AleSmith Speedway Stout

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

Serve in Snifter

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As dark as they get, huge chocolate brown head, sheets of lace that last to the very end. Nose Coffee, choclate, malt, sweet and quite a pleasure to quaff. Front is sweet, the top full, creamy, the finish hop bitter, dry, lightly acidic. The 12 percent ABV, will definately ’Warm’ your ’Tummy’, ’World Class’, and another ’Magnificent Beer’ from a World Class Brewery, Thanks to the ’Master Brewer’, Skip Virgilio, for another great beer.

Lame label but surprise inside! One of the best stouts I ever placed my lips on its bottleneck! Well it is a Coffee stout (as the label says) so don’t be surprised if you taste coffee

An incredible Stout that exceeded my every expectation. AleSmith has a fine history of quality and Speedway is no exceptions. Delightfully robust, but somehow very smooth. It has a very full body, but the alcohol is barely present in the taste. Mostly, it just provides a rich variety of dark coffee and chocolate with a sharp aftertaste.

I love this beer. Its two of my favorite things: beer and coffee. Its like mixing the two just right. Black as night and dark as my soul. Love it.

wow! This is the best beer i have ever had, hands down. Since drinking this amazing brew, my goal has been to find its equal. I just can’t, so I’m left with this wonderful beer. . .this thing is a monster. After pouring into a snifter, leaving the yeast in the bottle, you can smell chocolate, toffee, COFFEE, vanilla, caramel, everything. All these flavors are common in imperial stouts but somehow speedway pulls them all together better than any other beer into a glorious symphony for my taste buds. Do whatever you can to get a hold of this beer. I only wish I had the self restraint to age one of these babies for a year or so. . .

UPDATED: JUN 16, 2010 Pitch black with a nice head and lacing all the way to the bottom of the bottle. Aroma is of strong coffee, with some chocolate and berry notes coming through. As I got to the bottom of my glass I also noticed some slight boozy scents, but they were pleasant rather than overpowering. I wish the nose was slightly stronger, because it smells very good. The taste and mouth feel are absolutely jawdropping. Dark roasted coffee, chocolate, Dr. Pepper (?) and a delicious back end like a lightly sweetened latte. Palate coating, sticky, full bodied but not overly viscous. Insanely drinkable, low alcohol burn. For the money, for the ease of acquisition, and for the ability to be consumed at any age or level of freshness, Speedway Stout might be the best beer in America.

UPDATED: SEP 7, 2010 Oh boy. This was my first rating ever and it was in severe need of updating. Man, I was a n00b. Well, the truth is I can kinda remember what it tasted like when I had it way back when, but the reason I’m updating this is because I just had a aged bottle, and to me, it just wasnt as good. I was kinda let down, but in truth, I liked it better pre-aged. That deserved a 5/5. But after 10 months of aging, something went awry. All the coffee notes disappeared, and the brew as a whole tasted a bit like bourbon. The chocolate notes tasted burnt, and it just wasn’t as magical an experience as I had hoped. That being said, I am leaving my rating at a 5/5 because when I had that bad boy on tap @ the brewery in Nov ’09, it blew my tiny mind wide open and I have been looking for something equally as good ever since, since it isnt available where I live. Fantastic beer with everything right, so long as you like imperial stouts, and the flavors of coffee and chocolate. Otherwise its not your beer. I will edit this again (more concisely) when I ever get my hands on a fresh one.

Amazing pour, fantastic appearance, even better taste. A sought after treasure on the East Coast..

It’s incredible, so complex and wanting for nothing, this is a perfect beer!

Such a rich flavor of coffee. Smooth flavor. Another grrrrrrrrrrreat San Diego beer.