Newport Storm Rhode Island Blueberry
Newport Craft Brewing & Distilling Co.
- From:
- Newport Craft Brewing & Distilling Co.
- Rhode Island, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
Ranked #475 - ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- 77
Ranked #37,897 - Avg:
- 3.37 | pDev: 19.29%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 66
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 23, 2022
- Added:
- Jun 19, 2006
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 26
SCORE
77
Okay
77
Okay
Our Rhode Island Blueberry Beer is a crisp, refreshing Kolsch style ale made with fresh blueberries from local Rhode Island Farm, Schartner Farms in Exeter, RI! The prominent blueberry aroma that first meets the nose translates into a perfect balance of blueberry and beer flavor that pleases but doesn’t overpower the taste buds. The addition of fresh blueberry juice, over other types of flavoring, keeps our second year-round beer light and not-too-sweet-but-just-right!
11 IBU
11 IBU
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Rated by howardnss from Pennsylvania
3.75/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +11.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Faint blueberry taste.
Jun 21, 2021
Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania
4.27/5 rDev +26.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
4.27/5 rDev +26.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
I recently CANpleted a brewery horizontal with Knee Deep & these next few represent my next foray into a buncha CANs for The CANQuest (tm), while also CANtinuing to reduce the backlog.
From the CAN: "Rhode Island's Microbrewery"; "Rhode Island Blueberry Beer".
I CANmittedly did some in-CAN agitation before Crack!ing open the vent to being a relatively aggro C-Line Glug. I wanted to ensure that any adjuncts were back in suspension if there had been any flocculation. It foamed beautifully to form just under two fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, eggshell-white head with modest retention. Color was a hazy Amber (SRM = > 7, < 9). Nose smelled like a basket of freshly-picked blueberries, straight from the field! 8=O
Digression Dept., Pt. 1: When I was a kid, blueberries were my favorite fruit! I loved them in everything from cereal to muffins to pies. My paternal aunt had a blueberry patch & we would ocCANsionally go out & pick the fruit. I loved to just eat them as is, but she taught me a modicum of self-CANtrol & would bake a pie for me to take home, or if I had been especially hungry & not many were left, a quick batch of muffins and/or biscuits was in the offing. I try to make a 4th of July cake every year with blueberries, strawberries & either/both apples and/or peaches to resemble an AmeriCAN flag. Mmm.
Digression Dept., Pt. 2: The first time that I had a Blueberry Beer was at Gritty McDuff's in PORME during the Summer of 1990. I was a Mug Club member & when they had its release party, I was there! Maine says that they have five (5) seasons: 1) Winter; 2) Mud/Spring; 3) Tourist 4) Blueberry & 5) Black Fly with most overlapping. Haha! F**king Maine blueberries are the finest ever. I could eat a pint in one sitting. Gritty's would blend (first time that I ever heard of such a practice) their Black Fly Stout with the Blueberry Ale & call it a "Blue Fly". Haha! They would even put in some blueberries for good measure. On that note, BOS Beer Works also offers a Blueberry Ale & they will give you a scoop of defrosted frozen blueberries in your glass that, in CANbination with the carbonation, looks like a poor man's lava lamp with blueberries going up and down. Haha!
Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, but a) it was a base Kölsch-style ale & if you are looking for a dense mouthfeel, then you are squandering your time + b) mouthfeel is not the focus in this style. The presence of fruit is! Well, this was certainly fruity. The malt(s) gave it a more bready/biscuity quality than pie-like. That is to say that it was not a dessert beer. Its sweetness was held in check while the fruitiness had a ChANce to shine in CANjunction with its malt(s). Finish was semi-dry, definitely not sweet, which would have killed it for me. YMMV.
May 31, 2020From the CAN: "Rhode Island's Microbrewery"; "Rhode Island Blueberry Beer".
I CANmittedly did some in-CAN agitation before Crack!ing open the vent to being a relatively aggro C-Line Glug. I wanted to ensure that any adjuncts were back in suspension if there had been any flocculation. It foamed beautifully to form just under two fingers of foamy, soapy, rocky, eggshell-white head with modest retention. Color was a hazy Amber (SRM = > 7, < 9). Nose smelled like a basket of freshly-picked blueberries, straight from the field! 8=O
Digression Dept., Pt. 1: When I was a kid, blueberries were my favorite fruit! I loved them in everything from cereal to muffins to pies. My paternal aunt had a blueberry patch & we would ocCANsionally go out & pick the fruit. I loved to just eat them as is, but she taught me a modicum of self-CANtrol & would bake a pie for me to take home, or if I had been especially hungry & not many were left, a quick batch of muffins and/or biscuits was in the offing. I try to make a 4th of July cake every year with blueberries, strawberries & either/both apples and/or peaches to resemble an AmeriCAN flag. Mmm.
