Newport Storm Cyclone Series Derek
Newport Craft Brewing Co. in Newport, Rhode Island, United States 🇺🇸
Stout - Imperial Regular|
Score
7.00
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pours darkest brown, dark tan head...sweet brown sugar aromas mingled with mocha, almost cappuccino-like....sweet alcohol present as well...taste---baking chocolate cocoa......medium to full palate...hearty yet silky with a bite of bitterness, a lot to take in...defiantly a sipper
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle from alldaydrinker; Nose of chcolate and coffee; clear, yet almost opaque, very dark brown; flavor has light hop bitterness with coffee and some chocolate.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle drunk on 7/8/07, at about 1 year of age.
Dark chocolate body is medium-clear, with a medium-tan head atop that is one finger high and slowly fading to cover, leaving moderate lacing.
All sorts of chocolate notes in the nose hold back much of the roast, while juicy, green hops add a pleasant complexity, despite being your average C-hop and aged 1 year. Some peanut brittle-like oxidation is noted on the end, but remains the only real sign of age, while some very dark coffee notes slowly give way to a more abundant fruitiness, as it warms. Low alcohol warmth and though it is a lighter, more manageable version, I dont think it suffers from this fact and dosent seem thin or washed out in the nose. No flaws that I could find, that’s certainly something new for this brewery and probably points to more aging for their beers being needed.
Chocolate and biscuits collide with a very sweet, marshmallow-vanilla creaminess, while bitter hops and bitter roast are soaked up well by this maltiness and downplayed by the low carbonaion (though it isnt too low). German chocolate cake, splashed with some old coffee about sums up the flavor, but hops continuously evolve and work with some of the fruitiness that emerges with warming to create a modest complexity. Alcohol is not perceived, no flaws. Pretty impressive for a 12 oz, filtered, non-bottle conditioned bottle of its age from this brewery. As with the aroma, there’s only a small amount of flabby, peanut-brittle-like oxidation. Alot like 2 Bros. Northwind Impy in its mellow presentation, though I think this one adds a bit more bitterness.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Nice, an extra in a trade from ClarkVV that came just yesterday. Sat in the closet for a day and fridged for 90 minutes. Pulled out the big boy for this, the Triple Karmeliet large tulip glass. Poured all black with a medium sized tan head that quickly receded into a halo lacing. Aroma is very present - a very weird and oringinal mix, unlike most imperial stouts. Get lots of different elements - vanilla mixed with burnt roastiness mainly appears. Taste is a bit weak expecially for somehting this "extreme" as the label falsely advertises. Mainly get a light burnt roast with no real aftertaste. Medium-light body with average mouthfeel. A light imperial stout in a way. Still definitely imperial but lighter than most.