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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7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
2015. Dark brown. Thin head. On the palate, there’s a lot of coffee, and a light chocolate note. The coffee actually comes across pretty harsh…burnt Italian espresso. Which is not at all what you want to do with kopi luwak. The body underneath the coffee bomb is sweet and chocolatey, little bit sticky. Pretty good, with a lot of sticky, chewy stuff, but the coffee is stronger than I’d like in terms of balance.
Tried
on 28 Jan 2018
at 03:03
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle at Alex's. 2015. Pours an almost black with a beige head. Aroma is roasted malt and some fruity notes. Taste is similar with lots of roasty notes. This one is definitely Russian Imperial Stout, I would prefer it to be more sweet and less bitter. Still good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jan 2018
at 23:55
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle shared at THT January (Platypus Edition), at Kwartje Platypus Information and carecenter. Black with light tan head. Deep roasted chocolate malts, earthy coffee, light booze. Moderate sweet and roasty bitter. Full body and soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2018
at 13:58
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared at THT January (Platypus Edition). Massive thanks to RandomStrangerNL. Black with nice light brown head. Massive coffee, molasses, fudge, sweet malts, roast, blackberries, soft roasted nuts. Very nice coffee! Over medium sweet and bitter with light tart finish from the coffee. Full bodied. Not the best Speedway, but quite nice!
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Jan 2018
at 13:51
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Blend of AleSmith's Speedway Stout with Mikkeller's Beer Geek Brunch Weasel, enriched with the famous Kopi Luwak coffee, the beans of which are collected after having passed through the digestive system of the luwak, a mammal endemic to tropical Asia. This beer immediately drew my attention upon its release in early 2015, so I'm very happy to be able to still taste it two and a half years later. Lightly lacing, medium thick, pale yellow-beige, creamy head over a very dark mahogany-bronze beer, blackish in its general looks. Fascinating, spicy, lively and intense aroma of green coffee beans, bitter chocolate, Cuban cigars, walnut oil, cedarwood, espresso, toasted bread, cured meat. Sweet onset of candied fig and raisin with biltong-like meaty umami edge, bit sourish, medium carbo for the style, supple, viscous and oily mouthfeel. Nutty, toffeeish and eventually deeply toasted, big malt body with 'blood'-like iron edge, possibly related to the kopi luwak beans, coming across as 'raw' and green in the end; further adorned by sherry-like alcohol and peppery hop bitterness complementing the roasted barley and the coffee. Pungent, assertive, spicy and very interesting, deliciously colourful stout, seemingly somewhat more Speedway than Beer Geek character, but in any case a bit 'different' and well worth hunting down.
Tried
from Can
on 12 Oct 2017
at 13:25
7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Thanks Matthew for sharing the bottle! Poured into a snifter showing pitch black with no head. The nose shows a lot of strong roasted coffee bean; probably closer to espresso. The palate is full bodied and moderately carbonated. Espresso throughout with the same strong bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2017
at 22:51
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ RateBeer Best 2017 Bottle Share. Pours a black color with a small tan head. Has a roasted malty coffee chocolate aroma. Roasted malty chocolate coffee flavor. Has a roasted malty coffee chocolate and caramel finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2017
at 17:26
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle pour at the RateBeer Best 2017 Grand Tasting/Bottle Share. Dark brownish black with tan head. Aromas of dark chocolate, coffee, slight dark fruit. Tastes of dark chocolate, coffee, roasty notes. Full body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 05 Feb 2017
at 01:21
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of GT. Creamy hazy black pour with a frothy mocha head. Big roasty coffee nose. Light speedway chocolate banana. Moist soil. Light sweet and roasty. Round velvety mouth. Light dark fruit finish. Nice! --- Beer merged from original tick of (collab with) Mikkeller Beer Geek Speedway on 28 Dec 2016 at 17:45 - Score: 8. Original review text: Big roasty coffee nose. Light speedway chocolate banana. Moist soil. Light sweet and roasty. Round velvety mouth. Light dark fruit finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Dec 2016
at 14:36