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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6.6/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 7 Overall 7
Cremiger, moderat alkoholischer Beginn. Dunkles Malz, angenehme Herbe, Kaffee, wenig Holz und Vanille. Trocken, leicht herb, konstant würzig, langer Nachhall, Schokolade. Vollmundig, Kaffee, langer Nachhall. Könnte etwas weniger Alkohol haben, rund. 10/9/11/11/9/11
Tried from Can on 01 Apr 2026 at 19:35

9/10 Appearance 9 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 9 Overall 9
Pint can pours with a nice dark chocolate colored body that supports a thin ring of dark tan foam. The aroma offers up chocolate malts, coffee and then some thin rye to oak notes. The taste delivers such great balance and depth. Alesmith is the standard to compare to regarding barrel aging beer to attain the right barrel to beer flavor balance. Wow. I get smooth slick dark chocolate followed quickly by dark roasted coffee that's tempered and blended into the maltiness. To midway the barrel character begins to create a pleasing boozy rye twang cutting perfectly against the sweeter richer base beer notes. Wonderful. Typical Alesmith.
Tried from Can at AleSmith Brewing Company on 31 Mar 2026 at 03:38

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 9 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
16 oz can from Alesmith. Nose is chocolate, bourbon, vanilla, and a hint of roast. Black with a bigger, quick dissipating cinnamon tan head. Flavor is lightly sweet with a moderate and appropriate amount of vanilla and bourbon.
Tried from Can at AleSmith Brewing Company on 31 Mar 2026 at 01:40

7.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8 Flavor 7 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Med brown, lots of dark sugar. Big molasses, gingerbread. Decent, that ginger/molasses thing isn’t bad.
Tried on 28 Mar 2026 at 22:43

3.5/10 Appearance 1 Aroma 5 Flavor 4 Texture 1 Overall 4
Looks terrible, pale diarrhea brown, acetone aroma with some stone fruit, tart, acetone, more off than a piece of off flavoured shit.
Tried on 28 Mar 2026 at 17:01

8.1/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8 Texture 8 Overall 8
KKRYGG.Black color with a tan head. Aroma and flavor is roasted malt, alcohol
Tried from Can on 28 Mar 2026 at 08:05

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Nice one, rich and malty, rounded dark character, burnt marshmallows, earth, raisins, cocoa, black coffee. Good stuff.
Tried from Bottle at Craft Beer Junction on 25 Mar 2026 at 20:17

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2026 at 19:23

8.6/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 9 Flavor 8.5 Texture 9 Overall 8.5
Can shared at craft beer junction bermondsey tasting. A thick dark brown black coloured pour with a fading tan head. Aroma is semi sweet earthy meaty roast, coconut, vanilla, toasted coconut, vanilla. Flavour is composed of medium sweet, tangy, bourbon barrel, vanilla, coconut, light tang, alcohol.. Lovely.
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2026 at 19:23

8.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 8.5 Flavor 8.5 Texture 8 Overall 8.5
25th March 2026
Can thanks to Me. Opaque dark brown beer, small and short lived darkish tan head. Smooth and slightly viscous palate, decent fine carbonation. Soft rich dark malts, good dark chocolate. Nicely integrated espresso coffee, comes through stronger on the back end. Bourbon soaked dark fruits. Airy finish. Comes together very well, rich and tasty and very drinkable.
Tried from Can on 25 Mar 2026 at 19:17