AleSmith Speedway Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

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Opaque pitch black with a espresso like small head. Nice chocolate, liquorice, mocha aroma. Flavor is strong chocolate, port, some woodyness and slight smoke. Full palate, warming and flavorful.

Bottle 75 cl. Pours black in color with a thick and creamy beige head, which looks great and stays on as a cap for the whole time. Cacao powder, roasted notes, coffee liqour leading to a bit of vinous notes and even a bit of some marzipan sweetness in aroma. Dark and powerful. Later on there appears some notes of salty licorice as well. Oily texture and leaving a nice layer of it on the glass. Mouthfeel is incredibly smooth and creamy. Bitter cacao with notes of cherryliqour in taste. Has a gentle warming effect. A bit of coffee beans too with light notes of salty licorice in flavor. Rich and strong. Feels quite sweet at first, but turns into combination of bitter and dark chocolate and freshly roasted coffee beans in finish. This is still one of my favorite imperial stouts, as it seems to be very well balanced and great tasting from time to time with those roasted notes, bitter chocolate, slightly sweet and slightly vinous notes working well together.

Bottle @ S&B#2. Pours black with a fully lasting and good lacing creamy light brown huge head. Aroma is chocolate, coffee, caramel, hops, roasted malt, dark fruit and a little burnt malt. Taste is medium+ sweet and bitter. Body is full, texture is creamy, carbonation is soft+. Finish is bitter, malty with lingering coffee. Most excellent black stuff.

Source : From Pearl Street in Vermont, 750ml bottle. Appearance : Opaque black with tick tan head. Aroma : Rich quality coffee. Taste : Dark chocolate with rich coffee. Palate : Creamy with a dry finish. Overall : Another great product from AleSmith.

Pours a near black color. Taste is quite roast and very smooth. Super tasty.

Thick black body, small tan head. Rich coffee and chocolate aroma, fine wood hoppy undertone. Starts full, malty and thick, hop bitterness to balance. Big complexity. Sharper, warming ending. Huge flavour. Light fizz. Fantastic. (ZeeBra)

An old, ill kept bottle. Appearance perfect. Aroma is dark malt and chocolate. Taste is the same with a smooth richness, and finish which is nicely sweet. Overall a great impy stout, but would love to try a bottle that still has the fresh coffee bursting out. Almost non-existant in my bottle.

22 ounce bottle shared while in line at Dark Lord Day. Pitch black and syrupy in appearance with a dark tan head of foam. Aroma is big on coffee, malted grains, baker’s chocolate, and toffee. The taste is loaded with coffee and chocolate. It’s a really satisfying beer because it delivers all the best parts of a traditional imperial stout in a big and accessible way. The high abv is underplayed and it’s very drinkable. Palate is heavy bodied, mild carbonation, smooth and thick like a chocolate shake in concentrated form. Overall, it’s as good of a stout you can expect to find sans gimmicks.

750ml bottle to the dome. Opaque brown-black, nice rusty beige head. Balanced vanilla coffee chocolate aroma, surprisingly mellow. A really well executed big beer, quite refined and sublime. A World Class Coffee Stout all the way. So nice and tasty that you want to savor it sip by sip, but it is actually quite drinkable. Classic stuff.

Pitch dark black body with a big dark brown head. Intense roasted malty aroma with vanilla, dark chocolate, wood, licorice, honey, berries and lots of coffee. Perfectly smooth body. Extraordinary bittersweet flavour with tons of coffee, chocolate, mocha and dark chocolate, as well as vanilla, honey, caramel, licorice, berries, a hint of floral hops. Perfect.