AleSmith Brewing Company Speedway Stout - Vietnamese Coffee

Speedway Stout - Vietnamese Coffee

 

AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸

  Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating
Score
8.27
ABV: 12.0% IBU: 70 Ticks: 171
This Vietnamese coffee version of Speedway Stout is and continues to be AleSmith's most popular variation of the ever-growing Speedway Stout collection. Since 2012 we have been adding this blend of four Vietnamese coffees, known in Vietnam as cà phê sa đá, to our popular imperial stout. The coffee beans were slowly roasted at low temperatures and then brewed by AleSmith with a traditional phin-style filter that gently percolates water through the ground coffee. The result is an intensely aromatic and bold tasting coffee that complements the notes of chocolate and roast in this massive stout.
 

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9.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 9.5

27 September 2018. Birthday Antwerp Pub Crawl - cheers to Anke! At Gollem.
Pours cloudy black with a lasting, thin, frothy, dark beige head; little lacing. Intense & very complex aroma of vanilla, soy sauce, blackcurrant, lemon even, milk chocolate, coffee & cream, kahlua, hazelnut, dates, coffee beans, apple cake with cinnamon. Medium to heavy malty sweet onset, quite chocolatey, never cloying, lots of umami notes of soy & stew to balance it out, a bit nutty; light to medium roasted bitter in the middle, hints of coffee & fondant; retronasal, sourish accents of lemon & raisin. Dry, toasty, peppery hoppy finish, lingering coffee, cream & raisin, warming whisky alcohol. Full body, creamy, not perfectly oily texture, soft carbonation. Very deep in aroma & flavour, massively tasty... one of the best!

Tried on 10 Oct 2018 at 12:58


8

Taster;prominent aroma of coffee,coffee bean,cocoa,dark chocolate,moderate dark sugars (molasses,caramel) & sweetness,touch of earth & alc

Tried from Draft at Pivnica Lajbah on 09 Oct 2018 at 21:29



8

Not quite as good as I remembered, coffee notes are quite smooth and subtle.

Tried from Draft on 07 Oct 2018 at 16:33


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 9

Tap at Cafe Sara, 25th September 18. Pours a black beer with a nice tan head. Aroma is coffee and dark chocolate. Taste is smooth and silky, bitter coffee bean and bitter chocolate, dry finish slight dry sour. Really very good. Should be for £12.50 a half pint

Tried from Draft on 25 Sep 2018 at 19:54


8.1
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

Planke på Bootleggers København aug-18: brunsvart med kort skum. Heftig og begeistret aroma og smak med tonnevis av deilige dessertchokolader, luksuskaffe, bjørnebær og mørke karameller (tenk Karamelleriet i Jægersborggade!). Men Bad Luck sin Sailor's Grave var faktisk like god!

Tried on 11 Aug 2018 at 14:00


8.4
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

On tap at MBCC 2018. Pours black with brownish head. Roasted malts, coffee, chocolate, vanilla, sweet with some bitterness in finish. Medium bodied. Not as thick or intensive as expected.

Tried from Draft on 19 Jul 2018 at 06:08


8.9
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5

How: Draught.
Where: MBCC 2018.
Appearance: Black colour with a beige head.
Aroma: Coffee, liquorice, chocolate, malt.
Body: Full body, low carbonation.
Flavour: Coffee, chocolate, some alcohol, some more coffee.

Tried on 03 Jul 2018 at 14:30


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap. Pours black with moderate tan head. aromas of chocolate, back coffee, clean roasted malts and a bit of coconut. Flavors of nougat-y chocolate, oily and acidic black coffee, slick roasted malts and that tiny bit of coconut again. Very nice but I prefer the base Speedway so much more!

Tried from Draft on 25 Jun 2018 at 02:22


8.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5

Tap@mbcc 2018. Poured pitch black with a thin brown head. Aroma has coffee, vanilla beans, chocolate and roastedness. Sweet, very balanced. Coffee lingering . Excellent.

Tried from Draft on 11 May 2018 at 15:51