Speedway Stout - Salted Caramel
AleSmith Brewing Company

Pours a brownish black color with a 1F creamy tan head and light filmy lacing.

Smells and tastes of toasted malt, coffee, chocolate, caramel with a salty coffee bitter and boozy warm finish.

Medium heavy with very light carbonation. Lush, syrupy mouthfeel.

This is a Very sweet and strong stout. A desert in a can that amplifies as your glass warms.

 

From the 16 oz can in a snifter. This monster pours a rich obsidian with a
nice head of light brown foam that settles to a thick ring, thin swirling layer,
and sport some nice light lacing. Nose of heavy coffee, rich caramel, subtle
salt, dark cocoa, and moderate char. Flavors follow the nose with light exceptions
with deep roast and char amongst layers of caramel and dark coffee with
dark cocoa on the rear of the taste adding to the bitterness of the malt
with a light dashing of salt. Mouth feel is full, rich, coating,
moderately warming, and finishing with a bitter malt note.

Overall, heavy on the char and caramel....not my favorite of the
Speedway variants but a good splitter.

Cheers

Poured into a Fremont small snifter. Pours a very dark mahogany brown, appearing nearly opaque in the glass with a thin khaki head that dissipates to patches with light lacing. Aroma of dark toasted malt, caramel, dark toasted malt, coffee and a little molasses. Flavor is dark toasted malt, coffee and salted caramel.Bitter caramel coffee finish. Medium bodied with moderate creaminess. Definitely delivers on the salted caramel and has a notably bigger coffee character than other variants. Overall, the caramel is not too overwhelming, but the flavor is rather two note. The salt profile is a bit more noticeable than other "salted" caramel stouts I've had. Interesting for a change, but I think I like a more subdued salt note. The base Speedway is rich and flavorful, usually handling any adjuncts, but this one pushes the envelope a bit.I think a little more integration of flavors would have helped this one.That being said, I rather liked the overall flavor and enjoyed my glass. Uneven, but flavorful.

Canned on: 1-30-26

A - Pitch black pour with dense creamy caramel lacing.

S - Coffee, coffee roast, salty caramel with some sweetness.

T - Coffee forward malt base lies low with sweet caramel over top (that seems artificial at moments). Ends with a lingering bitter caramel sweet residue.

M - Big silky body with lots of pricklies fighting through the thickness.

O - That legendary Speedway Stout coffee malt base pretty much gets steamrolled by sugary sweet caramel.