Speedway Stout - Vietnamese Coffee
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating|
Score
8.27
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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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7.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8.5
Draft. Black beer with a brown head. Coffee aroma. Coffee and roast flavor with chocolate and light marshmallow. Medium-plus bodied. Coffee and roast linger with chocolate and light caramel.
Tried
from Draft
on 18 Oct 2018
at 02:24
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Keg at BBB cons 2018-10-11 Göteborg AR: bourbon vanilla, rich coffee, nougat AP: dark brown, dark brown wee lid F: rich carbonated, coffe, bourbon vanilla, nougat, dry, wee home brewed alcoholic
Tried
on 11 Oct 2018
at 16:47
8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 9
Draught @ Cooper's Craft & Kitchen. Opaque dark brown with small foamy tan head, coffee aroma, low carbonation, a bit tart, medium bitter coffree beans taste with molasses/rum flavor, smooth thickish body, long rich finish. Very well covered alcohol content; very fulfilling.
Tried
on 10 Oct 2018
at 20:29
9.4/10
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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!
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
8/10
Taster;prominent aroma of coffee,coffee bean,cocoa,dark chocolate,moderate dark sugars (molasses,caramel) & sweetness,touch of earth & alc
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from Draft
at
Pivnica Lajbah
on 09 Oct 2018
at 21:29
9/10
Tried
on 07 Oct 2018
at 19:28
8/10
Not quite as good as I remembered, coffee notes are quite smooth and subtle.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Oct 2018
at 16:33
8/10
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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
8.1/10
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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
8.4/10
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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