AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
adamjackson (1298) – Canaan, New Hampshire, USA – MAY 31, 2013
T – Well, it’s most certainly a speedway stout. Big chocolate and roasted coconut along with some vanilla. The coffee is good but it’s very old, tannic, acidic, bitter and sort of like cough syrup in the middle and finish. This alone is a turn off. Everything else about speedway really shines but the coffee used in this actually takes away from a great stout.
M – Heavy body, low carbonation (of course due to leakage). Dry and stringent boozy finish.
O – It’s easy to get caught up in hype and the fact I’m reviewing this as it’s currently #50 on the top beers list for RateBeer. Don’t misunderstand, it’s a great tasting stout but it’s not a top 50 stout. A solid 4 but I just can’t rate it higher and it could be the coffee type used but it is a coffee stout so I guess that’s part of the problem. Coffee bean taste profiles are like beer…coffee geeks love a certain bean and hate the other and this one just doesn’t work for me.
