Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Can with Roman M at Drinkøteka, thx! Pitch black body, tan head. Cocoa, caramel, and heaps of coffee in the aroma. Smooth, creamy and yet dry enough taste, bitter, cocoa nutty, coffee, bit herbal, ending with a good level of bitterness. Not life-changing, refreshingly bitter, a good one.
Irishboy (4674) reviewed Forged Theory from AleSmith Brewing Company 1 month ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 7.5
16oz can from Alesmith. Nose is chocolate, vanilla, bourbon, without much of the coffee notes I usually find in Alesmith’s imperial stouts. Black with a medium cinnamon tan head. Flavor is moderately sweet with a lot of flavor from the 32 months in Willett Bourbon Barrels. Nice traditional bourbon barrel stout with no pile of adjuncts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8.5 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 9 | Overall - 9
Pint can pours with a clear brown mahogany copper hued body that supports a thin off white head of foam. The aroma offers up woodiness and booze to start and then reveals plum like fruity esters that might also be part of the rum character. The taste is straight up oak like woodiness bleeding into plum to raisin and then sweeter boozier rum like sherry and brown sugar character. The woodiness and booze are the defining notes but this does round out into a really nice sipper. Yes.
Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
16oz can from Alesmith. Nose is oak, vanilla caramels, toffee, biscuits, and a hint of bourbon. Very dark, obscure except on the edges, hazy brown with a medium tan head. Flavor is lightly sweet with a smoothness I find in really expensive wheated or rye whiskey.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
16oz can from Alesmiths. Nose is coffee, cocoa, roast, and nuts. Black with a big cinnamon colored head. Flavor is light sweetness contrasting with a background bit of bittersweet chocolate along with the nuts.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured a black brown with a thin light brown creamy head. Aroma is chocolate, cocoa, nutty, pecan, roasted malts. Taste is rich roasted malts, chocolate, pecan, nutty.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured a black with a ring brown heads. Aroma apples, cinnamon, roasted malts, little artificial flavored. Taste is apple, cinnamon, roasted malts.
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
The toasted coconut is not a net gain on the regular Speedway. Plenty of coffee still, some dark chocolate, roast. Pours black and oily with mocha head. Bitter end with some caramel. Oilier than your typical Speedway. Can.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured a deep black with a thin beige head. Aroma is bananas, malty, roasty. Taste is banana, roasted malts, chocolate, bitter.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Can: Poured dark brown black with ring brown head. Aroma is roasted malts, chocolate, blackberry. Taste is roasted malts, chocolate, fruity, blackberry, boozy.