Coconut Boxcar Porter
Tighthead Brewing Company
- From:
- Tighthead Brewing Company
- Illinois, United States
- Style:
- English Porter
- ABV:
- 5.9%
- Score:
- +7 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.73 | pDev: 10.19%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 05, 2016
- Added:
- Nov 07, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TMoney2591 from Illinois
3.49/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
3.49/5 rDev -6.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
Served on cask in a shaker pint glass at the brewery tap room.
It's a tradition for trivia nights here at Tighthead: try the cask beer first. In this case, it's a coconut-laden version of the Boxcar Porter. It pours a midnight sienna topped by a short finger or so of light golden-tan foam. The nose comprises mild roasted malts, sweet milk chocolate, a hint of coconut shavings, and a touch of graham cracker. The taste initially follows suit, but instead of some shavings from the inside of a coconut, there is instead a vague sense of charred coconut husk or shell, which takes me out of this beer's corner, sadly. Things just do not meld the way they could have. The body is a lithe medium, with a light carbonation and a subsequently smooth feel. Overall, this variant just didn't do it for me. It's nothing I would call "bad", just a recipe I won't be looking forward to trying ever again.
Nov 07, 2015It's a tradition for trivia nights here at Tighthead: try the cask beer first. In this case, it's a coconut-laden version of the Boxcar Porter. It pours a midnight sienna topped by a short finger or so of light golden-tan foam. The nose comprises mild roasted malts, sweet milk chocolate, a hint of coconut shavings, and a touch of graham cracker. The taste initially follows suit, but instead of some shavings from the inside of a coconut, there is instead a vague sense of charred coconut husk or shell, which takes me out of this beer's corner, sadly. Things just do not meld the way they could have. The body is a lithe medium, with a light carbonation and a subsequently smooth feel. Overall, this variant just didn't do it for me. It's nothing I would call "bad", just a recipe I won't be looking forward to trying ever again.
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