Speedway Stout Grand Prix MMXXV - Chocolate Pecan Pie
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series|
Score
7.39
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The Speedway Grand Prix hits the road again for 2025, and this time, we’re serving pie. Our legendary imperial stout pulls into the fast lane with four bold, dessert-driven variants inspired by classic American pies. From rich fillings to flaky finishes, each brew is a turbo-charged slice of nostalgia. Originally crafted for San Diego Beer Week, this mixed 4-pack captures the spirit of the celebration and drops it straight into your glass, no pit stop required.
Chocolate Pecan Pie Edition - Imperial Stout with Cacao Nibs, Pecans, Vanilla, and Coffee
Chocolate Pecan Pie Edition - Imperial Stout with Cacao Nibs, Pecans, Vanilla, and Coffee
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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Can. Black beer with a tan head. Chocolate and caramel/light toffee aroma with nuttiness. Chocolate and caramel flavor with light baking spices and light nuttiness. Medium-plus bodied. Chocolate and light molasses linger with caramel, light baking spices, and light nuttiness.
Tried
on 19 Mar 2026
at 20:33
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can @ Benzai's Anti-Carnival Valentine's Day Tasting Feb 26. Unclear dark appearance, deep tan head. Good chocolatey course with a noticeable pecan presence.. thick and chunky.. with a nice bitter roast side.
Tried
from Can
on 05 Mar 2026
at 12:17
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle shared at Anti-Carnavalstasting 2026. Opaque black color, average sized beige head. Aroma and flavor are malts, chocolate, pecan notes, decently bitter. Quite alright.
Tried
on 14 Feb 2026
at 19:19
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Dark brown. The aroma actually has a bit of green pepper from the coffee, and the roast coffee itself. Soft body, a bit of chocolate, light vanilla. Not bad, maybe a bit more all over the place in terms of the elements.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jan 2026
at 04:19
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6.5
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz. can, pours black with a small tan head. Aroma has earthy coffee, vanilla, butterscotch, and some burnt sugars. Flavour has plenty of earthy coffee, with the other adjuncts rather muddled and subdued—maybe some vanilla. A bit lacking in cohesion for a Speedway. Good, but disappointing given the standard of the base.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 31 Jan 2026
at 04:17
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7
473mL can. Pours black with a tan head. Earthy roast with notes of coffee and nuts on the nose. Flavour has loads of bitter cacao, good roasty base, some dusty toasted nuts. Nicely executed, but not getting too much on the pecan front.
Tried
from Can
on 31 Jan 2026
at 00:19
7.3/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
16 oz can purchased as a single at The Wine Thief & Ale Jail in Crystal, Minnesota. The pour is an opaque black brown with a ½ inch khaki head that falls relatively quickly. The aroma is milk chocolate, fudge, a touch of chocolate bitterness along with roast malt. The taste is sweet chocolate, cane sugar, char, roast malt and finishes with a kind of dark chocolate ashiness. The palate is medium to heavier boded, soft natural carbonation and the dark chocolate, softly boozy finish. This one showed the alcohol more than the Dutch Apple Pie version.
Tried
from Can
from
The Wine Thief & Ale Jail - Crystal
on 28 Jan 2026
at 01:11
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
16oz can from Alesmiths. Nose is coffee, cocoa, roast, and nuts. Black with a big cinnamon colored head. Flavor is light sweetness contrasting with a background bit of bittersweet chocolate along with the nuts.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 10 Jan 2026
at 20:57
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Can: Poured a black brown with a thin light brown creamy head. Aroma is chocolate, cocoa, nutty, pecan, roasted malts. Taste is rich roasted malts, chocolate, pecan, nutty.
Tried
from Can
from
Earlybird's Bottle Shop
on 10 Jan 2026
at 04:40
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Pint can pours with a deep dark black colored body that has deep red mahogany hues and supports a dark tan head of foam. The aroma offers up chocolate malts to dark chocolate, a bit of marshmallow and then wide thin note of nuttiness. The taste delivers a pleasing blend of chocolate malts, dark roasted coffee flowing into a sweeter pool of malty goodness to midway. Toward the finish the dark chocolate ramps up with only murmurs of the nuttiness in tow. Fairly rich sipper.
Tried
from Can
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 09 Jan 2026
at 04:33