Mad River Steelhead Extra Stout

Poured a deep black oily shade with a partly bubbling beige-gray head. Dense and a little watery though thick as an ’extra" should be. Prevalent and robust earthy and coffee nose with typical chocolate characteristics. Fabulous breakfast beverage meal and likely favorable of chocolate or vanilla pairings.

12oz bottle. Pours pitch black with a small, bubbly brown head. Looks impressive. Smell is VERY sweet with some malty and chocoalte notes too. Looks and smells like an Imperial so far. The taste is nowhere near as strong as the appearance or aroma would lead you to believe. Very mild, a bit watery with a sweet chocolate finish. This is a decent stout but I was let down by the flavor.

An extremely smooth stout. Not overly hopped, but good coffee, chickory, chocolate, roast cashews. Light tartness, muted fruitiness, slight olivine notes. Not very sweet. Choclolate, roast, olive aroma. Absolutely opaque black in a small wine glass. Medium body, maybe tipping over to medium heavy, maybe not. An incredibly good brew, well worth shipping to Florida from Californie. If there were a flaw to point out, it’s that the finish gets a wee bit tart and clingy. Good stuff.

Tallahassee, Fl. - Market Sqaure Liquors - 12 oz bottle. Thick, viscous, black as tar pour with a thin mocha colored head. Nice, rich cappucino like aroma with hints of dark chocolate. Dark, rich bitter baker’s chocolate is prevalant in the flavor with some day old black coffee to balance it out. Very earthy with a good roasty undertone. Thick, creamy mouthfeel with good lacticity. Excellent stout - best I have had in a while.

Now this is a quality stout. Pours thick, dark, black. Huge amounts of roasted malt in the aroma and flavor. Still plenty of hops in the background to keep everything in check. Well done.

Bottle from BleacherBum - Thanks! Pours an opaque black with a thin and fading tan head. Vanilla, coffee, chocolate smoky notes in the aroma. Creamy medium body with moderate carbonation. More coffee and chocolate with a bit of caramel sweetness in the taste. Dry espresso and burnt toast finish with a slight contribution from the hops. A nice tasty stout. Their marketing guys say "Extra Stout can convert even lite beer drinkers to Stout lovers." Yeah, right. On what planet?

Looks very nice in the pour. Rich thick black, with a quickly diminishing light brown head. Pretty nice combo of coffe, and light chocolate notes. Its got a fresh coffe grain taste, but definitely a lighter stout. Nice choclate characters, subtle but nice. Finish is pretty smooth, the coffe is not overpowering which was nice. After trying three brews from this brewery i have come to the conclusion that they are session beers. Nothing massive about them at all.

A lot of roasted coffee and chocolate in the aroma, rasted barley, burnt. Pours black with a tan head. Smooth vanilla, chocolate, coffee, alittle hop bitterness but mostly sweet malts and burnt coffee. Pretty good.