God Damn Coconut Pigeon Porter
Spiteful Brewing

(2/4) Brownish black with a thin tan ring. Smell has so much coconut it is crazy, airy and lifts off the roasted malts, dark chocolate, and earth. Taste adds vanilla sweetness to the coconut, which while cold is fine, but as you drink more it starts to overwhelm the porter and its nuances. Feel is lighter than the others, the sweetest feeling of the bunch, but still roasted underneath it all.

 

 

 

Pours pitch black, shiny, and completely opaque. Thin tan head dissipates quickly.

Aroma has roasted dark malts, cocoa, hints of sweet vanilla and toasted coconut.

Taste follows the nose with notes of roasted dark malts, some bittering hops, some toasted coconut that does take on a bit of a beachy like flavor. Cocoa and chocolate come through.

Feel is super smooth, easy drinking, semi-drier finish. Mild carbonation.

Overall this is a nice variant on a great porter.

 

 

12/3/18 ($6.26 16oz can purchased at Vas Foremost) poured into pint glass. Dark brown pour, light off-white head. nice roasted malt and coffee aroma, coconut as well. Solid roasted malt and chocolate taste, coconut backs, nice blend. Milky smooth mouth feel, carbonation light. Very easy drinking, overall excellent pour.

 

2018 can

Wouldn't guess coconut if i had this blind. The base porter is great with big roasted malt, caramel malt, dark chocolate, light bitterness, fruity yeast esters, hint of coconut maybe

 

 

 

 

 

A really well put together sweet porter. Roastiness on the nose and taste profile. Coconut feel is quite muted surprisingly - almost more a hint of coconut than anything. Creamy, almost milky smooth mouthfeel. Very decent.

 

 

 

If I'm reading right from when this was added, the six months of age have done this well. The bitterness has been cut, coconut is more of a nutty accent. Great viscosity to it, drinks easily yet nicely coating.
To me the regular and the raspberry were a bit too heavy handed with the hops for me, this cuts that out.