{"id":1486,"date":"2013-04-30T07:39:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T11:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/beer\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2013-04-30T07:39:42","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T11:39:42","slug":"review-alesmith-speedway-stout-barrel-aged-with-kopi-luwak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/review-alesmith-speedway-stout-barrel-aged-with-kopi-luwak\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Review: AleSmith Speedway Stout (Barrel Aged with Kopi Luwak)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"View 'Alesmith Speedway Stout BA w\/ Kopi Luwak Coffee' on Flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44048128@N00\/8690541435\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"Alesmith Speedway Stout BA w\/ Kopi Luwak Coffee\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7049\/8690541435_17bd992bda_z.jpg?resize=480%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 0px;\">\n<div style=\"display: inline; padding: 0px; font-size: 24px; font-weight: bold; color: #003366;\" title=\"4.3 out of 5.0\">4.3<\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0AROMA\u00a0<\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">9\/10<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a0<\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">5\/5<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0TASTE\u00a0<\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">7\/10<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0PALATE\u00a0<\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">5\/5<\/big>\u00a0\u00a0<small>\u00a0OVERALL\u00a0<\/small><big style=\"color: #999999;\">17\/20<\/big><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><small style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;\"><a style=\"color: #336699; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ratebeer.com\/user\/154569\/\">adamjackson\u00a0(1192)<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Canaan, New Hampshire, USA &#8211; APR 28, 2013<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left; color: #666666; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;\"><\/small><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">Trying this one side by side with the regular Kopi Luwak (non BA)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">A &#8211; Pours thin and not oily, half a finger leather like head. Not as thick as I expected.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">S &#8211; Coyingly sweet nose, lots of vanilla, sort of earthy\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">T &#8211; sweet, vanilla, bourbon is strong at first and then fades to this very nutty earthy coffee taste. i get some heavy leather. I get really fresh toffee\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">M &#8211; Medium body, roasted sweet finish\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5; text-align: left;\">O &#8211; Impressive but I think the bourbon takes away from the exceptional regular Kopi Luwak. The bean is so great and to barrel age this is weird and a bummer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 20px 10px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a title=\"View 'Alesmith Speedway Stout BA w\/ Kopi Luwak Coffee' on Flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44048128@N00\/8691682034\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"Alesmith Speedway Stout BA w\/ Kopi Luwak Coffee\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7056\/8691682034_dfe0fdf295_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left; padding: 20px 10px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5;\"><a title=\"View 'Alesmith Speedway Stout BA w\/ Kopi Luwak Coffee' on Flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/44048128@N00\/8691711998\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" alt=\"Alesmith Speedway Stout BA w\/ Kopi Luwak Coffee\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8542\/8691711998_9591cf09e2_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4.3 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0AROMA\u00a09\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0APPEARANCE\u00a05\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0TASTE\u00a07\/10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0PALATE\u00a05\/5\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0OVERALL\u00a017\/20 adamjackson\u00a0(1192)\u00a0&#8211; Canaan, New Hampshire, USA &#8211; APR 28, 2013 Trying this one side by side with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-12-07T17:07:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"29e3306e-d874-4470-b814-7c0a6734dee7","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-12-07T17:07:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AKeMwbth0RHC4FHwKZzTe5w","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-reviews","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-nY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}