Speedway Stout - Chocolate Raspberry Edition
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.46
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Dark brown, medium head. Raspberry on the palate, sweetish fruity character overtop the big bitter speedway base with all that coffee. Solid.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Draft @ BierCab BCN. Je n'ai pas pu résister à voir deux AleSmith à la pression ... dommage que le minimum était de 25cl. Dégusté avec les conseils judicieux de Manolo assis juste à côté de moi.
Brune foncée quasi noire, col crémeux tenace allant vers le moka avec une belle retenue et un léger filament huileux et doré au verre. Servie cependant un peu trop froide mais nettement mieux après une grosse demi-heure.
Arôme est marqué immédiatement par un savoureux bouquet de framboise, le tout tranche bien avec une base de gros stout qui donne aussi le ton avec pas mal de chocolat/cacao fève, grillé.
Palais reprend l’étiquette qui a fait le succès des gros stouts de AleSmith à savoir le classique du RIS américain d'antan.
Palais est épais et de suite passe sur des notes de grillé, chocolaté, pâte de cacao où l'accord avec la framboise apporte une belle fraicheur fruitée avec une pointe d'acidité et terreuse sans que cela soit dérangeant pour ce gros stout.
L'effervescence est moyenne-faible ce qui rajoute à la saveur du stout. Café/torréfié plutôt discret, fine amertume de fin de bouche et ici un fini qui ne vient pas trop coller aux lèvres comme cela se retrouve sur de gros stouts du même genre.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16oz can from Tavour. Black pour with a sturdy beige head. Aroma is chocolate, roast malts and raspberries. Taste is brown sugar, cocoa, coffee and some raspberrries. Sweet and strong.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8
16 oz can poured, from the mixed 4 pack. Picked up at Special Brews. $21 for this four pack, which is tough to beat for the quality of these imperial stouts. Probably the most intriguing of the pack here for my taste. Dark and dense near black pour. Aroma is as expected, dessert style chocolate and raspberry aroma, with a soft coffee note. Flavor is bold enough to keep the chocolate raspberry less than too sweet. Caramel and coffee hide beneath an ample raspberry constant. Coating cocoa and berry linger. Bold yet smooth and easy drinking for the style. Only thing I can knock a delicious imp flavored stout like this is that I drink it too fast. Very good one here.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Pint can pours with a deep dark chocolate mahogany colored body that supports a tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a load of raspberries that starts bright and becomes more raspberry fruit meat like as well as thin ribbons of dark roasted coffee. The taste delivers an initial burst of raspberry fruitiness that harbors a bright mildly tart fruitiness mixed with thin malt sweetness. To midway the dark roastiness tries to intercede and makes an assertive appearance from time to time. Into the finish the raspberry is still there as well as the dark roasted coffee notes that linger into the after taste. The one knock for this series is 3 of the 4 are on the thin side.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sampled @ Billie's Craft Beer Fest 2024, Friday. Very dark brown beer with a white lacing. Aroma and Taste of raspberries, strong dark malt, chocolate, caramel.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7
Pours black, no head. Scent is mild coffee, raspberry puree. Taste is sharp, raspberry puree and acidity. Milder than expected coffee. Chocolate is lost to me. Fairly thin, lower carbonation. Not bad, but I expected far, far more.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Can. Pours opaque black, small tan head, decent lacing. Strong chocolate covered raspberry Aroma. Light plus sweet, light plus bitter. Full body. Not really doing it. 5,7,6,4,13