Newport Storm Cyclone Series Kim

Brewed by Coastal Extreme Brewing Company
Style: Oktoberfest/Märzen
Middletown, Rhode Island USA

Bottle… Clear orange lager with a small, fizzy, white head. The aroma is a touch floral, but notes of honey and toffee really shine through. Medium to full-bodied with an oily mouthfeel and modest carbonation. The flavor is mainly sweet toffee and caramel, but well-bittered for balance. Hearty, malty finish. Thanks go out to growler for sharing the bottle!

My Bottom Line:
This lean Märzen is full of bready cereals from nose to finish, diversified by only a few herbal hops notes and fruity angles.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam skirts the transparent amber.
-Why is 7.8% alcool necessary for such a simple and quenching brew?
-The malts develop light caramel as well.
-The lean body is made for high drinkability. But with almost 8% alcohol, this is pretty treacherous.

Bottle.

Pours copper and hazy with a nice white head. Smells of toasted malt, dry, crisp, some caramel on the finish. Decent.

Thanks to Tom for this one. Light amber color with a smaller off-white head. Heavy malt aromas, has a heaviness to it. with caramel, toffee, light fruit, and dough, with a bit of herbal hops in the background. Quite sweet to start, nearly syrupy. Malt works it way back into play until I’m finally at peace with mildly toasted malt and light caramel in the finish. A bit heavy, but flavorful in the finish which has a lot of redeeming qualities. A nice fall style brew.

Bottle: Poured a deep amber color lager with a medium foamy head with average retention and some lacing. Aroma of sweet malt with a nice dose of cereal notes with light floral undertone. Taste is heavier then expected with a malt heavy backbone, light sweetness with nice fresh floral cereal aftertaste. Body is quite full with good carbonation and no apparent alcohol. Very well done and heavier then most example I have tried from this style.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of my brother, who brought me down a six-pack from Rhode Island. Pours a hazy antique gold with a moderate linen white head that lasted through the first third of the glass and left just a bit of lace. Light aroma of malt with a touch of fruiti. Flavor is predominantly malt with just a bit of breadiness and light bitterness at the finish. Nothing exciting, but no problems either.

12oz Bottle. Interesting raw grain, wheat berries, and Munich malt aroma. Very rich and volatile. Colored even orange, with a golden fringe, Kim is shrouded in a thin veil of non-virgin white. Surging onto the palate Kim’s flavors leave a wake of fresh apple, light molasses syrup, and a bit of mixed cereals. Chewy. The body is satisfying, but crisp from some hops, and complex from alcohol. The lagering is fine and the higher alcohols add some nuance to this beer. Enjoyable.

Ah Kim…Never dated a Kim but I shall drink her. A golden amber colored lass that is begging to be sipped. The aroma is sweet malt with a touch of corn and metallic notes. Not great but not too off from what a usual Oktoberfest smells like for me. Not a bad taste, though I can already get some oxidization out of this one, not sure how old this one is. Outside of that, I get the usual malty presence with, again, a touch of metallic which to me seems like all lagers of this type have. Touches of musty grain caramel are there as well. Kim is inoffensive but not a great drink. Body is medium and is what you would expect from a Marzen. Fair. Thanks for the trade!