Mad River Brewing IPA

IPA

 

Mad River Brewing in Blue Lake, California, United States 🇺🇸

  IPA Regular
Score
6.79
ABV: 7.0% IBU: 70 Ticks: 38
Mad River India Pale Ale is a light copper ale that features a fresh hop floral character and a clean crisp finish.
 

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7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Imported from my RateBeer account as Mad River IPA (by Mad River Brewery):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 3/5, Taste: 7/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 18/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5

17/09/2011 12 Fl. Oz. bottle @ Ginger Man NYC (2011-449)

Cloudy dark orange to amber coloured beer, leight beige sediment floating around. Light beige aery and unstable head, non adhesive. Aroma: typical pineapple, passion fruits and some peaches, sweet fruity, some sweet malts. MF: little carbon, medium body. Taste: fruity, pretty sweet start, citrus fruits, soft bitter hops, peaches, little yeast (maybe the age). Aftertaste: bitter and dry but still fruity ending. Very nice IPA.

Tried from Bottle on 17 Sep 2011 at 09:00


6.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

12 oz bottle into tulip. Pours a hazy orange with sediment floating around; has a medium light-beige head with decent retention. Aromas are faint; smells a bit like sticky buns. Taste is bittersweet. No hallmark IPA flavors. Carbonation is pretty high for this style, body is medium-full. Good if not great.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Jun 2011 at 19:45


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Pours orange amber. Almost no head. Small white. Nose of bread, caramel and a sprinkling of hops. Taste is the same with some orange peel. Lots of bread and caramel. Medium body.

Tried from Bottle on 15 Jun 2011 at 22:24


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

On tap at Stone. Pours with a hazy orange body with a white head. Aromas of dryer sheets, orange, grainy, fruity, hoppy with some esters. Flavors are bitter, orange, tangerine and caramel. Lively bubbles, medium dry. Assertively bitter finish.

Tried from Draft on 20 Mar 2011 at 14:14


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a hazy orange-amber color with a small beige had that fades quickly and left some lacing. The aroma was sour and tangy with moderate pine and grapefruit and a touch of caramel. The flavor was sweetish and tangy with moderate caramel, pine and grapefruit and light fruity cocktail and caramel. The finish was long, sweet and fruity. Smooth despite all the hops and fairly full bodied. So nicely quaffable it outpaces the sum of it’s parts. Very nice.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Feb 2011 at 16:08


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

I picked this up at West Lakeview Liquors in Chicago, IL; enjoyed after a long Friday. Appearance is a very cloudy gold with a frothy head that sticks to the sides of the glass. Aroma mostly of stinky hops, slightly floral, but mostly like a men’s gym locker room after a football game. I can’t say that it’s a bad aroma, I don’t like to the aroma of a men’s locker room (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) but it’s the type of hops aroma that I’ve grown akin to. Taste of hops and a hint of caramel, not bad at all. However, this 6 pack was $14 and I don’t think it was quite worth it.

Tried from Can on 10 Dec 2010 at 15:37


7.5
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

12oz bottle-pours a rich offwhite head with amber color. Aroma is mild pine/floral/some citrus hops then medium malt in background. Taste is medim malt-caramel/brown sugar, pine/floral/some citrus hops. Medium body. Thanks jwc215 for sharing this.

Tried from Bottle on 23 Dec 2008 at 20:15


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Draught at R.F.D., Washington DC
Hazy golden color. It’s a pleasant American Pale Ale showing some malt flavor and reasonably good hops. Pleasant.

Tried from Can on 18 Oct 2008 at 03:31


7.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

Pours amber/orange, nice off-white head. Aroma, hoppy, caramel and sugary. Taste, sweet hops, grainy, some nice light chocolat malts. Dry finish, floraland piney hops. Very enjoyable IPA.

Tried on 12 Oct 2008 at 13:42


7.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Pour is a cloudy orange with a almost nothing white head. Aroma is a very nice deep pine hop. Flavor is more over the top pine hops with some citrus showing up at the end. A very nice west coast hopped out the wazoo IPA.

Tried on 03 Oct 2008 at 23:13