Newport Storm Cyclone Series Derek

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

EBF 2007: Black pour with a light tan head. Aroma of coffee, chocolate. Flavor, coffee, some chocolate and some roasted malts, bittersweet finish. Decent.

Poured a clear dark mahogany color with a beige head. Sweet malt aroma of chocolate, cola, and roasted malt. the flavor was sweet with a mix of fruit and roasted malt. Milk chocolate in the back. Semi-dry finish with a mild bitterness.

Bottle. Pours reddish amber-black with a small tan head. The molasses in the aroma hit me as I poured it, before I brought it anywhere close to my face. There are also notes of prune, sweet chocolate, a faint hint of espress, and a little bit of orange zest. The flavor is prune, molasses, and pecan. A very mild woody bitterness comes out toward the finish, and lingers into the aftertaste with some pine notes. The sweet malty elements fade pretty fast. The alcohol is detectable after several sips. The mouthfeel is a little on the watery side, especially for an imperial stout.

12 ounce bottle delivered to me by mkgrenwel. thanks! I had had this past summer, but I failed to rate it because it was at a festival. Strange, burnt, purfumey aroma. Light chalky notes with some chocolate are also detected in the nose. This is a pretty weird, floral aroma for an imperial stout. Moderately transparent dark dark dark mahogany color with a mild to moderate hot-chocolate colored head. Sweet, roasty, chocolate maltiness to start. Very very herbal. I wish I knew what that was. It’s like perfumey or herbal essences or some shit. There is a good deal of roastiness here with some light anise later on. I definitely detect some booze as well. I don’t know, this is kind of bizarre and it doesn’t really appeal to me.

Bottle. Pours a translucent almost black body with a fluffy tan head. Aroma has some molasses and roasty malt. Creamy full body. Lots of coffee in the taste and not much else. Maybe some chocolate. Dry espresso finish.

(12oz bottle) Small but significant beige head atop solid black body. Aroma is moderately sweet, milk chocolate, some roast, molasses. Taste is moderately sweet, chocolate, coffee, some roast, grapefruit/earthy. Light alcohol burn. Medium-full body, some creaminess.

Brown sugar. Grainy. Pretty hot and boozy for only 8.7%. Creamy, but slightly over carbonated. A little hint of raisin and plum. Some definite grassy hops with some pineapple. Pretty good hoppy finish. A whole lot of roasty coffee. A little nutty flavor, possibly hazelnut like. Good round chewy mouthfeel. Lingering bitterness in the back. Pretty much everything is in line here. Great complexity. The only negative is that the flavors don’t all fit together quite right. Perhaps some time to blend is all that this needs to be a great beer.

Pours a very dark almost black with some tan/amber highlights and a thin tan fizzy head. Aroma is roasted malts, vanillla and chocolate, but is a bit weak and one-dimensional and isnt as robust as even some lesser abv stouts. Light flavor with a thin body allowing some alcohol thinning to come through, some chocolate hints, light roast and some toasted malts, slightly oxidation and a weak finish. Easy to drink and nothing really offensive though.