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Speedway Stout - Vietnamese Coffee
AleSmith Brewing Company
- From:
- AleSmith Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- American Imperial Stout
Ranked #67 - ABV:
- 12%
- Score:
- 99
Ranked #177 - Avg:
- 4.5 | pDev: 6.67%
- Reviews:
- 200
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 02, 2024
- Added:
- Nov 13, 2011
- Wants:
- 530
- Gots:
- 294
This Vietnamese coffee version of Speedway Stout is and continues to be AleSmith's most popular variation of the ever-growing Speedway Stout collection. Since 2012 we have been adding this blend of four Vietnamese coffees, known in Vietnam as cà phê sa đá, to our popular imperial stout. The coffee beans were slowly roasted at low temperatures and then brewed by AleSmith with a traditional phin-style filter that gently percolates water through the ground coffee. The result is an intensely aromatic and bold tasting coffee that complements the notes of chocolate and roast in this massive stout.
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Ratings by mactrail:
Reviewed by mactrail from Washington
3.35/5 rDev -25.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
3.35/5 rDev -25.6%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
On tap at Pizza Port in Ocean Beach. Near black with a fine beige foam in the tall tulip.
Coffee is the main flavor, not surprisingly, but it's more of an intense espresso taste. Which would be okay if it wasn't so goopy and sweet and bitter at the same time. There's a cream flavor plus bitter spice, like old cinnamon. As you sip the bitterness emerges. Very hoppy, very charbroiled, very sugary, and deeply, madly coffee flavored.
After a few sips the whole over-sexed concoction becomes undrinkable. Strictly for those for whom too much is never enough. For me this is one whale I'll leave rotting on the beach.
Oct 29, 2015Coffee is the main flavor, not surprisingly, but it's more of an intense espresso taste. Which would be okay if it wasn't so goopy and sweet and bitter at the same time. There's a cream flavor plus bitter spice, like old cinnamon. As you sip the bitterness emerges. Very hoppy, very charbroiled, very sugary, and deeply, madly coffee flavored.
After a few sips the whole over-sexed concoction becomes undrinkable. Strictly for those for whom too much is never enough. For me this is one whale I'll leave rotting on the beach.
More User Ratings:
Rated by jb_4226 from Texas
4.9/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
4.9/5 rDev +8.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 5
# 135, yum yum!
Oct 29, 2022
Speedway Stout - Vietnamese Coffee from AleSmith Brewing Company
Beer rating:
99 out of
100 with
2011 ratings
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