Newport Storm 08

Formerly brewed at Coastal Extreme Brewing Company
Style: American Strong Ale
Middletown, Rhode Island USA

Pours brown with a thin off white head. Smells of sweet malt, molasses, sugar, tarte. Tastes sweet and boozy with a grassy, messy cloying finish. I’m losing faith in this series. Over the past few years, it seems like they are just taking whatever malts and hops are left over and laying around and throwing them in and seeing what happens.

Pours a dark opaque brown with a few bubbles, but no real head to speak of. Aroma is a sweet sticky roasted brown sugar with a hint of fruity sour yeast. Flavor is extremely strong brown sugar and caramel with quite an alcohol bite. I don’t like that it is still because I think the carbonation could do a lot to lighten and balance the flavors. An extremely rich, almost creamy texture that finishes with a slightly sour raisin and plum.

Smokey, slightly boozy nose. Sweet and smokey flavor, with the melange of spices they used (vanilla especially) evident in the finish.

brown body with no head.sweet malts,brown sugar,and cotton candy make up the flavor and aroma.body is thin and watery.

Brown, no head. Aroma is malty, caramel, alcohol, faint chocolate. Taste is caramel, light smoke, toffee. Watery for 12%.

22 oz cobalt blue galss bottle from AllDayDrinker. Nose of coffee, chocolate, and ahuge amout of aoky vanilla. Dark brown with a small beige head. Flavor of caramel, oak, toffee, and heavy vanilla; very vanillay and sweet.

Bottle, thanks to WeeHeavySD for sharing. Pours a clear brownish-red with an off-white ring. Rich aroma, of malt, booze, dark fruits, and wood. Big taste, similar to the nose, sweet, with a lot of alcohol. Lingering rich alcohol flavors. Very nice, will probably even be better after it’s aged a bit.

I picked up this bottle after a fellow hombrewer gave it to me in Warren RI-from Patriot Wine and Spirits. There was a blub next to it claiming "a big oatmeal cookie" Corked. NICE! Big pop with smoke evolving from rim A: Licorice, boozy. Plum and fig notes. AP: Dark and murkey. Unfiltered? Split with three friends and last pour held up sediment--must be bottle conditioned--carbonation seems perfect! Fl: Background molasses and raison--certainly tried to be an oatmeal cookie for sure! Hints of vanilla. P: interesting..lots of levels here--will need some time t oage for sure! I like where it is heading though OI: Needs time...lay it down. But really unique now and worth a try!