Speedway Stout - Beer Geek
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: MikkellerStout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
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Score
7.94
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Imperial Stout Oatmeal Stout with Kopi Luwak Coffee. Released January 2015.
This beer is the culmination of the efforts of two world-class brewers to create the most vitalizing coffee stout in the world. AleSmith and good friend Mikkeller join forces, blending the legendary Speedway Stout and Beer Geek Brunch Weasel together into one massive Imperial Oatmeal Stout with enough coffee and oats to substitute for your weekend brunch.
A beer of this magnitude requires a robust coffee with enough backbone to compliment the roasty and dark malt flavors; Kopi Luwak Coffee is the perfect choice. These coveted coffee beans are selected for their ripeness and quality by the Indonesian Palm Civet, a jungle marsupial that devours the fruit of the coffee cherry. The beans are then gathered from jungle floors, washed, sun-dried, and roasted. This smooth and aromatic stout is seriously good to the last dropping.
This beer is the culmination of the efforts of two world-class brewers to create the most vitalizing coffee stout in the world. AleSmith and good friend Mikkeller join forces, blending the legendary Speedway Stout and Beer Geek Brunch Weasel together into one massive Imperial Oatmeal Stout with enough coffee and oats to substitute for your weekend brunch.
A beer of this magnitude requires a robust coffee with enough backbone to compliment the roasty and dark malt flavors; Kopi Luwak Coffee is the perfect choice. These coveted coffee beans are selected for their ripeness and quality by the Indonesian Palm Civet, a jungle marsupial that devours the fruit of the coffee cherry. The beans are then gathered from jungle floors, washed, sun-dried, and roasted. This smooth and aromatic stout is seriously good to the last dropping.
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7.8/10
LCI from last night: Pleasant, but definitely past its prime. Autolysis, not much coffee remaining, a touch of sweetness, a strong underlying beer nonetheless
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jan 2025
at 22:59
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Black with a medium light brown head. Aroma of chocolate, coffee and some dried fruit sense. Sweet with a warm chocolate and dark fruit end. Mikkeler bar Copenhagen, Karen 40 yrs.
Tried
on 20 Sep 2024
at 16:12
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle. Pours pitch black with a medium brown head. Aromas of coffee, tobacco, sweet licorice, vanilla, lactose, malt, dark chocolate. Taste has coffee, vanilla, ash, hops, dark chocolate, malt, roast. Seems like a bad mashup of two great beers. I’d rather have a weasel and a speedway side by side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Nov 2019
at 16:55
7/10
2014. Palony, kawowy, zbozowy, niewiele ciala, czuc wiek. Dobre ale tylko tyle. Wytrawny. 3.6? Milo sie pije, bo lekki
Tried
from Bottle
at
Mikkeller Bar Warsaw
on 24 Jul 2018
at 18:05
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Oxford tasting; 2015, 2 years old
Black color, small head. Aroma of dark malts, coffee, a bit of smoke. Full bodied, sweet, but also the roasted malts and coffee are evident , and so the alcohol; eventually they create something chaotic, rather than harmonious.
Black color, small head. Aroma of dark malts, coffee, a bit of smoke. Full bodied, sweet, but also the roasted malts and coffee are evident , and so the alcohol; eventually they create something chaotic, rather than harmonious.
Tried
on 11 Jun 2018
at 19:06
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 8
Bottle sample @ RBBWG Mar 10h. 2018, thanks Marko. Brune foncée, presque noire, col beige voire café au lait. Arôme est malté, chocolaté et un bouquet rempli rappelant la mélasse, fruité rouges et baies, le café semble cependant un peu discret. Palais est malté, caramel, chocolaté, café léger, alcool bien là pour un caractère épais, pas mal de sucré résiduel. Fini sec, fini soyeux mais lourd même en partageant à plusieurs surtout que l'effervescence est faible accentuant le côté lourd de ce stout.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Mar 2018
at 14:58
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
F: big, dark tanned, not long lasting. C: dark, opaque. A: dark roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, dark fruits, spicy, umami. T: roasted tones, cocoa, herbal, dry bitterness, spicy, toffee, complex, great beer, full body, lower carbonation, 75cl bottle sampled @ RBBWG (10/03/2018), many thanks ElManana+1.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Mar 2018
at 14:07
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Imported from my RateBeer account as AleSmith / Mikkeller Beer Geek Speedway (by AleSmith Brewing Company):
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
10/III/18 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG (Beer Lover's, Antwerp) - BB: n/a (2018-274) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small aery irregular beige head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: sweetish, roasted, chocolate. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of chocolate, pretty bitter, sweetish, some caramel, very roasted, bitter touch. Aftertaste: little sourish, lots of cocoa powder, dark chocolate, bit sourish, fruity touch, some mocha, alcohol, nice stuff!
Aroma: 8/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 9/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 17/20, MyTotalScore: 4.2/5
10/III/18 - 75cl bottle @ RBBWG (Beer Lover's, Antwerp) - BB: n/a (2018-274) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small aery irregular beige head, unstable, falls down quickly, non adhesive. Aroma: sweetish, roasted, chocolate. MF: soft carbon, medium to full body. Taste: lots of chocolate, pretty bitter, sweetish, some caramel, very roasted, bitter touch. Aftertaste: little sourish, lots of cocoa powder, dark chocolate, bit sourish, fruity touch, some mocha, alcohol, nice stuff!
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Mar 2018
at 19:09
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at joe's. Pours black, nose is chocolate, biscuity, toffee, coffee, taste is sweet toffee, chocolate, bit thin.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Feb 2018
at 07:57
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle at joes... thanks again Keith... Dark black.. Thin tan lacing... Soft meaty chocolate roast malts nose.. Heavy dark chocolate roast.. heavy chocolate.. Dry.. Heavy meaty chocolate roast malts.. Dry roast malts
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Jan 2018
at 16:40