Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
16 oz. can, pours jet black with a small tan head. Aroma is full of cinnamon and apple core, with the coffee and roast taking a backseat. Flavour has more of the good coffee and roast base from classic Speedway, with very gentle cinnamon and apple. Far from my favourite Speedway variant, but the adjuncts somehow work well here. Very good.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
bb (18428) reviewed AleSchmidt Oktoberfest from AleSmith Brewing Company 2 months ago
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.
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.
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 👌
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.