AleSmith Barrel Aged Speedway Stout

Sampled at DLD. Pours dark brown with a creamy brown head. The aroma has lots of bourbon and milk chocolate, cream and vanilla - quite lactic. Full bodied with soft carbonation. There are lush rich flavors that are well integrated - bourbon, roasted malt, chocolate, cream vanilla, oak and other aspects - quite complex. The finish was smooth and vineous with lots of roasted malt and seemed a bit milky. Excellent impy stout.

Had at DLD.BA Speedway it was great,chocolate and coffee with a tan head.,rich and roasty.CHEERS

Bottle shared opened by Leopoldstotch at DLD. Deep black with a thin tan head that fades to an oily topcoat. Awesome aroma of rich vanilla and oak. I could smell this stuff for hours. Complex flavor, coffee, chocolate, licorice, stone fruits. A velvety smooth mouthfeel that absolutely coats everything. A dark chocolaty finish. This beer was outstanding and thank you Leopold for popping this one open!

2/1/08. 750 ml bottle from 2004. #49/228. Sampled on "An Evening with Pantanap #3" Huge thanks to andrew for bringing out this one. It lived up to the hype and up to my small sampled previous rating. Pours black with a brown head that laces down. Bourbon nose. Rich toffee, chocolate. There is a sense of Speedway underneath. Flavor of roasted malts. Milk and bitter chocolate, bourbon. The lasting chocolate taste is balanced with the bourbon so well. Creamy thick delicious. Wow what a tasty brew. 9/4/9/4/18 = 4.4

750 ml bottle shared by Leopoldstotch on DLD. Pours a dark black with a tan head. Complex nose of chocolate, dark fruit, oak, and brown sugar. Very rich. Balanced and mellow flavors bitter chocolate, fruit, toffee, and carmel. Smooth and delicious ... but when i would try the BA Darklord in minutes and compare, this did not have those bursting complexities of DL. But still an excellent beer I never thought I would try. Thanks so much! 9/5/9/4/18 = 4.5

Like drew just said this was smashed between still nacht 2000 and ba darklord. Simply amazing. Had a very solid aroma of bourbon and coffee. Incredible flavor of roasty chocolate and coffee. Simply smooth and incredible.

sample at DLD, ’04 vintage. huge thanks to leopoldstoch for sharing. i had this sandwiched inbetween Stille Nacht Reserva 00 and Oak Aged DL! I guess that could only mean at DLD. poured beautiful black with tan head. nose had loads of wonderful cocunut, dark fruits, toffee, caramel, charred wood, and bourbon. an amazing nose. flavor notes of raisins, plums, chocolate, coffee, caramel, and bourbon. alcohol was warming but hidden well. too bad the nose was just better than the flavor. it all didn’t seem to come together that well and the Oak Aged DL i followed this with was more impressive. thanks again for sharing! 4.3.

2/1/08. ’04 vintage. sampled at "An evening with Pantanap #3". Big thanks to alafito for this amazing bottle. pours dark brown with thin beige head. nose is tight with coffee, roast, chocolate, slight bourbon, and aged malts. flavor is coffee, chocolate, roast, nuts, nutmeg, bourbon, oaky charness. body is silky smooth and full. low carbonation. alcohol warmth but well hidden. this is extremely good and easily the best AleSmith BA beer and worthy of a 4 in appearance. 8/4/9/5/17=4.3.

Thanks Abby for the chance to have a go at this beer!! Shared at DLD. I really wanted this one to blow my socks off and while it was excellent and a great imperial stout it was not everything I would have imagined. The aroma was great with vanilla, bourbon,chocolate, coffee, caramelized burnt wood and all sorts of other stuff as well. The palate was incredibly smooth with the only notion of alcohol coming from the bourbon barrel not the actual beer. And even then it melded really well and worked perfectly. Alesmith really knows how to make the most completely balanced beers, and even when they experiment with barrel aging they still manage to make one the most balanced BA stouts, that is really tasty! I guess I just had too high of hopes for this one that I was bound to be let down, but none the less it was still highly enjoyable and a real treat that I am so happy I was able to try. Thanks Abby!! Oh yeah I think it was bottle 89/228 from the 2004 batch

Dark dark brown, not quite black coloured beer with a surprisingly decent well retained tan head. Aroma has lots of malts in it, a bit of coffee, and wisps of whiskey. The flavour had a lot of alcohol in it but it’s controlled by the tons of other flavours; fruity, coffee, oaky, some roasted malts in there as well. Somewhat of a drying finish, but it’s still luxurious and full of flavour.