Newport Storm 06

Bottle shared by shigadeyo. Poured clear copper color with a minimal off-white frothy head that mostly diminished with minimal lacing. Moderate prune, sweet malt and alcohol aroma. Medium to full body with a smooth texture and flat carbonation. Medium to heavy sweet flavor with a medium to heavy sweet finish of moderate to long duration. I would and did share this with a freind.

2006 Vintage

8/20/2009: Newport Storm ’06... Aroma: Toasty malt, really nice caramel, great malt presence in the nose. Appearance: Shiny caramelized sugar color, pretty much transparent, very mild carbonation. Flavor: Sweet, nice level of caramelized and citrusy orange, a bit of oxidation, good alcochol showing through; suble English or Black Walnut... Scatch that -- Hazelnut! No alcohol in the flavor, but it is slightly warming. Palate: Overall: Very, very nice. DRINK NOW! It’s just about as good as it will probably get... Really nice caramel maltiness without being heavy; the oxidation works very well with this beer; extremely drinkable.

1 pt and 9.4 oz. corked bottle ྫ.9% abv) from jjpm74 via trade April 2007. Thanks John! Rating #88 for this beer.

Bottle. Cloudy orange amber pour with no head. Aroma of vanilla and malt. Taste of caramel, alcohol, hops and faint pepper. Thick, full body as with most barley wines. Tart finish. Not bad, but a bit disappointed since I saved this for a special occasion.

Bottle on 11/30/2008 at the 3rd Annual Richmond Industry Gathering. Hazy caramel body with a small off-white head. Bready, toasty caramel aroma. Sweet caramel and toffee flavor. Medium full body with low carbonation.

Bottle, thanks to alexanderj for bringing this back from rhode island, to virginia, to socal, to norcal. This bottle has traveled more of the US than most americans. On to the real stuff. Deep orange pour, no head or activity. Aroma is sweet caramel and peppery alcohol. Flavor is the same, pretty syrupy. Not very flavorful.

Bottle courtesy of mine and golubj s trip to Rhode Island and Boston. We got this in Rhode Island at Nikki’s Liquor. Aroma smells eerily similar to the Barrel Aged Levuds from The Bruery. Aroma of sweet, sugary malt, fruit and caramel. Flavor was perhaps better than that beer, as it was not extremely sweet. However, it was sweet with caramel, fruit, earth and a very light bitterness in the finish. Alcohol was well hidden, but it still was pretty rich, to the point of being syupy..

VRBT. Light orange appearance. Bready rich caramel aroma. Flavor has some nice chocolates, brandy, molasses, and straight up wert. Good stuff.

Cloudy copper, no head. Honey, earthy British hops and dusty,, aged malt in the nose. Sweet flavor, light bourbon, UK hops, honey, toffee and medium bitterness. Medium bodied with soft carbonation. Ok.