Speedway Stout Grand Prix MMXXV - Dutch Apple Pie
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series|
Score
7.37
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Dutch Apple Pie Edition - Imperial Stout with Apples, Cinnamon, Coffee, and Natural Flavors
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured a black with a ring brown heads. Aroma apples, cinnamon, roasted malts, little artificial flavored. Taste is apple, cinnamon, roasted malts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Dark brown. This has a lot of apple on the nose, maybe a bit of spice. On the palate, some cinnamon and a lot of coffee roast from the base. It's fun, as these usually are, but not especially complex beyond smacking you over the head with coffee, apple and cinnamon.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz. can, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of cinnamon and apple core, with the coffee and roast taking a backseat. Flavour has more of the good coffee and roast base from classic Speedway, with very gentle cinnamon and apple. Far from my favourite Speedway variant, but the adjuncts somehow work well here. Very good.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Poured from 473mL can (a bit dented, but fine; canned 10/13/2025). Dark brown with small light tan head. Apple, cocoa, touch of cinnamon, feint background coffee. Gimmicky, decent, but could see this degrading quickly, best to drink relatively fresh.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8.5
Pint can pours with a nice deep dark colored body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up apples and blueberries as well as lesser amounts of chocolate covered marshmallows and a hint of nutty coffee. The taste comes across rather apple juice like but the chocolate malts and hazelnut coffee notes seem to pull the apple fruitiness into a plum to dark berry direction. Another sip reveals plum and fig like fruity sweetness where one expects a bit more of the base beer roastiness and coffee coming through. That's the take-away, the treatment muddles the beer experience as the base beer gets a little lost.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 8
Can from Tavour. Pours drk brn/blk with a very transient dark tan head. Aroma is very apple pie with light spice. Med plus body. Flavor is the aroma, and the spice seems cinnamon. Not dry. Mildly bitter. Some coffee goes with the pie. Pretty nice pastry.