Speedway Stout Grand Prix MMXXIV: Chocolate Raspberry Edition
(Batch of Speedway Stout - Chocolate Raspberry Edition)
AleSmith Brewing Company in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Pastry / Flavoured - Imperial Series|
Score
7.47
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Imperial Stout with cacao nibs, raspberries, and coffee
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16 oz. can, pours jet black with a small light brown head. Aroma has plenty of raspberry, medium roast, and gently earthy coffee. Flavour is cohesive, with plenty of roast, gentle cocoa, and nicely integrated raspberry. Really good infusion of raspberries. Excellent.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can thanks to Jerry aka Jamie: Poured a black oil slick, with no head. Aroma is light chocolate, waxy raspberry, roasted malt. Taste is cocao nibs, raspberry, roasted malts, coffee.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Canned 10/10/24, shared by tfontana on 6/14/25. Thanks, Tom.
Clear, dark. Small, tan head.
Not sugary, though quite a bit of raspberry extract or concentrate. Some earthy, nutty, lightly chocolatey cacao, but low stout character otherwise. No booze.
Bitter raspberry, seedy and juicy, tasteful, with excellent dark chocolate. Light roast, rich malt and good attenuation. Yeah, this is the Speedway I know and love. No alcohol anywhere. Not sure what happened with the horchata, but we're back on track.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16 oz can shared by tfontana, thank you Tom. Aroma is big raspberry and mild coffee. Flavor must be a purée or from concentrate because it’s a lot of raspberry. Mild chocolate and coffee without a question. Some lingering coffee.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Can (10/10/24) from Whole Foods, Sherman Oaks. Opaque dark brown with ring of head, nice viscosity, no lacing. Aroma is earthy, roasted malt, chocolate, late light raspberry. Taste follows aroma with more pronounced raspberry, late coffee. Smooth texture, soft carbonation, no sign of alcohol, moderately bitter finish. More subdued than I'd expect. Coffee only present maybe in bitter finish.
10/10/24 thanks Tom aroma is chocolate, raspberry, light coffee. Taste follows, abv is hidden.
Chocolade en fruit, doet mij denken aan die ouderwetse kersenbonbons,deze combinatie is ok, alleen dan wel in snoep, minder als biercombi --- Beer merged from original tick of Raspberry Chocolate Speedway (2023) on 08 Nov 2024 at 17:46 - Score: 7. Original review text: Moah
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 6.5
Black with a medium sized foamy brown head. Roasty with anise, coffee, raspberry and a hint of smoke. Very long finish. Full body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8.5
Can. Black beer with a brown head. Chocolate and coffee aroma. Chocolate and raspberry flavor with light coffee. Medium-plus bodied. Chocolate and raspberry linger with light coffee.
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.