Newport Storm 08

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

( 750ml bottle, courtesy of jkwalking05 ) Pours a dark amber body with a spare beige head. Aroma of cherry, oak, brandy, chocolate, vanilla, and pine. Flavor of raisins, caramel malt, some molasses, medicinal, and cardboard with a dry mouthfeel and cloying finish. Blah…

Bottle... Lightly hazed crimson ale with a small, creamy, off-white head. Decent retention. The ultra-vinous and spicy nose provides notations of cinnamon, tawny port, molasses and all sorts of other tropical and fuzzy fruits. Medium to full-bodied with modest carbonation. Flavorwise, we’re talking medicinal and very, very sweet. No semblance of balance... cloying. Bitter-sweet (more sweet than bitter) finish with only a whisper of tartness. <b>Thanks go out to Beerlando for popping the top on this baby!</b>

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.

Frankenstein. A kitchen sink, by their own admission of many malts lying ebout plus some mild hops. There is some chocolate malts but that gives it only background flavour. It starts with a bit of bubbles on dark brown that disappear to no head. This, remember, is absolutely freshly delivered to my friend Vaino at the store from the plant on request. The smell is barnyard, must, sweat. Hours later, it is chocolate and cleaning fluid, but I still could not drink more than a few ounces.Sorry, its too many ideas none which take leadership or give it taste worth drinking.There is enough malt to give the mouthfeel substance. ANybody want the second bomber to make a second opinion? Maybe in 3 years?

300th big beer rating, 9th raing of this big old american strong. Bottle via trade. Pours deep brown with a tan quarter finger head. Nose is sweet and astringent, big booze in there. Taste is very sweet with lots of molasses. The alc is big in the nose but to me is limited in the taste. This is much better than the ratings would suggest, yeah its big and yeah its boozy, but less so than most would guess. Gotta say the taste is nice, and palatte ain’t bad I am going to buck the trend here. I like this big old monster.

Bottle thanks to jkwalking05. Pours with a minimal head and a hazy brown body. Aroma of alcohol, raisin, cherry and fig. Taste is raisin, fig, caramel, molasses, madeira, and alcohol. Thick and syrupy mouthfeel with a decent amount of heat.

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.

A lightly hazy, crimson colored body is topped with a tiny, beige colored film. A soapy wash leaves minimal spotting behind on the glass. The aroma is all over the map, everything from bittersweet cocoa, tart raspberry, and smoked dark fruits to cinnamon, raisins, and vanilla liquor all throwing their two cents into the mix. The result isn’t something incredibly complex, but rather something muddled and misguided. Flavors are equally unimpressive, overly sweet caramel and smoky molasses accompanied by raisins, figs, tart berries, and searing, boozy, alcoholic notes. Thick and syrupy on the palate, the cloyingness is just too much to bear, and the alcoholic burn certainly doesn’t help. What on earth were they trying to do here?