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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8.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
750mL bottle, pours black with a medium tan head. Nose brings out loads of coffee, followed by cocoa, and some caramel sweetness. Flavour brings out highly roasted coffee, creamy lactic notes, and dry cocoa. Super creamy mouthfeel, with a finish of coffee and dry cocoa. The best of both worlds here. Wonderful, though I prefer each beer by themselves.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Mar 2015
at 00:07
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Pours opaque black, medium beige head, dissipates fairly quickly, good lacing. Aroma is cocoa, tobacco, espresso, ashtray. Flavor slight sweet, medium bitter, roasty and lots of strong coffee. Medium body, lingering bitterness. Solid.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Mar 2015
at 21:03
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
[2/15/15] Draught at Mikkeller Bar in San Francisco. Black with a brown head. Roasty aroma with coffee. Bittersweet roasty flavor with chocolate and coffee. Full-bodied. Great, but not one of the best Speedway variants.
Tried
on 16 Mar 2015
at 03:31
7.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Bottle shared by my Beaverton peeps at De Garde. Pours a pitch black color with a medium beige head. Big roast, toffee and coffee nose. The flavor is pretty drinkable with very sweet coffee, smoke, heavy roast, vanilla, more round sweet coffee flavors. A vanilla and dark fruit finish. Solid. Quite nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Mar 2015
at 13:30