Newport Storm Hurricane Amber Ale

Brewed by Coastal Extreme Brewing Company
Style: Amber Ale
Middletown, Rhode Island USA

Draught. Pours a dark amber color with a small head. Nose is mild but displays toasted malts, caramel and earthy tones. Initial taste is bready with small amounts of caramel sweetness topped with some spices. Mid palate displays a mild citrus. Finishing with average duration and balancing hop bitterness. There is nothing special about this amber ale.

Bottle... Poured burnt orange with a thin head. Toasted malt and citrus on the nose. Foamy palate and lots of citrus flavors with leafy malt and a chalky alcohol presence. Pretty easy to drink, about as good is this style could probably get. Amber ales are like the wine coolers of beer.

Poured into a white plastic hotel cup (so no appearance rating). Aroma of lightly roasted malts and faint cheddar. The taste is reminiscent of a cracker with a dose of blunt hops. Medium body. Slightly bitter and medium lived aftertaste. Enjoyable, but breaks no molds.

bottle courtesy of jjpm74.
Pours a cloudy amber with a smallish, short lived head. Smell is sticky, malt with a bit of a guaze-like odor to it. Taste is mainly malty again with the band-aidy like sweet flavor. Medium bodied and drinkable, but hindered from the possibly unintended malty flavor.

2-8-08 bottle
Cloudy amber with thin quick head. Smell is pale lager crap with some water undertones too. Flavor is medicinal - like licking a bandaid covered in neosporin. Palate is average and watery and thin. Not something I really want again.

Bottle served in pint glass: Hazy golden hue (appears bottled conditioned) with a fading fluffy head and spotty lace. The aroma has a grainy, cardboardy, veggie, syrupy, caramel, and herbal note. The taste profile just is a mess, cardboardy and wet grains along with some cabbage and mineral water character. There is some light bitterness and metallic notes of the finish. Just not a very refreshing beer and is below average in a style that is below average to begin with. (methinks this is not the same quality as back in 2003-04)

12 oz. bottle courtesy of Alldaydrinker. Pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small fizzy diminishing beige head. The aroma is sweet caramel malt with some spicey fruitiness. Decent, but typical amber flavor. Caramel malt, slight bitterness, a little spicey fruit. Light/medium bodied and very easy to drink. I could session this with no problem.

pours a copper with little to no head, not much carbonation. malt whisky aroma, sweet mild vanilla oxidized presence with dry front of mild oakiness to a mild finish. good aftertaste of mild light whisky.