AleSmith Speedway Stout

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

Bottle thanks to hophead22. Pour is Black with very thin brown head. Looks thick and oily. Aroma is roasted malt, coffee, rich brown sugar, and chocolate. Smells wonderful. Flavor is huge rich chocolaty malt with very subtle notes of coffee. This really is so well balanced and tasty. Alcohol no where to be found. Awesome.

This could be the perfect beer. It poured like a vision, full of life, cascading from black into a perfect tan head. The aroma is heavenly ... rich with dark coffee. Onto the drink, this is not for the faint hearted -- overflowing with gallons of flavor in every drop, thick as a brick, loaded with rich baking chocolate, coffee, black fruit. The best beer I’ve had in a long, long time. (#3598, 11 July 2009)

The definitive stout. Aroma full of thick coffee and chocolate notes, poured obsidian black and velvety with a deep caramel/brown head. Flavor was coffee, chocolate, coffee, chocolate, and then more coffee. Alcohol hard to find as the tastes overwhelms the buds, and overall this is what a stout should be.

Reviewed 8/13/2008 in Coronado - purchased @ South Bay Drug, Joey’s amazing Imperial Beach beer emporium... Pours a licorice/espresso/spent motor oil body. While 1st pour has only a thin wispy head 2nd pour yields big and bountiful pumpernickel/banana nut bread colored head. Impressive. Mild yet abundant scent of coffee beans backed by caramel/cinnamon sugar malt and oily alcohol. Smells nicely ominous. ((eyes rolling into back of head)) Wow. Lots and lots of coffee-Italian roast or darker. Loads of malt and piney piney hops. Warmth brings out more cinnamon sugar and molasses. $#!+ dog! Literally melts on the mouth. First sip or 2 leaves a little tin on the back but this dissipates. Long, sweet sledgehammer of a finish. Awesome stuff but here’s a news flash...not quite sessionable. Drinks invitingly well for its weight class, though.

750mL bottle: apperance is used motor oil black with a slow fading brown head, aroma of chocolate, licorice, roasted malt and who knows what else but its all there, flavor is big in the chocolate and licorice but also has some coffee taste, which I hate coffee but really helps out this brew,

It pours a dark black, color with a thick tan head. There are some small spots along the sides of the glass. the nose is very robust and malty. It tastes like heaven, full of dark malt, creme, chocolate,and roasted coffee. It is nice and full bodied and well balanced. There is a lot of carbonation and has a good finish.

Pours out an impenetrable black colour with a massive mocha head that slowly fades to a sudsy film, leaving behind concentric rings of lace with each sip. The nose is loaded with light roasted coffee, intense milk chocolate, and a hint of smokiness. The flavour is extremely roasted and full of coffee flavour, too. Accompanying flavours of anise, citric hops, bitter dark chocolate and some more dark/fruity coffee in the finish. the mouthfeel is silky smooth, with soft yet prickly carbonation and a super long finish.

Poured into a Klokke Roeland snifter. A- Pours black and opaque with a two finger head that is frothy, soapy and looks like the whipped head of a latte. S- Coffee, smoke, dark chocolate and hops. T- Bitter coffee, chocolate and currants. M- Creamy and slick with a nice carbonation. D- WOW- Almost too drinkable for a 12% superstar! I’m 2/3 of the way through the bottle with a Vacuvin cork in it thinking hmm... This is now my favorite stout! (sorry Old Rasp) What can I say? This is a great tasting beer, I just wish it was more available... maybe not, I do have to work. :)