Paskenta Mad River Brewing Company
Blue Lake, California, USA · Est. 1989
Tally's Take
Why this matters
California Pass 187. Official current site identifies a Blue Lake brewing facility and taproom, Est. 1989. Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians acquired the brewery in March 2024 from the Yurok Tribe; current site describes it as women-led and tribally owned.
The Beer Library
Beers
Steelhead Extra Pale Ale
Year-RoundExtra Pale Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://madriverbrewing.com/our-beers/. Official current beer page; 26.2 IBU; first debuted in 1989 according to official 2025 news.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Canyon of Dreams Double IPA
Year-RoundDouble IPA
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://madriverbrewing.com/our-beers/. Official current beer page; 95.2 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Historic State Park IPA
Year-RoundIndia Pale Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://madriverbrewing.com/our-beers/. Official current beer page; 36.8 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Maize Goddess Indigenous Ale
Year-RoundLight Golden Cerveza / Indigenous Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://madriverbrewing.com/sales/. Official current sales page; uses regeneratively grown corn from Ioway Farms.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Jamaica Red Ale
Year-RoundRed Ale
California Pass 187. Aliases: https://madriverbrewing.com/sales/. Official current sales page; 45.3 IBU.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Show your working
Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record taken from Tally's California master, Pass 187, which cited https://madriverbrewing.com/about/ for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's California master, Pass 187 (research workbook) · Tally's Beer Universe research workbook · 2026
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
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