AleSmith Speedway Stout - Salted Caramel Brownie

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Pint can pours with a deep dark black colored body that supports a thin tan head of foam. The aroma offers up sugary brownie notes, milk chocolate and then a thin hit of roasted malts and dark roasted coffee. The taste begins with classic Speedway goodness with dark roasted malts, nearly oily rich dark roasted coffee and a smooth supple body carrying you to midway. As midway is breached milk chocolate as well as a building sweetness and chocolate brownie sensation begin to overtake the experience. Into the finish luckily there's still lingering dark roasted malts preventing this from falling into an oversweet abyss, from which, there's no return. It does remained balanced but the sweetness and sort of contrived brownie sensation kind of auger this thing off the track.