AleSmith Barrel Aged Speedway Stout

Brewed by AleSmith Brewing Company
Style: Imperial Stout
San Diego, California USA

Serve in Snifter

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Bottle: Poured a pitch-black color stout with a medium size foamy head with minimal retention. Aroma of dry whisky with notes of dry roasted malt is interesting. Taste is a nice mix between some dry roasted malt notes with some coffee though not as much as in the original version with some dry whisky notes. Body is about average with medium carbonation and alcohol is not too apparent. A bit too dry and astringent for my taste thought still very much enjoyable.

(Bottle shared by Rusty at Black Friday tasting. This was the 2003 edition and bottle 147/196). Pours dark brown with red hues. Aroma is wood oxidation and cocoa. Taste is mostly sweet. Thin bodied with a sticky texture. Good, but definitely on the decline. I gave my ratings on the most recent bottle, although my notes are not entered yet.

Pours dark chocolate solid in color with a nice caramel head. The aroma is mostly booze for me with a bit of dark fruits. The flavor is some chocolate roasted malts blended smoothly with the booze from the barrel aging and notes of the dark fruits.

UPDATED: NOV 27, 2011 2003. Bottle 147. Very slight hiss upon opening. This is a bit past its prime certainly, but still awesome. Has held up quite well considering the age I’d say. Low carbonation. Nice booziness. Good coffee flavor. Exquisite Speedway palate and balance.

I love the barrel aged speedways. This is a 2003. The most recent 2011 I had was better (fresh) although I can imagine this beer being aged would be great! I do like having one way aged and one fresh to compare. There is not a lot of appearance as I would like from this style, but makes perfect sense with the age. Thanks for brining it to the tasting!!

Thanks once again to DT in the midwest.Opaque black pour good tan head aromas of bourbon caramel and rich coffee freshness some dark fruit molasses vanilla smoothness the flavours well now the main issue with alesmith is the balance between alcohol tastes hop malt bitter and sweetness and how all their ales are so smooth in taste this is no exception the bourbon is superb just so good expresso coffee dark chocolate molasses raisin and prune smooth vanilla tobacco mild velvety finish the bitter lasting along with some good maltiness hop fruit tastes and a resounding bourbon overtaste sweetness balanced a wonderful imperial

Bottle thanks to bsuedekum. Thanks a lot Blake! Pours thick and oily with a tan ring for a head. Aroma is bourbon, vanilla, chocolate. Flavor is coffee, chocolate and bourbon. Has a pretty sweet finish. Overall a very good beer.

I would say thanks to GT2, but my parents stood in line for this for him, so thanks mom and dad. Appearance is opaque, deep dark brown. Aroma is marshmallow, creme, chocolate pudding and hazelnut. There is also some graham cracker crust. Really great dessert aroma. Taste is bitter dark cocoa. There is some definite booziness in the finish, but not too much, some vanilla as well. Very well balanced. Palate is full bodied without being too thick and syrupy. Each element compliments the other quite nicely.

750mL 2009 ed. Ink black pour with a wildly active reddish tan head. Big lace for a BA beer. Nose up front is salty, briny, green olive, sharp gherkins. Volatile notes move to wildly awesome toasted coconut, milk chocolate, toasted coconut. Incredible umami savoriness in the nose. Taste is ultra soft, muted chocolate, lactic fattiness, and zero acidic coffee and lemon character which I despise in the normal Speedway Stout. This right here is a masterpiece. Muted barrel character, no heat, no booze. Just imperial stout perfection right here. Perfect palate: melted chocolate, chocolate pound cake, fatty yogurt, mild bourbon spice, buttery ganache. Holy fuck. An incredible experience. For one of the most stingy raters I can safely say this is totally worthy of its ranking and should be considered a god amongst men. Praise the lord for this beer.

A massive indebtedness for GT2 for hooking up with biggirlpanties whose parents actually camped out overnight to score this one for us - thanks to all! Pours opaque brown black, massive brown head with fine and solid lacing with good retention. Aroma of vanilla, smooth melted dark chocolate, subtle edge of coffee. Taste is extremely smooth whiskey laced espresso soda with dark cocoa and a slightly boozy and chocolate syrupy finish. Fantastic.