AleSmith Brewing Company

Regional Brewery in San Diego, California, United States 🇺🇸
Associated with 2 Venues

Established in 1995

Contact
9990 AleSmith Ct., San Diego, CA, CA 92126, United States
Description
AleSmith is an American microbrewery that specializes in wide variety of handcrafted ales. AleSmith brewer was founded in 1995 by Skip Virgilio and Ted Newcomb in San Diego, California. AleSmith beers are known for their deep and complex quality of beers, high alcohol content and strong hoppy flavors. For this reason, AleSmith brewery has a wide appeal to microbrew and hoppy beers enthusiasts. Over the years, AleSmith brewery has won numerous medal awards from different national and international competitions. Currently, AleSmith brewing company is under the management of successful home brewer, Peter Zien. AleSmith brewery producers more than 15 types of beers nationally and internationally.

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NYTTÅR 2025. Black color with a brown head. Aroma and flavor is alcohol , bourbon, pine, cocoa, spices, roasted malt,coffee.
Tried from Can on 31 Dec 2025 at 09:23

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NYTTÅR 2025. Black color with a brown head. Aroma and flavor is roasted malt, vanilla, coffee, chocolate, coconut, fruit.
Tried from Can on 31 Dec 2025 at 08:30

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Can 2025-12-30 Göteborg
AR: peanut , dry, roasted malt, semi sweet - was expecting more Reese here;(
AP: dark brown, wee cream beige lid
F: peanut , dry, roasted malt, semi sweet
Tried from Can on 31 Dec 2025 at 08:25

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Dark roasted and sweet malty with notes of opulent chocolate, some coffee roast, dark molasses, brown sugar sprinkle, full bodied, sweet and dark roasted malty finish
Tried from Draft at Peders - Pisserendens ølkælder on 30 Dec 2025 at 19:14

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Vintage 2015. Ten years old bottle. Coz tu mamy najpierw oprawa, pieknie malowana i zdobiona recznie butelka. Szkoda ze nie bedzie etykiety, no ale teraz moze wyglad. Piwo po przelaniu 1 trzeciej do sniftera prezentuje sie dobrze, moglo i lepiej, piana jest srednia i sredniej trwalosci, przy 10 letnim piwie nawet srednia trwalosc tej bialo bezowej pianki to juz osiagniecie niemale. Barwa burgundowa, sliwkowo brazowa z lekka metnoscia. Wiekszosc zostala nieodklejona na dnie solidnego i grubego szkla. Aromat. Daktyle, sliwka z pestka swiezo po jej otwarciu, nieco ziemistosci, czy jakby powiedziec ziemniakow. Smak. Karmelowy, wisniowo sliwkowy, troche deserowo palony, cos jak creme brulie przygniecione chochla powidel sliwkowych z Szydlowa. Cierpkie i palone, na sam koniec wytrawne i palone wykonczenie. Reasumujac, piwo intensywne i niebywale zlozone, pol wytrawne, szlachetne i doskonale do starzenia. Za 5 lat bylo by podejrzewam jeszcze bardziej wyrafinowane.
Tried from Bottle at Kufle i Kapsle - Nowogrodzka on 30 Dec 2025 at 17:23

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Can from Colonial in Acton. Pitch black. Nose is coconut, caramel, cinnamon. Flavor is vanilla, cinnamon, with a lot of bitter spices. Dry and spice finish. Nice.
Tried on 30 Dec 2025 at 00:48

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Too many variations of this on here. Bottle picked up online from a London based shop the name of which escapes me. Dark copper colour. Slim dense lasting tan foam. Sweet malts and sweet dried vine fruit. Big cake mix thing. Batter and everything. Taste is sweet and fruity with a nicely vinous bitterness. Slick and well boned. Fruity vinous finish still keeps that cake mix sweetness. Lovely gear in way better condition than I’d anticipated.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Dec 2025 at 21:28

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Typical barley wine aromas. Malty, some plumb and raisins. Almost totally flat. But not too bad for all of that.
Tried from Bottle on 28 Dec 2025 at 03:09

8.5/10 Appearance 7 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 9.5 Texture 8 Overall 9.5
Can from Tavour. Pours clear dark brown with a transient tan head. Aroma of caramel, bourbon, red grapes and vanilla. Arguably full bodied. Port wine is surprisingly in the taste lead, but bourbon, caramel and oak astringency come quickly after. Heat must be sought to be found. It's deadly drinkable. Excellent.
Tried from Can from Tavour on 28 Dec 2025 at 01:47

7.5/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 7.5 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7.5
thanks fonefan! Pitch black colour, small brown head. Aroma is liquorice, chocolate, some roasted tones with mild toasted and coffeeish tones. Flavour is toasted toffee, chocolate, some coffee, mild roasted tones with some dried fruits and mild rye-like elements.
Tried from Can on 27 Dec 2025 at 19:39