How Bout Dem Coconuts
The Bruery

750 ml bottle, label says 2022 edition, looks like the bottling date says 04/20/23. Served in a snifter, the beer pours dark brown/black with about an inch tan head. Head retention is good and there's a decent amount of lacing. I like the aroma, the brew smells like dark chocolate, vanilla, coconut, rum, brown sugar and some roasted malt. For the most part I think the taste is similar to the aroma, but with the addition of some dark bread and oaky flavors. Leans sweet tasting but no one flavor really overpowers the others here. Kinda wish the rum barrel had more of a kick, but then I probably should have drank this sooner too. Mouthfeel/body is medium/full, it's a bit slick and rich with a moderate amount of carbonation. I liked this one a lot, hopefully they'll bring it back at some point.

From the 750 ml bottle in a snifter via Bluejacket74! Cheers Dude!
This imperial stout pours a rich obsidian with a nice head of light brown foam
that settles to a thick ring, thin dusty layer, and sports some nice legs. Nose of
rum, dark chocolate, dark berry notes, vanilla, and toasted coconut amongst dark
roasted malts. Flavors excel with dark chocolate, mellow rum, vanilla, dark berry
notes of dark cherry and raspberry, dark coffee notes, and dark roasted goodness.
Mouth feel is full, smooth, rich, moderately slick, coating, light carbonation, and a
nice bitter malt finish that is sweet without being cloying.

Overall, a stellar brew that rest on the edges of the pastry style without being
anywhere near cloying.

Excellent!

Cheers

Pours dark brown or black, light collar of tan head, light lacing. Nose is rum barrel off the bat, vanilla, oak, char, maple syrup, spicy molasses. Taste is really reminiscent of reduced, sweet cola; treacly sweetness, light brown sugar, traces of vanilla; not much barrel on this surprisingly, and many of the subtle flavors on the nose are, at least initially, covered over by the sugar. As it warms, the coconut does come through; more coconut cream than dried coconut. Some Almond Joy notes as well; maybe even moreso than the Bruery's Almond Joy beer if memory serves. Feel is on the light side for the ABV with some subtle carbonation. Overall, I think this was on the better side of these "lower" ABV Bruery stouts, but still find it far too sweet to find any subtlety within it.

i think i like this one a bit better than the so you liked dem coconuts, rum barrels instead of bourbon, a bit of cocoa in the mix as well, a fine combination of flavors but this is at once more fresh and more mellow than the other one, and thus seems more refined, less reliant on the adjuncts to be good, and overall is an excellent beer, some porter in the base of this apparently, which im not sure was part of the other one, not that its really appreciable, but the base itself seems a little more nuanced, maybe not quite so heavy, although this is still enormous beer. just short of flat from the tap, black and shiny, slick and thick, leggy and intoxicating. the aroma is toasted coconut first, as expected, and some general rum sweetness with only the right amount of wood and vanilla, i think nicer proportions, brown sugar and molasses rather than the bourbon, more exotic, and it flatters the coconut. the cocoa is subtle but works well with the darker malt layers, warming alcohol and espresso are also present, some barrel char, a maple note, sweet and interesting. the flavor is all of this, coconut top to bottom, some almost greasy texture from it, and a lot of sugar. the rum is a neat wrinkle here, well integrated, light spiciness maybe from it, quite dynamic at different stages and as this warms up a bit. some late bitterness like dark chocolate and even smoke from the cocoa and the darkest barley in here, big boy body, long on the palate, wooden and mature but not old like some of these have tasted at the idaho spot so far, the coconut profile is excellent, and overall this is a fancy and fun beer with a unique barrel personality and a pleasantly slow pace. recommended, although still a step or so short of the most epic big dark ones these guys do, but thats a high bar. yum.

 

 

 

Pitch black with nice one finger mocha head that quickly dissipates. Nose is barrel, syrup, chocolate, hint of soy, and coffee. Taste opens with hints of milk chocolate, some toasted coconut, followed by a sweet vanilla cream that folds into a light sweet rum. Body is light to medium with similar carbonation. Ends dry with a lingering sweetness. Overall a nice beer that’s well balanced in true Bruery fashion. Body is a bit thinner than I’d want but appropriate. Glad it was included in the RS, not sure I would have picked it otherwise but so happy I got to try it.