Speedway Stout - Kopi Luwak Coffee
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Rotating Out of Production|
Score
8.09
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Kopi Luwak is one of the World's most expensive and rare coffee varieties. The beans are specifically selected for their ripeness and quality by the civet, a small jungle marsupial that feeds off the fruit of the coffee cherry. They are then gathered by humans from the jungle floors of Indonesia, thoroughly cleaned, and sun-dried. A precise roasting by San Diego's Ryan Bros. coffee leads to an extremely aromatic and exceptionally smooth final product that complements this imperial stout amazingly well. Good to the last dropping!
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7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
75cl bottle. Pours almost black with a small tan head. Aroma of sweet chocolate, coffee, some wood. Taste of sweet chocolate, vanilla, hints of metallic hops...
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:58
8.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Black with brown head. Aroma is dark chocolate, slight phenols, cocoa, ovomaltine, lacto. Taste is spicy with lots of sweet chocolate and bitter coffee. Very smooth with a spicy note on top. Long bittersweet finish. Good, slightly too spicy.
Tried
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Dark brown color with beige head. Aroma is fruity, espresso ground, black chocolate, metallic. Taste is espresso, black chocolate, metallic again. Very well-balanced. Nice, but a bit metallic - maybe a bit too old.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Feb 2017
at 14:55
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bouteille 75cl courtesy of El Manana +1 @ Sebletitje’s Farewell Tasting. Dégustée avec la version BA. Brun foncée, col blanc-cassé. Arôme offer un bouquet chargé niveau du café, malt grillé, caramel et bon chocolate. Palais est épais, plein de malts, café est là sans être trop dominant ni sans avoir ce côté épicé de café ayant déjà un peu d’age. Carctère reste un peu sec, chocolate, grille avec un café plaisant qui arrive juste en retrait.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2016
at 06:05
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as AleSmith Speedway Stout - Kopi Luwak (by AleSmith Brewing Company):
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
18/XI/16 - 75cl bottle @ Seb's Farewell Tasting (Eugene's place) - BB: n/a (2016-1331) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: roasted start, lots of chocolate, some coffee, very yeasty, some vanilla. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: sweet start, very roasted, bit sourish, alcohol, lots of dark chocolate, bit fruity. Aftertaste: hoppy, bitter, chocolate, very roasted, slightly sweet, hoppy, very roasted finish. Not getting too much coffee.
Aroma: 9/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 4.1/5
18/XI/16 - 75cl bottle @ Seb's Farewell Tasting (Eugene's place) - BB: n/a (2016-1331) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the bottle!
Clear dark brown to black beer, small creamy beige head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving some lacing in the glass. Aroma: roasted start, lots of chocolate, some coffee, very yeasty, some vanilla. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: sweet start, very roasted, bit sourish, alcohol, lots of dark chocolate, bit fruity. Aftertaste: hoppy, bitter, chocolate, very roasted, slightly sweet, hoppy, very roasted finish. Not getting too much coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Nov 2016
at 16:13
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bottle at Craigs. Pours black with a thin tan head. Aromas of coffee, light booze, vanilla, leather. Taste is more of the same. Spicy finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Dec 2015
at 14:07
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Bottle at craig’s. Pours black, nose is chocolate, toffee, soapy, taste is chewy toffee, chocolate, coffee, roasted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Dec 2015
at 15:01
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Consumed like 2 years ago, from a bottle. Poured a smooth dark, almost black-brown color with a nice small brown head. Aroma was rich coffee and chocolate, dark, molasses malt notes to it as well. Flavor was chocolate, roast and of course, coffee.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Sep 2015
at 10:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 9
Bottle thanks to Gibson. Pours a very dark brown with small beige head that lasts leaving sticky lacing. The aroma is strong roast coffee and toasted biscuit. Medium mouth with sweet roast, nice bitterness from the coffee, toffee, dark chocolate, very nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Mar 2015
at 12:52
9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 10
Overall 9
Poured from 750 bottle, thanks Willrunforbeer. Pours dark chocolate with rich brown head. Aromas of chocolate, caramel, and coffee. Taste is smooth and silky, like the Patriots trouncing the Colts 45 to 7. Notes of chocolate, coffee and an exceptional finish. This is a super beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jan 2015
at 20:40