Mad River Steelhead Extra Stout

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

Bottle: A great almost black pour with a pretty thin light brown head. Scents of Chocolate and burnt coffee. Taste is the same as scent. A great stout. BOM 2.

Pours completely opaque with hardly any head. So many flavors and variations of coffee and dark chocolate but, surprisingly, not very bitter. Flavor lingers for a long time.

12oz bottle into an English pint. Pours black with a nice light leather-colored head. The aroma is sweet and sour American stout with a touch of warm milk and a sprinkle of coffee and chocolate. The flavor is boldly roasty like chewing on black malt and is mixed with sweetness and a nice milk-chocolate coffee finish as you swallow and exhale. The mouthfeel is creamy but not quite thick with a good amount of carbonation to keep it even. I really liked this stout!

2009 Bottle - Thanks beerbill! - Aroma is cocoa, vanilla and coffee, malt heavy and terrific...flavour is similar, dark roast coffee, vanilla creme and a bitter chocolate finish...this is another terrific sleeper from Mad River...

Dark pour with a creamy head which does not last long. Wonderful balanced flavor. I can see with this little beauty if you like deserts it would be perfect with most. Taste as if all top notch malts and hops are used. It was a BOM club selection. Seems worth belonging to as they find all these great brews.

pours nearly opaque with lots of clumps of yeast and nearly black. it’s topped by a medium sized medium brown head that has some orange tints to it. intensely fruity aroma... strawberries and red table grapes mix with rich maltiness, chocolate, light molasses and smoky notes. the flavor is really quite rich... roasty grain, red grapes, fudgy chocolate, wood/oak/vanilla, some ash and a root beer/licorice/birch beer/sasparilla soda flavor that i can’t pinpoint. dry lightly spicy finish is bitter and ashy/charred. big ’ol coffee aftertaste. medium body with creamy soft carbonation when warm. (allow this to warm as the carbonation is prickly and unpleasant when cold!). i was not expecting this... i’m impressed!

Thick, opaque, black body that is almost completely void of even the darkest brown highlights. This sucker is BLACK. A small, coffee colored head settles pretty quickly to a thin film with a prominent, bubbly edge. The aroma is rich, roasty, and creamy. Melted dark chocolate malts meld with freshly ground coffee beans, molasses, cream, and a touch of piney hops. The flavor is intensely roasty up front, with bakers chocolate and coffee assaulting the tongue. Cream smoothes things out considerably at the mid-point, finishing slightly dry and hoppy. Medium-full bodied and incredibly smooth and very well balanced. This is a damn good beer.

Bottle from Beer Club: Poured a deep dark brown, almost black with not much head. The aroma was roasted malts, some caramel. The flavor was rich and smooth, espresso and dark chocolate. Overall, a really good Stout.