Mad River Brewing Company is a brewery established in 1989 and located in Blue Lake, California, known for its green production processes.
Mad River Brewing Company is a brewery established in 1989 and located in Blue Lake, California, known for its green production processes.
The brewery was established 1989 by brewmaster Bob Smith. [1] [2] Its Steelhead Extra Pale Ale was listed by the Oakland Tribune as one of ten "quintessential Northern California beers". [3] Other beers produced by Mad River have included Steelhead Stout, [4] Serious Madness Black Ale, [5] Double Dread Imperial Red, [6] and John Barleycorn Barleywine. [7]
The company attempts to reuse all of its equipment and materials and has a reported waste reduction rate of 98 percent. [8] [9] Much of the organic waste, ten tons of spent barley malt and yeast a year, are fed to local livestock or used as composting material. [9] [10] For their efforts in waste reduction the company won 7 WRAP awards presented by the California Integrated Waste Management Board. [9]
Barley wine is a strong ale from 6–12% alcohol by volume.
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Steelhead is the best American-style stout we've had this year.
Mad River's Double Dread ran a very close second to Lagunitas Red in our flight of reds.
The Mad River Brewing Company received an award from its home town of Blue Lake, California, for reducing its solid wastes by a whopping 97 percent.
Almost as famous for reducing its waste as for making great beer, Mad River Brewing Company of Blue Lake, California is renowned for its Steelhead and Jamaica ales as well as its ten Waste Reduction Awareness Program (WRAP) awards from the state's Integrated Waste Management Board. The microbrewery currently recycles or reuses 98 percent of its residuals with a goal of generating zero waste.