Digression Dept., Pt. 2: The first time that I had a Blueberry Beer was at Gritty McDuff's in PORME during the Summer of 1990. I was a Mug Club member & when they had its release party, I was there! Maine says that they have five (5) seasons: 1) Winter; 2) Mud/Spring; 3) Tourist 4) Blueberry & 5) Black Fly with most overlapping. Haha! F**king Maine blueberries are the finest ever. I could eat a pint in one sitting. Gritty's would blend (first time that I ever heard of such a practice) their Black Fly Stout with the Blueberry Ale & call it a "Blue Fly". Haha! They would even put in some blueberries for good measure. On that note, BOS Beer Works also offers a Blueberry Ale & they will give you a scoop of defrosted frozen blueberries in your glass that, in CANbination with the carbonation, looks like a poor man's lava lamp with blueberries going up and down. Haha!
Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, but a) it was a base Kölsch-style ale & if you are looking for a dense mouthfeel, then you are squandering your time + b) mouthfeel is not the focus in this style. The presence of fruit is! Well, this was certainly fruity. The malt(s) gave it a more bready/biscuity quality than pie-like. That is to say that it was not a dessert beer. Its sweetness was held in check while the fruitiness had a ChANce to shine in CANjunction with its malt(s). Finish was semi-dry, definitely not sweet, which would have killed it for me. YMMV.
Reviewed by CodyBasden from Texas
3.46/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.46/5 rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Nice amber color with white head that doesn't really hold for long, strong blueberry smell, though a very pleasant taste it's just to sweet for me but if you like beers that aren't bitter this is a nice go to, medium feel
May 19, 2019
Reviewed by EMV from Pennsylvania
3.19/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
3.19/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a Lagunitas mason glass
L: Clear light golden pour with 2 fingers of fluffy white head. Great lacing.
S: Blueberries and light grains. Smells as advertised.
T/F: Crackery grains... blueberry juice and light fruit. 1-dimensional and the berry doesn't work terribly well with the malts. Some sweetness but not a blueberry soda at least. Light bodied... fizzy carbonation.
O: Pretty underwhelming.. a light forgettable beer with blueberry. Easily drinkable at least. Not one I'd reach for again.
Dec 28, 2018L: Clear light golden pour with 2 fingers of fluffy white head. Great lacing.
S: Blueberries and light grains. Smells as advertised.
T/F: Crackery grains... blueberry juice and light fruit. 1-dimensional and the berry doesn't work terribly well with the malts. Some sweetness but not a blueberry soda at least. Light bodied... fizzy carbonation.
O: Pretty underwhelming.. a light forgettable beer with blueberry. Easily drinkable at least. Not one I'd reach for again.
Reviewed by ryanoh401 from Rhode Island
4.95/5 rDev +46.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
4.95/5 rDev +46.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 5
This is a light and floral fruit beer, as compared to the typical heavy and syrupy flavor- they use local blueberrys & blueberry juice from exeter RI instead of the typical artificial extracts and flavors in most fruit beers, so i think that's what really sets it apart.
Nov 03, 2016Reviewed by wac9 from Pennsylvania
3.05/5 rDev -9.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.05/5 rDev -9.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
not as good as other blueberry ales but the more i drink the more i i like so if u like a blueberry ale in summer try this one too looks good in the glass so enjoy
Feb 03, 2016
Reviewed by Rutager from Canada (BC)
2.89/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
2.89/5 rDev -14.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.75
I won this bottle in a contest that I was trying to lose. Kinda sets the mood, right? Plus this guy that bestowed it on me can't really be trusted ...I'd tell you why but that'd probably be slander or some shit.
ANYwho, it actually looks pretty decent in the hf stem ...no credit to the glassware, right? Copper, amber, orangy-red, and reddish orange. Maybe a little gold in there but definitely a slight blueish hue going on here. Maybe purplish, but I would say more on the blue side. The head is about half a finger tall and white. I find the colour of the beer has much more depth than the head. 3.64/5
Smells like caramel candy and blueberry hubba bubba.
Tastes decent, some of that caramel that was in the nose, not overly sweet though. Blueberry is there, in a preserve kind of way. Not terrible!
Feel is fine. Almost creamy carbonation.
Well, I thought I was in for it, but this wasn't all that bad. I could see people that "don't usually like beer" liking it.
Thanks buddy, it was actually a fun one that I never would have tried.
Dec 24, 2015ANYwho, it actually looks pretty decent in the hf stem ...no credit to the glassware, right? Copper, amber, orangy-red, and reddish orange. Maybe a little gold in there but definitely a slight blueish hue going on here. Maybe purplish, but I would say more on the blue side. The head is about half a finger tall and white. I find the colour of the beer has much more depth than the head. 3.64/5
Smells like caramel candy and blueberry hubba bubba.
Tastes decent, some of that caramel that was in the nose, not overly sweet though. Blueberry is there, in a preserve kind of way. Not terrible!
Feel is fine. Almost creamy carbonation.
Well, I thought I was in for it, but this wasn't all that bad. I could see people that "don't usually like beer" liking it.
Thanks buddy, it was actually a fun one that I never would have tried.
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