much attention. Pours black and even, looks great. Smells like dark malt and coffee. Flavor is dark and rich. Lots of roasted malt, crystal sugars, slight notes of coffee, chocolate, and hops. At 6% and at a cheap price, this is really a great session Stout! I will be having this one again.

Pours a nearly opaque garnet with a tall, deep mocha head. Aroma of sweet chocolate and roasted malts. Flavor is bittersweet with a touch of sourness; there are some coffee and chocolate notes along with faint hops. Mouthfeel is on the thin side. Finishes sweet but rather bland. Good stout but nothing to be ecstatic about.

Bottle. Aroma has big, big burnt roast notes, slightly ashy, with medium notes of chocolate and a smidgen of lactose. Pitch pour with a dark brown had. Attack is crisp with medium body, dry and refreshing, with a dry, slightly ashy aftertaste. Robust taste has same strong roasted malt and burnt notes, dark chocolate with a slight mocha/milky quality, medium bitterness, and subtle coffee bean acidity. Quite tasty!

Bottle pours an inky-black with small light brown head. Nose is roasted coffee, burnt chocolate. A bit of vanilla comes through in the taste. Decent anytime stout, but nothing to really rave about.

Pours a thick black liquid with a very dark brown head. Aroma is strong and of sweet burnt coffee, the taste is a little weaker version of the same. Lighter than I expected from the pour, rather drinkable. Very good beer.