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, Serious Madness Black Ale,[4] Double Dread Imperial Red, and John Barleycorn Barleywine.[5]
The company attempts to reuse all of its equipment and materials and has a reported waste reduction rate of 98 percent. 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.[6] For their efforts in waste reduction the company won 7 WRAP awards presented by the California Integrated Waste Management Board.