Newport Storm Cyclone Series Chloe
Newport Craft Brewing Co. in Newport, Rhode Island, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.41
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours pale orange into a shaker. Small bubbled head with nice retention. Slight chill haze. Citrus and pine notes. Up front citrus/dairy balance with sweet hop finish. Not sure about this one. Imperial taste....but too sweet to really be an IIPA... almost like a barleywine?
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
2006 bottle shared with OldGrowth on 3/5/06
Thick, lightly yellow-flecked white head shows fair retention, but little if any lacing. Liquid is quite clear, and a rosy-coppery orange color, with just a slight more red tones than in most double IPAs. The nose is just a huge burst of heavy floral-resinous hops, quite bitter, with little touches of dry fruits (nectarines, apricots) and some light munich-like malts. Quite one-sided, the malt just comes off as dry/sour, while the hops just bombard you with the aforementioned floral-resin. The flavor is more of the same. Tons of high-alpha acid bitterness, stinging acid on end, dry and unbalanced, with little malt sweetness. Grainy munich malt never seems to be able to balance an already heavily dry, bitter hop assault and this is no exception. Some light breadiness builds as well as a mix of crystal and pale malts, but the hoped-for sweetness as it warms never really appears (some light stickiness is about the extent of it). Moderately watery texture, average carbonation and just not enough malt. White grapefruit and orange rinds build on the end. Alcohol is well-concealed, yeast is not apparent.
Not trying to single out Newport (because almost all brewers do it), but this beer is a prime of example of how hopping the hell out of a beer just dosent cut it. Anyone can throw a ton of hops in to a beer. Russian River, AleSmith and Pizza Port show that a beer can be every bit as hoppy as the next guy, but also balanced and complex.