BrewDog Storm

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Sampled on 3/12/2011. This IPA pours a slightly hazy orange gold color from a 33cl bottle. Small to medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is peat, malt, fruity, sweet and hoppy. A medium bodied IPA. The malts are fruity and sweet. The hops are citrusy. Decent carbonation. This is a bizarre beer. It is hoppy like and IPA, but it has that peaty, malty and mossy like quality of a scotch ale or an Islay Scotch. I am not sure if the blend works, but it is definitely different. The hoppiness mellows as it warms and the peatiness comes out so more. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Bought at Specs - 12oz bottle - $1.99 - batch 013 - Best Before - 02-02-2010 .. . took a gamble buying an IPA that was a year expired but coming in at 8% and aged in a cask, plus a cheap brewdog brew and not having had it before- i was sold .. . At first, this seemed like a really bad idea- the smell is rotten- typical old beer smell, light toffee, light scotch, and sweet dust .. . but the taste is actually quite nice, a bit different, similar to the nose but more scotch, light light peat, wood, socks, molasses, and terminator .. . Has held up amazingly well and the mouth indicates no abv burn at all .. . was worth the gamble completely and would love to try fresh if ever done again .. . Keep sailing Bob!

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 9

Would not drink again, that said i've just decided to bring this into my bar. Its a ridiculous idea, and i think brewdog pulled it off as good as anyone really could. Kudos for the attempt. Tons and tons of flavour, but what else would one expect, Islay casks and all. Strong peat, smoke, salt. But the converse side, the sweet side has apple and general fruit as well as lemon and licorice. Pretty cool, stoked, yet did not finish the bottle...... HMMMMMM........cool, try it, maybe an aqquired taste.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 2 | Mouthfeel: 2 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

My first BrewDog - NOT a good first impression. Label stated that drink-by date was 02-10-10 so I thought I was ok - Yellow gold pour with little head and no lacing. Aroma was very medicinal with slight rubbing alcohol, witch hazel and some other crap going on. Taste is also medicinal and very unIPA-like; no malts nor hops nor promised Scotch found in the flavor - only bitter prescription cough medicine. This was one HUGE disappointment and an expensive one at that.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

Poured out an orangy gold brew with an ok sized white cap, some sticky ropy lacing and skim retention. The aroma - well, I am very glad to smell tons of peat but I’m not sure if I want to drank what I think will turn out to be watery Islay Scotch. Peat, peat... sea salt, burning grass, ash tray, very pungent orange, licorice, sweet red apple skin. Very nice - very nice indeed. And... drum roll please.... yup watery Islay scotch... but there is more to it so I am not disappointed. Log smoke.. lots of it, just tons. Ash trays again, and hey, there’s the hops - grapefruit, candy, stiff spice (in a small dose) and ample bitterness is an interesting partner for the unrelenting peat machine. A touch of salt is tied in with the peat as it should be and that is one quality that I’m really digging here. The flavour mix is a tad bizarre but I’m down with that. The mouth feel is also bizarre in comparison to other brews - Very drying, permanent wood smoke residue, sometimes there is a sharp tartness on the back left side in my mouth. I can breathe in the hop bitterness right now. The fruity, dark citrus character has really come out a lot more at the bottom of my glass. Endless after taste. I really dig this brew. I love Islay peat monsters as well, so that not only helps me enjoy this more but also be able to see beyond the crushing impression of the peat imparted on untrained taste buds. This really doesn't seem much like a typical IPA but that's all due to the smoke and I don't care one bit. You gotta love the Islays to love this beer I think. Those vanilla tasting oak aged beers are just plain terrible. This is the ruler of their lands.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

I’m getting really tired of this brewery they have never impressed except for a few of their stouts and this IIPA is no exception. Beer looks golden with a tall white cap, seems wrong for the style but ok if this was a lager. The stench is strong with this one, heavy rotting wood, fresh asphalt and or brand new rubber boots, lots of smoke but no hop profile at all. Taste is very heavy on the peat and smoke, there is so much smoky flavor it is killing every single other flavor. No hops, no malt, not an IIPA in my opinion. I can drink this but this is not at all what it suppose to be. Boooooooo!!!!!! Brewdog once again you suck

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 3 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 2 | Overall: 2

Alot of peat and smoke in the flavor and taste departments, almost a medicinal quality to it. No ipa characteristics, very disapponited especially at 8 bucks a single, avoid it, unless medicinal oak flavored beer is your thing. I'll take almost any inbev product over this.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Pours out in a golden colour with a small frothy white head. Smoke, peat, salt and dried fruits in the aroma. Medium-bodied with strong notes of tar, salt, wood and iodine. Tarry and salty finish. The barrel character overshadows the original beer completely.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Bottled. Golden colour, small white head. Islay whisky cask in the nose and also some slight fruity notes. Flavour is pretty much oakbarrel, smoke and very islay whiskyish. Not much left of any IPA-like notes in the flavour.