Newport Storm Cyclone Series Quinn
Newport Craft Brewing Co. in Newport, Rhode Island, United States 🇺🇸
Porter Series|
Score
6.28
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The Cyclone Series’ first foray into barrel aged beers is nothing short of unique. With our rum distillery in the same building that we make our beer in, it only made sense we would choose to age a beer in rum, not whisky or bourbon, barrels. After over a year of testing and experimenting, we created an inky black porter to carefully age in our Thomas Tew Rum barrels. After just the right amount of aging, the resulting beer is a bold and roasted porter balanced with oak, butter, spice, and rum notes from the barrel aging process.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Poured into a mug, the appearance was a dark amber/brown color with a finger’s worth of quickly dissipating semi-foamy head. Lace was sliding.
The aroma had some milk chocolate, roast, marshmallow and alcohol.
The flavor was sweet mainly through the prior mentioned aromas, roastiness was somewhat there, but super faint. Aftertaste was pretty boozy. Finish was boozy and sticky.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with not much sessionability about it - that booziness seems to hit bit more than expected. Carbonation felt fine.
Overall, that marshmallow in this combined with the booziness which the more I think about it, the more it seemed excessive.
The aroma had some milk chocolate, roast, marshmallow and alcohol.
The flavor was sweet mainly through the prior mentioned aromas, roastiness was somewhat there, but super faint. Aftertaste was pretty boozy. Finish was boozy and sticky.
The palate was between light and medium bodied with not much sessionability about it - that booziness seems to hit bit more than expected. Carbonation felt fine.
Overall, that marshmallow in this combined with the booziness which the more I think about it, the more it seemed excessive.
Tried
on 03 Jun 2017
at 20:29
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
picked up bottle since i figured needed to grab at least 1 RI brew while in providence. pours dark brown with boozy nose and small head. tastes of rum, rootbeer, cherry, and coffee. pretty good carbonation and not too thick. i rather enjoyed it
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2011
at 14:47
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6
12oz bottle thanks to AirForceHops
Appearance: Pours dark brown with a big beige head and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, woody and caramel
Taste: Sour malts, leather and bitter
OK
Appearance: Pours dark brown with a big beige head and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Toasted malts, woody and caramel
Taste: Sour malts, leather and bitter
OK
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Jul 2011
at 23:08
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz Bottle. It’s an ok barrel-aged porter. Weak oak nose with some caramel. Large bubbly head that dies real quick. Very light rum taste in front of malt and oak. Somewhat one-dimensional providing this porter is aged in rum barrels. But it’s not a terrible brew. Just straight forward and simple. ok
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Jul 2011
at 17:28