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
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.