Steelhead Extra Pale Ale
Mad River Brewing in Blue Lake, California, United States 🇺🇸
Golden / Blonde Ale Regular|
Score
6.15
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Steelhead Extra Pale Ale is a bright golden hued ale of medium body with a subtle floral hop character and very mild bitterness.
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5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Thanks jwc215 for picking this out. 12oz bottle-pours a foamy off white head and hazy yellow color with tiny floaties and effervescence. Aroma is mild musty fruit-mango/orange, light malt. Taste is slightly sweet light/medium malt, mild musty fruit-mango/orange, faint earthy/floral hops. Medium body. OK beer but may be stale as this doesn’t remind me of a PA. OK RB categorizes as a blond/golden, so with this in mind. 2.8
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Jan 2009
at 21:25
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ the brewery taproom. Pours a clear golden color with a small white head. Has a sweetish malty and bready aroma with some hoppy hints. Sweetish malty bready floral hoppy flavor. Has a sweetish malty and slightly hoppy finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 02 Jan 2009
at 11:01
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle at Brickskeller, Washington DC
Hazy blond color, big head. The aroma shows some vegetables (carrots...), light vanilla; strange. Normal Ale, with a correct balance of malt and hops; the best quality is its smoothness. Not bad, but quite simple.
Hazy blond color, big head. The aroma shows some vegetables (carrots...), light vanilla; strange. Normal Ale, with a correct balance of malt and hops; the best quality is its smoothness. Not bad, but quite simple.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Oct 2008
at 03:29
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle. Pours an orange/gold with a bit of head that leaves quickly. Aromas are very weak and I couldn’t tell you what was there. Flavor is pretty weak, too. Honey flavored malt sweetness with a little bit of a hops citrus, but things are pretty weak. I’m wondering if this bottle had been sitting around for a while, given some of the other reviews.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Aug 2008
at 22:17
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12oz bottle pours mildly hazy gold with weak white head. The mild aroma is malty and has faint biscuit malt and little else. The taste is very much the same starting with a sweet maltiness, lightly roasted malts and a note of biscuit. Midway and to the finish the sweet malts are joined by aged blunted citrus hops creating a mild sweet orange juice malt tea flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 May 2008
at 21:25
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5
Pours a hazy orangish yellow with off white head. Aromas of malt and citrus. Slightly sweet flavor that starts malty and finishes a little hoppy. Medium body with average carbonation. Below average APA.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2008
at 11:36
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pale gold pour with short, white head that dissipates. Only slightly hazy body, almost lager-like in appearance. Unfiltered? Sweet aroma of honey and fruit with slight note of grassy hops. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter. The ale finishes sweet and slightly sticky. Medium body with an almost syrupy texture. Lively carbonation. This is way too sweet and way too light on bittering hops to be an APA. A lightweight for sure.
Tried
on 27 Feb 2008
at 19:48
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle. A decent APA, not great but decent. I seem to recall it pouring a amber/golden color. Aroma is floral hops with malts. Finishes with a slight bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2008
at 02:03
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle. Sweet orange juice and mild pine hops aroma. Hazy orange-yellow color with small white head. Honey and light orange flavor with a mild pine hops finish. A nice APA on the sweet side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Nov 2007
at 17:48
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Degarth. Slightly hazy, deep golden with a nice, off-white head. Somehat fat aroma of hops - citrusy nose. Fairly light in body, lightly sweet malt base with fresh, fruity acents with peach in particular sticking out. Dry finish without much bitterness. Nice and very drinkable. 241007
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Oct 2007
at 17:09