AleSmith Barrel Aged Speedway Stout

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

Thanks to Blake for opening his today. 04Batch Bottle #13 Jet black pour, thin tan head w/ thick lacing. Big malt aroma lots of butter, light bourbon, very mellow well blended aroma. Palate is rich & creamy w/ a well coated feel & a warm swallow. Flavor is big malty lighly buttered extremly mellow bourbon and a very dry finish. This is an extremly balanced beer w/ no ove the top component.. it’s delicious. Sampled next to an 04 non BA speedway. The regular has much mnore coffee and a sharp hit w/ less butter and no bourbon. They are both different but I liked the BA a little better. 04batch bottle #11 black pour w/ a nice small tan head and a good lace. mmm.. w/ a nother year under the cap it actualy is more mellow the bourbon is quieter very well blended now. worth +1 on overall... num num

Co-Rated with Hopscotch. #40 of 115. Black hole black, tan creamy head. So much going on in this baby. Bourbon, toasted nuts, coffee, chocolate, dark fruits, oak and alcohol. Aroma and flavor is the about the same. Huge full bodied brew which in my book is an instant classic. Just freakin amazing...

Wow what great stuff. Had this at the first ever tapping at O’Brien’s Pub. Felt lucky to get my share of the 2.5 gal keg. Dark dark, with a brown head. Strong aromas of barrel. The flavor of the barrel was evident too, but more in the aroma. Flavors of chocolate, whisky, alcohol, and roastiness. Wonderful.

Rich, dark chocolate body and mind-blowing aromas of oak and ethyl character, bordering on cleaning fluid. Rich chocolate, malt, and alcohol veins assault the palate. Again, the infiltration of ethyl/cleaning fluid finish detracts. INTENSE.

2006 #187/233 thanks to fordest. Black pour with a thin khaki head that dissipates fast. Nose of smooth vanilla and roasted coffee. Very very smooth with roasted malts and great vanilla and bourbon notes.

Bottle 84, at the Knoxville Spring(ish) tasting. Holy crap this is good. I’m indebted to Jay for bringing this. Pours opaque black with tan head. The aroma is bourbon (but not overwhelming), espresso, cinnamon, molasses, and pinot noir. The flavor is just as impressive as the aroma. Bourbon, pinot noir, oak, bitter chocolate, espresso. The finish is woody and earthy, and has a coffee element that sticks into the aftertaste. Some prunes come out from time to time, as do tar, blackberry, and ash. The alcohol is very well masked. A very complex beer that melds together beautifully. This is high quality stuff. I wish I could get some more.

Opaque, deep and chocolatey black in color with grey dust in a swirl winding around at the surface to form a reserved head. Aroma imparts wafts of decadent chocolate truffles infused with a caramel bourbon tract, providing a baseline sweetening, but not over-the-top and independent - decadent, rather. Glazed caramel chews with hints of frangelico, sweetened with brown sugar and melting chocolate shells. It’s a thinker aroma, surrounded by a huge caramel avec bourbon compliment. Balance is the aromatic key here. Refined is another way to put it.

The notion of control is also well fed in the flavor. Delicate, boisterous chocolates melt like truffles over hot springs. The roasty espresso bean complexity is muted, capped and trapped under an engulfing dark chocolate coating. Warming vocal box voices joyous sentiments before the mind comprehends its speech patterns. Mocha grinds are pressed upon bakers chocolate bricks but the coffee elements are very subdued, hiding the boisterous elements of the regular Speedway with rounded corners, like melting milk chocolate Godiva squares infused with creme de cacao and smooth Magellan. Oily, full-fledged, big-bodied beer and an overall palate treat. Smooth, melting, delicatessen chocolate finish is free from bitter coffee arraignments, instead imparting mild tannic lingerings, and succumbing to the smooth chocolate force.

ENORMOUS THANKS to Blake (1FastSTi) for sharing Bottle No. 13!

Dear merciful god this is good! Aroma is an amazing whiskey filled coffee fest. Apperance is pitch black with almost no head,. I taste all kinds of stuff in this like vanilla, cherries, chocolate, coffee, etc etc. The aftertaste is somewhat sticky. Thanks for sharing the bottle DaSilky and Iceman!