Newport Storm 03

Formerly brewed at Coastal Extreme Brewing Company
Style: Doppelbock
Middletown, Rhode Island USA

I found this over at Marty’s in Boston. It’s the s***. The beer that is. It’s like mal-ass-es in my glass and creamy, bittery, and with like wine fruitness to the tasste. The pound of malt is surely the cause of both the color and the flavor. A really wonderful one of a kind beer.

So, I got this a month ago at a large chain liquor store on Cape Cod and have been saving it for my fellow beer snob friends. Last night I finally got a chance to get over to their place and lo and behold, they didn’t have a wine opener. Crappy crap crap crap. BTownBrewer ended up getting it open with a screw and a pair of pliers. The beer was wonderful as expected. Huge bready/molasses aroma, deep lush flavor. I did buy a bunch more bottles of this that I found today in a small liquor store in Western Massachusetts. If you want more info on the beer, check out Beermatrix’ rating. It was so wonderfully written that I can’t improve upon or add anything to what he wrote.

Caramel colored pour, settles very dark mahogany with a murky glow of dark orange around the edges. Thin and loosely bubbled, wet sand colored cap sits briefly, keeps a slender collar at the rim. Slow dripping spotty lace. What’s this wonderful smell? Hmm...Gorgeous waft of molasses and caramel with a mighty play of port like nuances bringing in all sorts of deep and lush chocolate covered dark tropical fruits of raisin, plum, and starfruit and then there’s ethanolic heat seeping around the corners too. Uff-da! Wow! Tangy and rich, warm and inviting, succulent and dense with alot O’ malts. Lots! The taste brings in a whole nother beast it seems; very tangy and sweetly dark tropical fruits are very dominant from front to back of raisin and plum with a slight roasted twinge coming through in certain aspects. The finish is remarkably complex with chocolate drizzling over the fruity malts and a port deepening heat drying it out. Which lets in some fine finishing spice and dry tangyness that just melts and sticks to back of the palate. Wow, nice finish. Port like with a speckle of Imperial stout in its character. Feel is darkly sweet and richly tangy with malts, nearly full body, quite thick, middle is syrupy that floats off into the finish where dark and dry choclatey things appear and cover some of the malty sweetness but never enough, that fruit stuff just keeps poppin’ through. This is a really interesting concoction to say the least. A nice brew to behold. I keep thinking its an Imperial Stout crossed with a Baltic Porter inbreeded with a Doppelbock or even an Eisbock. Who cares? You’ll be swimming in malts either way you look at it. Yum!

750 ml corked, cobalt blue bottle. Pours to a murky, caramel color, with no head, and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer is excellent, with deep aromas of sweet, nutty, and toasty malt aroma, paired with hints of peppery alcohol. The palate is rich, soft, and full on the tongue, with an oily mouth feel on a sea of smooth malt flavor. Sweet malt, toasted malt, and hints of malted milk chocolate coat the tongue. Newport Storm ’03 finishes with more of those wonderful sweet malt flavors up front, then ends with a warming, soothing, alcohol burn that lingers. Impressive beer, with a fantastic showcase of malt aroma and flavor, on a rich, smooth, body. Stylistically, not what I would call a classic example of dopplebock, but a really well done, rich, delicious malty lager. At 11.9% abv, this is a beer to sip and savor, and one to enjoy after a meal, or as a night cap. Sedimented with yeast, this beer continues to condition, and I think three years of age, as taken some of the cloying edge off this beer, but it is still a very rich, very malty beer. I love the malt character of this one, but it still might be too malty for some.

Aged 5 years. Pours a solid clay-colour with absolutely no head, even when aggrevated. Smells of malted-milk balls and heavy malt with some ethanol piercing through. There is definitely fruity notes on the nose, too. The taste is rich in chocolate, licorice, dark pitted fruits. Hardly any alcohol in the taste. The mouthfeel is slick and silky. It really sticks to the back of the mouth, though the residence time of the flavour isn’t as long as the 02’. So smooth. Almost no carbonation. Kudos to Npt Storm.

When you pour it there is not much of a head to it. but there is a very dark appearance to it. there is a hint of malted milk balls and chocolate and then a taste of cherry right after it slides down your throat. this is a very complex beer and has a variety of flavors that hit your palate at different times and makes it enjoyable it is depressing that they do not make this anymore

First Off, I really enjoyed this brew. It has been aged now 5 years, 1 year in the brewery and 4 outside. Poured a nice dark caramel brown colour. The aroma was fascinating with smells of plum, chocolate, and figs. Pours almost no head.The taste, alcohol is there, with a nice caramel, slightly dark fruity, the aftertaste, back of the palate was pure chocolate. A very interesting and enjoyable brew.

RBSG 2007. Hellomynameis… what a guy! Dark brown color with no head. Strong, salty malt aroma. Great taste of sweet malt, salted pork… it is very much a coastal brew. Thick and sweet. Great!