Speedway Stout - Beer Geek
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Collab with: MikkellerStout - Imperial Rotating Out of Production
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7.95
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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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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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle. Pours black with medium tan head that lasts. The aroma is chocolate, wood, roast, smoke. Thick body, chewy, roasted malt, dark chocolate, nice smoke, boozy finish, very nice.