Speedway Pace Car
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured Regular|
Score
7.15
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A lighter take on our legendary Speedway Stout. Smooth, velvety, and packed with a bold coffee flavor, yet sessionable.
Pace car leads the pack as a 6% coffee stout, inspired by our legendary Speedway Stout.
It features coffee and chocolate aromas with notes of roasted barley and subtle toffee character. A nitrogenated pour, gives it a creamy texture and smooth finish that stays steady lap after lap.
Pace car leads the pack as a 6% coffee stout, inspired by our legendary Speedway Stout.
It features coffee and chocolate aromas with notes of roasted barley and subtle toffee character. A nitrogenated pour, gives it a creamy texture and smooth finish that stays steady lap after lap.
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8.4/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8
Flavor 8.5
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Fantastic. Smooth and creamy, with notes of unsweetened chocolate, caramel, roast, coffee, and a touch of cascara, followed by a firm, lengthy bitterness and lingering roasted malt. My new platonic ideal of a nitro stout.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Aug 2026
at 00:21
8.1/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 8.5
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 8
a: dark brown coloured body | creamy tan nitrogenated head
a: brewed coffee | nutty | earthy malts
f: vanilla | walnuts | rustic end
t: creamy | burnt oatmeal | drying throughout
o: rich coffee flavours | soft sugars | velvety texture throughout - great to have!
16 ounce can | Westover Market (grocery): Arlington, Virginia | 04-May-2026 | US$4,99 | canned: 27-January-2026 | sampled: 25-July-2026 while watching the Warped Tour in Long Beach on my TV here in Washington after seeing the show last month in town, here.
a: brewed coffee | nutty | earthy malts
f: vanilla | walnuts | rustic end
t: creamy | burnt oatmeal | drying throughout
o: rich coffee flavours | soft sugars | velvety texture throughout - great to have!
16 ounce can | Westover Market (grocery): Arlington, Virginia | 04-May-2026 | US$4,99 | canned: 27-January-2026 | sampled: 25-July-2026 while watching the Warped Tour in Long Beach on my TV here in Washington after seeing the show last month in town, here.
Tried
from Can
from
Westover Market
on 26 Jul 2026
at 01:05
7.5/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7.5
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
US Pint can at Benny’s Place, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a murky almost black colour with a lasting frothy tan head. The aroma is roasty and coffee. The flavour is moderate liquorice bitter and sweet, with a silky smooth, rich, roasty, toffee, coffee, chocolate, light liquorice bitter palate. Over medium bodied with flat carbonation.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Jul 2026
at 14:38
6/10
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Appearance 9
Aroma 6
Flavor 6.5
Texture 1
Overall 6.5
Pounder can for 3$. Pour is big and black, impressive, but there is no real nitro head action like I was expecting. Malty nose, no sign of coffee in the aroma. Rather mello on the uptake. Easy drinken coffee stout, probably better than most. A better flavor than I was expecting. I just wish it had some carbonation, but hey, it is a nitro. Not sure if I would style this as a pastry stout, if it really is, its one of the best non cloying pasties I've ever had. Yes, a pretty good stout and an even better coffee stout. Smooth and civilized from start to finish. Not bad! Just miss the nitro head action and the carbonation. There, you have it.
Tried
from Can
from
Chalet Premier
on 12 May 2026
at 17:27
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
AleSmith rating number 40. 16 ounce can from Abe’s Cold Beer in Bethlehem, PA. Brown black pour. Finger-high creamy tan head. Roasted malt aroma hints at dark chocolate. First sip is creamy roasted malt. Hints of bittersweet chocolate and dark roasted coffee. Remarkably smooth and flavorful. Soft, silky mouthfeel. Similar to Guinness, but without the tanginess and history. Tasty, nonetheless.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Apr 2026
at 04:34
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On nitro tap at AleSmith, pours a deep dark brown/black with a cream tan head. Aroma has soft toasted malt, gentle coffee grounds, and some earthiness. Flavour is smooth, with gentle, earthy coffee grounds, and toasted malt. Smooth, creamy mouthfeel due to the nitrogenation. Simple but pleasant.
Tried
from Draft
at
AleSmith Brewing Company
on 11 Dec 2025
at 07:11