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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8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 7.5
750ml bottle pours a thick black with plenty of creamy, tan head. Nose has malt, licorice, molasses, mild chocolate, mild coffee, yeast. Flavor is an easy blend of coffee, brown sugar, malt, molasses, mild chocolate. Full bodied but really easy to drink.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Aug 2015
at 17:01
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle sampled at ZEBF ’15. Pours near black with a ring beige head. Aroma of big coffee, biscuit, roast, dark chocolate and toffee. Flavour is moderate to heavy sweet and bitter. Medium to full bodied with soft carbonation.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Jun 2015
at 05:59
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle shared by Jeff, thanks! Pours black with a dark brown head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has musty dark grains, roasted malts and some earthy coffee notes. Flavor combines dark grain, roasted malts and an earthy coffee note to perfection.
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 May 2015
at 21:52
8.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle @ CBC courtesy of the nice brewer. Black with a brown head. Aroma is sweet, roasted malt and heavy coffee. Flavor is quite sweet and rather bitter. Dry and roasted rather bitter finish. 020515
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 May 2015
at 11:25
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle at the Ultimate Imperial Stout Tasting. Thnx for the awesome day, folks! This bottle was shared by myself, traded to me by Geoffrey. Pours black,with a small, rather dark head. Smell is bit sweet, roasted grains. Taste is sharp, bitter coffee. Very roasty, bitter aftertaste. Good MF and carbo.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2015
at 17:06
8.3/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750mL shared by McBerko. Pours with strong brown head, black head. I had fearful thoughts of an over the top beer but it’s not. Aroma is slightly sweet cocoa, faint acidic coffee, and pretty light actually. Flavor similar, not sweet, a dry roast,light acidity, and finishes with a bit of light sweetness. A sprinkled carbonation. Leaves a dry and lightly acidic aftertaste.
Tried
on 28 Mar 2015
at 00:27
8/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
750 mL bottle poured, shared by mcberko. Thanks! Pours jet black with a thick tan foam head. Lighter than expected fresh coffee aroma. Very smooth, thick, creamy coffee flavor. Touch of vanilla and coffee bean filled finish. Overall a delicious stout. Very well done.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2015
at 00:15