AleSmith Brewing Company

Regional Brewery in San Diego, California, United States πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ
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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8/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Poured from 473mL can (a bit dented, but fine; canned 10/13/2025). Dark brown with small light tan head. Apple, cocoa, touch of cinnamon, feint background coffee. Gimmicky, decent, but could see this degrading quickly, best to drink relatively fresh.
Tried from Can on 19 Dec 2025 at 04:45

8.3/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Dark brown. Thin head. Nice chocolatey character, with a mellow vanilla note. Medium body. Medium bitterness, but it's well- balanced because it's not too sweet either. It's actually the barrel that doesn't hit that hard.
Tried from Can on 19 Dec 2025 at 04:26

8.6/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8.5 Texture 9 Overall 8.5
16 oz. can, pours black with a small tan head. Nose is complex, with intense cocoa nibs, light vanilla, and some bourbon barrels. Flavour is super chocolatey and complex, with lots of dark cocoa, subtle bourbon barrels, and a touch of vanilla. Wonderful use of cocoa nibs, and the barrels are used to perfection. Fantastic.
Tried from Can at AleSmith Brewing Company on 19 Dec 2025 at 03:58

8.4/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Poured from 473mL can (pkg 10/15/2025). Dark brown with very minimal tan head. Lots of rich cocoa with bourbon and mild background vanilla. Enjoyable.
Tried from Can on 19 Dec 2025 at 03:46

7.4/10 β€” Appearance 9 Aroma 7 Flavor 7.5 Texture 7 Overall 7
Can at home shared with Laura. Opaque black color, full sized dense dark brown colored head. Aroma and flavor are malts, soft roasty, cocoa powder, sweetish vanilla and slightly bitter. A slight tea influence perhaps? Don't know but overall it's decent.
Tried on 18 Dec 2025 at 22:04

6.3/10 β€” Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Can. Amber beer with a cream head. Malt aroma. Malt and caramel flavor with light nuttiness. Medium bodied. Malt and caramel linger with nuttiness and light lemon.
Tried on 18 Dec 2025 at 18:51

8.8/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 9
Pint can pours with a nice dark colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up a slap to the face in tart blackberry notes with thin ribbons of malts, dark roasted malts and dark roasted coffee well off in the background. The taste delivers a far more balanced experience than the nose was hinting at. I get fairly smooth slick malts and dark roasted coffee blending into dark berries and a berry tangy tartness as well. This is going well together and the sharper berry notes are playing against the smooth richness and roastiness of the base beer. As I'm typing the after taste comes through with addition of tasty chocolate malts. This one works really well.
Tried from Can at AleSmith Brewing Company on 18 Dec 2025 at 04:31

8.3/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
16oz @ 🏑 shared with Phill, Farees, Josh (thx for the beer!), and Ryan.
Aroma: American oak, chcocolate, coffee, some sweetness.
Taste: along the same lines, moderate body, a lot of coffee, with barrel complexity and chocolate coming from MT barrel stock.
Overall: nice and balanced collanb where you can find easily notes from both breweries beers πŸ‘Œ
Tried on 17 Dec 2025 at 06:52

8/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
Inky pour. The aroma has lots of coffee, chocolate. On the palate the speedway seems to dominate, with rich coffee, some alcohol, and the monster’s park richness shows a bit in the finish. A bit more carbonated than I would have expected. Still, very good.
Tried on 17 Dec 2025 at 06:44

6/10 β€” Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 6 Texture 5 Overall 5.5
16 oz. can, pours jet black with a small brown head. Nose is full of allspice, nutmeg, and cinnamon upfront, followed by dark roasted malt and espresso. Flavour is intensely spiced, with intense nutmeg, allspice galore, and cinnamon, followed by roast and some dark espresso. Way too spice-heavyβ€”the allspice and nutmeg are too domineering. Obviously a good base, but the spices ruin this for me.
Tried from Draft at AleSmith Brewing Company on 14 Dec 2025 at 01:48