Peaks and Pints AleSmith Speedway Grand Prix Road Show

Mark your calendars for Halloween! For the second year in row, Peaks & Pints will be a pit stop for AleSmith Brewing’s Speedway Grand Prix on the road. The longtime, San Diego brewery takes their Signature Speedway Grand Prix event on the road, popping up in cities nationwide, including Tacoma. Join us for an epic night filled with eight exclusive Speedway Stout variants and other delicious barrel-aged favorites on draft. We’ll have fun AleSmith beers in the cooler, too. Come out and meet the AleSmith team and get your hands on some Speedway and AleSmith swag (available while supplies last). Save yourself from a night of handing out free sweets to waist-high werewolves — and enjoy a far more grown-up fiendish race to the finish. Howling at the moon optional.

Peaks and Pints AleSmith Speedway Grand Prix Road Show Draft

AleSmith Speedway Stout

12% ABV

Crashing in with an ABV of 12 percent, AleSmith’s Speedway Stout goes a step farther than most coffee-flavored stouts and porters (which derive their flavor from roasted malts) and includes an unspecified amount of ground coffee in the brewing process. The result is an intimidatingly dark beer that pours smoothly, leaves very little head, and is surprisingly light and easy to drink. The coffee flavor dominates: the beer is reminiscent of a freshly brewed iced coffee with hints of chocolate and caramel. It finishes with just a tinge of alcohol, which helps to cut the richness of the flavor and leaves you feeling warm, though whether that’s because of the alcohol or the coffee, we’re not sure.

AleSmith Speedway Stout: Chocolate Raspberry Edition

12% ABV
Brewed for the 2024 AleSmith Speedway Grand Prix, their signature coffee imperial stout is brewed with cacao nibs, raspberries, and coffee.

AleSmith Speedway Stout: Maple Bar Edition

12% ABV

Brewed for the 2024 AleSmith Speedway Grand Prix, their signature coffee imperial stout is brewed with maple syrup, coffee and natural flavors.

AleSmith Speedway Stout: Rocky Road Edition

12% ABV

Brewed for the 2024 AleSmith Speedway Grand Prix, their signature coffee imperial stout is brewed with cacao nibs, roasted almonds, roasted walnuts, Madagascar vanilla beans, coffee, and natural flavors.

AleSmith Speedway Stout: Toasted Coconut Vietnamese Coffee Edition

12% ABV

Brewed for the 2024 AleSmith Speedway Grand Prix, their signature coffee imperial stout is brewed with toasted coconut and Vietnamese coffee.

AleSmith Barrel-Aged Speedway Stout: Coffee Cake Edition

12.67% ABV

AleSmith grabbed their signature coffee imperial stout and aged in it in bourbon barrels with coffee, vanilla, and cinnamon.

AleSmith Barrel-Aged Speedway Stout

13.3% ABV

AleSmith aged their signature coffee imperial stout in premium bourbon barrels for up to one year to create Barrel-Aged Speedway Stout with notes of oak, vanilla, and bourbon adding another level of complexity to this beer’s already massive flavor profile of chocolate, locally roasted coffee, and roasted barley.

AleSmith Pierre Seine

14.8% ABV

Complex with a rich sweet malty presence, significant esters and alcohol. The malt is rich and strong and can have a deep bready-toasty quality with a deep caramel complexity. The fruity esters contain raisin, plum, dried cherry, fig or prune notes. Alcohols are soft, spicy, perfumy, and are low in intensity.

Peaks and Pints 8th Anniversary 3-Day Celebration

PARTY NO. 1: National Cider Month Finale Party and Washington Wild Fundraiser with Schilling Cider, 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, no cover

PARTY NO. 2: AleSmith Brewing Speedway Grand Prix Road Show, 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, no cover

PARTY NO. 3: Peaks and Pints Puniest Beer & Cider Festival, 5 p.m. to close, Friday, Nov. 1, no cover

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