Barrel-Aged Speedway Stout: Islander Joy Edition
AleSmith Brewing Company
- From:
- AleSmith Brewing Company
- California, United States
- Style:
- Imperial Pastry Stout
- ABV:
- 14.3%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.13 | pDev: 3.87%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- May 23, 2026
- Added:
- Nov 14, 2025
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- 0
- Gots:
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This barrel-aged stout blends Tahitian vanilla, Vietnamese coffee, and creamy coconut with flavors and aromas of rich chocolate. Silky and decadent, it's like a chocolate-coconut treat in a glass, smooth, indulgent, and full of layered flavor.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Falcon91Wolvrn03 from California
4.2/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.2/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Look - Pours a super dark brown/black color with a nice brown head that goes away after about a minute.
Smell - Smells of Mounds bar (coconut and chocolate), with light coffee and vanilla. Fairly nice!
Taste - Taste isn't as good as the smell to me. Dry, with bourbon, coffee, and very light Mounds bar.
Feel - A bit on the bitter/dry side for my liking. I could feel the 14.3%ABV.
Overall - The taste lacked the nice Mounds scent I got in the nose, and emphasized the bourbon and coffee more, which came across on the bitter side for me.
May 23, 2026Smell - Smells of Mounds bar (coconut and chocolate), with light coffee and vanilla. Fairly nice!
Taste - Taste isn't as good as the smell to me. Dry, with bourbon, coffee, and very light Mounds bar.
Feel - A bit on the bitter/dry side for my liking. I could feel the 14.3%ABV.
Overall - The taste lacked the nice Mounds scent I got in the nose, and emphasized the bourbon and coffee more, which came across on the bitter side for me.
Reviewed by maximum12 from Minnesota
3.83/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
3.83/5 rDev -7.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3.5
Another one of dozens (hundreds?) of unique Speedway variants as AleSmith works to milk all it can from a winner. 16 oz. can.
Pour: black. Foam crinkles to a solid line around the rim with a few sparkly islands in the middle. Smells like chocolate cake. Barrel MIA; hoping for it in the taste.
Barrel Aged Speedway Stout: Islander Joy does reflect my distant memories of an Almond Joy (before I realized I didn’t like solid coconut). Barrel Aged Almond Joy? /review. Chocolate swirls in the background & it’s heavy, even considering the ABV. One of the few stouts I’ve had lately that didn’t have me shouting “bring on another, bitch!”
Good, solid brew.
May 01, 2026Pour: black. Foam crinkles to a solid line around the rim with a few sparkly islands in the middle. Smells like chocolate cake. Barrel MIA; hoping for it in the taste.
Barrel Aged Speedway Stout: Islander Joy does reflect my distant memories of an Almond Joy (before I realized I didn’t like solid coconut). Barrel Aged Almond Joy? /review. Chocolate swirls in the background & it’s heavy, even considering the ABV. One of the few stouts I’ve had lately that didn’t have me shouting “bring on another, bitch!”
Good, solid brew.
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