Speedway Stout Grand Prix MMXXV - Blackberry Pie
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series|
Score
7.38
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Blackberry Pie Edition - Imperial Stout with Blackberries, Vanilla, and Coffee
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured dark brown black with ring brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, blackberry. Taste is roasted malts, chocolate, fruity, blackberry, boozy.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
16 oz. can, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is rich, with tons of blackberry puree, gentle vanilla, some coffee, and medium roast. Flavour marries the blackberry very well with the coffee and roast, with some vanilla overtones and attenuated out dark sugars. The berries aren’t too dominating, and the solid malt base still holds everything together. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Pint can pours with a nice dark colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a slap to the face in tart blackberry notes with thin ribbons of malts, dark roasted malts and dark roasted coffee well off in the background. The taste delivers a far more balanced experience than the nose was hinting at. I get fairly smooth slick malts and dark roasted coffee blending into dark berries and a berry tangy tartness as well. This is going well together and the sharper berry notes are playing against the smooth richness and roastiness of the base beer. As I'm typing the after taste comes through with addition of tasty chocolate malts. This one works really well.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can from Tavour. Pours dark brn/blk with a slight, transient creamy tan head. Aroma is blackberry with notes of coffee and vanilla. Med body. Drier than expected and fairly bitter. Flavor is burnt/roasty malt, blackberry and coffee with a light vanilla note.