AleSmith Speedway Stout

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

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.

RBSG THE SHIT:
This was an amazing beer that was produced by Peter for the 2008 festival Rate Beer Summer Gathering. Peter was very generous and supportive to the site to do so and it is a shame a small handful of bosses didn’t feel the same support or that this sites 3 days of festivities doesn’t constitue a festival. The beer was black with a beautiful dark brown head. The aroma and flavor had gobs of milk chocolate and very smooth full black coffee. The flavor had more of a bitter sweet chocolate than milk. This was more intense, flavorful and delicious than the original. Where this blows away other coffee beers is the smoothness and real taste of fresh coffee. It didn’t have the tart roast or two day spent grind smell/flavor. This was like an amazing cup of coffee with a milk chocolate bar and shot of alcohol in it. Full bodied and silky with great warmth. My wife needs to fill my cup with this every morning. After 7 pours I give this a 10/5/10/5/20

Poured black with a medium sized brown head. Sweet aroma of roasted malt, coffe, and burnt tobacco. Sweet black coffee flavor with a long bitter finish. Full bodied. Old rating of 9/5/9/4/18 4.5

truely a worldclass beer

Holy crap! Many thanks to Hi-time wine's new online ordering system and speedy delivery - this beer is amazing - completely opaque, slight dark tan head - heavy, thick, aroma of dark coffee, molassas and caramel - extraordinarily chewy body, thick mouthfeel - amazing and complex flavor - slightly sweet at first, then some intense bitter-sweet chocolate and lots (and I mean LOTS) of coffee - hop bitterness creeps its way in - very well hidden alcohol content, and the bitterness balances out the initial sweetness very well, keeping it from being cloying, which is often the downfall of such hig alcohol brews - this is imperial stout heaven - equal to expedition stout in my mind, perhaps even better. I have to give it a 5, regardless of its almost complete lack of head. It's just that good.

Thanks to kujo9 for this bottle! Fresh chocolate aroma with a burnt toffee within. Taste is a smooth milky complexion with a dark chocolate finish. Bitterness overall. Fantastic.