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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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
8.1/10
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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.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Dec 2016
at 14:41
8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle thx to Benzai, small sample. Dark color, short frothy head. Aroma of cookie, chocolate, spicy coffee, some roast. Soft cookie sweetness in taste, bit coffee bitterness, slight spicy. Great balance, smooth velvety mouthfeel. Great beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2016
at 15:15
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle [from trade with Iggywh] @ home shared with Caesar. Opaque pitch black color, full sized thick dense long lasting dark brown head. Awesome! Aroma is malts, coffee, toasted malts, roast. Taste malts, firm roast in the flavor, firm coffee, firm roast malt bitter finish. Lingering roast malt bitterness as well. Hmm, you know what, this isn’t really that different from the regular Speedway is it? It’s good, it’s definitely good, but where is this different from regular Speedway?
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Aug 2016
at 20:39
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle - Lots of chocolate and nice medium roast coffee with a touch of booze. Jet black with a rich a decent light brown head. Wonderful chocolate and coffee dark notes with a nice sweetness and long sweet bitter roasty finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jul 2016
at 17:26
8.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by slowrunner77, thanks
Black with a small tan head, some lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate and coffee. Taste of roasted malts, chocolate and caramel
Very good, it doesn’t taste like 12%.
Black with a small tan head, some lacing. Aroma of roasted malts, chocolate and coffee. Taste of roasted malts, chocolate and caramel
Very good, it doesn’t taste like 12%.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 May 2016
at 01:36
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of slowrunner77, thanks! Clear ruby brown color, off tan head. Aroma has coffee, vanilla. Taste is rich fruity coffee, dark chocolate, espresso. Very tasty and shockingly easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 May 2016
at 16:14
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
33cl bottle shared at April THT. thin creamy tan head. Clear almost black pour. Lots of coffee. Very good
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2016
at 15:39
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
On draft at Bagby Beer Company in Oceanside, CA. Pours black with a tan head. Coffee aroma. Flavor of coffee and stone fruits. Bitter roast finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 19 Mar 2016
at 18:14
8.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Bottle:: (thank you phaleslu!) Pours black, with a creamy tan head. Rich chocolate, coffee ground aroma. Really smooth....dark chocolate malt, roasty black coffee flavour. Great, great, stuff......easy drinking, robust... Not too sweet or bitter... I could have a pint of this every day (or night)..... I may just have to get my very own Civet......and I will love him and pet him and squeeze him and hug him....and I will call him George.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Jan 2016
at 17:22