Mad River Steelhead Extra Stout

Bottle. Pours a deep black with a 2 finger tan head and spotty lacing. Nose is chocolate, roasted malt and mild coffee. Taste is ash, cocoa, and roasted coffee beans with a slight hop bitter finish. Medium creamy mouth feel. Pleasantly surprised with this one. Decent stout.

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!

Bottle. Black pour with a tan head. Malty roasted chocalate nose. The taste is close to the same with a bit of tartness. Smooth, tasty.

Very dark with nice tan head. Taste strong of coffee and chocolate. Very smooth. A good beer to drink slowly, despite it’s taste making you want to down it..

Pours an inky black with a two finger creamy mocha tan head. The nose was a bit roasty, chocolaty, some coffee, sweet, light tobacco, rich. The flavor was choclaty, some bitter coffee, light alcohol, sweet, moderate bitterness. Very full and smooth mouthfeel. Very very tasty stout.