Newport Storm Hurricane Amber Ale

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

Date: 02/08/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

hazy amber, whispy head that can easily be stirred up, sweet carmel malt aroma, well balanced dry malt flavor with just a hint of sweetness, well balanced and easy drinking

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: *4

Surprisingly good. I’ve had this one in the beer cellar for some time now and finally decided to knock off the state of RI. It poured a typical amber body with a small head. The taste was decent to enjoyable: hops offset by light sweetness of malt.

12oz bottle-pours a big foamy off white head that laces and amber color. Aroma is caramel-medium malt, toast, continental/earthy hops. Taste is caramel-medium malt, toast, flat/metallic/earthy-hops (fuggles?). aftertaste is metallic. An English amber. Mild carbonation.

this is not very memorable. Bland and brown. That’s about it. This is apparently their flagship beer and it doesn’t make me want try the others.

This beer pours a cloudy orange amber color and the head diminishes very quickly. It has a bitter carmel malt aroma with some hops. When you first taste it there is strong hops and is very bitter. As the beer warms up you start to taste some earthy flavors due to the carmel malt and some mild fruits mainly apple.

Pours a slightly hazy orange with a mostly dimishing head that fades to a thin cap. The aroma is heavily caramel, some peat, and light appley hops. The favour too, is mostly caramel malt, with some citrus and earthy flavours to balance it out. The body is medium to thin with soft carbonation. The finish is slightly bitter and metallic with some corn. This is a pretty good amber, and for the price, you can’t complain. This is my local brewery, so this is consistenly bought as our party beer. I feel the spring ale is like an amped up version of this.

Cold 12oz bottle: Pours a hazy dark orange color with a quickly diminished off-white foamy head. Aroma is of malt with some fruit, earth and caramel notes. Taste is of moderate malts, hops, spice, grapefruit and light caramel notes. Light bodied with moderate carbonation. Ending is somewhat astringent and metallic. I think this bottle may be "off". No date on the bottle.

A little skunky, but drinkable. Neither particularly sweet or dry, bitterness isn’t bad, but the character is a little lacking.