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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8.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9
Handbottle.[ Courtesy of cgarvieuk ]. Clear dark brown black color with virtually none head. Aroma is heavy malty, roasted, chocolate, strong coffee, cacao, coffee, wood - tobacco, moderate alcohol. Flavor is heavy sweet and bitter with a long duration. Body is medium to full, texture is oily - creamy, carbonation is flat, finish feel is moderate alcoholic. [20110111]
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Mar 2011
at 11:22
7.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
8th January 2011
Big thanks to cgarvieuk for a taster of this - Cheers Craig. Lovely minerally coffee nose on this very dark brown beer. No head and next to no carbonation. Sillky almost oily palate. Mildy sour dark malt with rich coffee that starts mellow and blooms in to something stronger. The coffee keeps going andf going through to a lingering aftertaste. Lovely coffee beer!
Big thanks to cgarvieuk for a taster of this - Cheers Craig. Lovely minerally coffee nose on this very dark brown beer. No head and next to no carbonation. Sillky almost oily palate. Mildy sour dark malt with rich coffee that starts mellow and blooms in to something stronger. The coffee keeps going andf going through to a lingering aftertaste. Lovely coffee beer!
Tried
on 08 Jan 2011
at 09:30
8.3/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 9
Texture 6
Overall 9
hand bottle at home ... huge thanks for this one... which was offered out of blue ... deep black ... no head ... big soft coffee roast ... rich deep complex coffee nose... huge coffee front ... incredibly low bitterness ... big chocolate ... light oily rich body .. good solid roast ... very very nice ...by far my favourite of the speedways ... the comes a slight increase in bitterness as this warms ... but the coffee flavours increase even more ... oddly for a stout i think this is better from the fridge and as i didnt have other speedways chilled i wonder if i would enjoy them more chilled4.1 (2011) Bottle at home Dec 2015 ... dark black .. thin tan lacing ... dark chcocolate .. soft roast .. light coffee nose ... dark sweet chocolate roast .. soft malts ... big sweet malts... rich roast .. soft malts ... dark chocolate roast ... dark malts.4.0
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jan 2011
at 07:52
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz handbottle pours a flat black with zero head. Nose is nice, aromatic coffee, chocolate, brown sugar, toasted malts. Flavor is sweet, smooth coffee, Kahlua, toasted bread. Medium bodied, roasted finish. I’d love to try this again, seems like the hand bottle hurt the overall experience of this.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Dec 2010
at 15:27
7.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle courtesy of brad (who else?), thank you sir! Pours dark brown, no head, no lacing. Aroma of roasted coffee and coffee grounds. Tastes lke coffee liqueur, no carbonation or other beer characteristics. Maybe some slight bitterness in the finish. Smooth. Strong, and shows it. Interesting.
Tried
from Bottle
on 19 Dec 2010
at 13:11
9.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 10
Texture 10
Overall 9
Rating 3300! DAMN! I don’t drink regular speedway all that often, but when I do it is subtly impressive. There is nothing subtle about this version. IT ROCKS! Pours inky black with a large tan head over a opaque black hole of a body. CRAP [no pun intended]! There is a TON OF COFFEE in the aroma! Grassy nearly. A bit of creamer. Damn, it is so strong. By far the most complex coffee I have ever put my nose too. It is more coffee like than coffee (sounds corny, but wait until you try it!). Wow, flavor is all rich nuances on the coffee theme. Absolutely stunning. What is really shocking is how drinkable it is. I could have this stuff all night. Absolutely no hint of 12.2% whatsoever! Creamy carbonation. Reading over my notes, I count the word "awesome" 11 times if that gives you any hint of how much I like this stuff. The funny thing is that I don’t really drink all that much coffee (as I don’t like hot beverages). This stuff is awesome! Heck of a beer!
Tried
on 12 Mar 2010
at 21:03
9.1/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 9
Flavor 9
Texture 8
Overall 9.5
From tap at the brewery as The Shit, huge thanks to Peter Zien for putting this on. Pours pitch black, creamy and with a chocolate brown and creamy head. Smooth and creamy coffee and roasted malt aroma. Smooth coffee and roasted flavour. Creamy mouthfeel and a light acidic roasted malt touch coming out of this. Lingering dry and roasted malt/coffee finish. Stunning.
Tried
from Draft
on 14 Nov 2009
at 14:32