Coco Crazee
Other Half Brewing - Center Street

Black color. No head at all. Sweet roasted malt, coconut, bourbon, and lactic sugar in the aroma. Sweet taste with some roasted bitterness at the end.

poured from a 500mL bottle into a perennial snifter. pours a gloopy dark brown with the tiniest specks of coconut flakes on the top. no foam or head to speak of or perhaps it disappeared before i could get a good look at it. strong coconut candy and chocolate on the nose with a slight bourbon whiskey sting. taste follows and man is it a lot of coconut. the barrel-aging helps but this is a sweet chocolate coconut showcase. it gets a little tiring over the course of a 500mL bottle. thick mouthfeel with a lower level of carbonation. a tasty treat. i guess i’m not sure what else i was expecting as it is called coco crazee.

 

Type: 500-ml. bottle
Reviewed as: American Double / Imperial Stout
Glass: Pure Project 16-oz. brandy snifter glass
Price: $15.00
From: A person on the SD Glopswap Facebook trading group
Purchased: April 17, 2021
Consumed: June 5, 2021
Misc.: No bottled on date

Spent way too much on a bottle of this and four others from a San Diego Facebook beer trading group. Untappd description was “If you like eating dessert in the tropics, this is your stout. Conditioned on raw coconut, coconut milk, and toasted coconut, it’s a true coconut explosion.” Yummy.

Poured a pitch-black color with two fingers of khaki-tan frothy head. Fairly calm setting underneath the head. Decent watery lacing. Excellent retention. (Sight - 4.00)

Smelled toasted coconut, shaved coconut, vanilla, milk chocolate, hints of Mounds candy bar and some oaky wood. Grew on me as it had time to breathe considering it was a 14.0 pct. beer. Even better out of the bottle. (Smell - 4.00)

Tasted a little better than the nose. There were more good things than bad things with the taste but something just wasn’t quite there. Got big coconut (toasted, shaved, raw), vanilla, sugary milk chocolate, hints of Mounds candy bar, sugary chocolate syrup, oaky wood, sticky maple syrup and light molasses. Super smooth for 14 pct. ABV. Damn. (Taste - 4.00)

Full body. Sticky texture. Soft carbonation. Long, smooth finish. (Feel - 4.50)

Just a really good beer. Not quite as good as I hoped, but still outstanding. (Overall - 4.00)

4.05 | 91 | A-

 

 

Sampling a cellar temp 500 ml bottle of this beer. Picked up at the brewery for me by a friend. Im drinking from my trusty snifter.
Beer pours motor oil black and thick, almost no head foams up at all. I get a bit of dense brown foam for the last 15% of the pour but this fades to a thin edge layer almost immediately. Didnt expect it to have so little foam.
Aroma is a lot of what I expect, dark chocolate, some molasses notes, light bourbon notes, some toasted malt and a good bit of coconut. The nose is a pretty nice mix with no one scent being dominant.
First sip reveals a pretty thick body with sticky texture and a coating of my palate, roof of my mouth and lips after each sip. This beer leaves a mark. Carbonation is very fine and very soft, almost not there.
Flavor is dark chocolate and fudge mixing with some bourbon notes and a bit of brown sugar. The coconut comes through at the end with a bit of a roasted note as well. Coconut lingers after each sip, isnt too sweet and the coconut seems to taste natural and not any sort of over the top artificial extract etc.
No hops anywhere on this beer. I do get a little warming booze in my belly after each swallow, makes for a bit of a sipping beer.
I enjoy this one, and hope I still do by the end of the glass, as it does feel like it will fill me up a little. Nice coconut stout.

Medium shimmering black body with a brown foam ring. Smell and taste are clones: light bourbon barrel serves to accent the starring brownie batter and coconut through the whole sip, finishes very sweet but stops short of cloying. Not a lot of nuance, but hits the notes it has powerfully. Want a touch more barrel in the flavor complexion and feel especially as it does lean syrupy but not too heavy thankfully

 

Wow. There’s a lot going on here. Loved trying it but not an every day stout.

Very sweet and very big on the coconut scents and flavors. Slightly roasty stout flavors, bit of chocolate presence, and a definite barrel character. Syrupy, thick, medium bodied, boozy. Good, but the syrupyness brings it down slightly.

 

 

Pours black with almost no fizzy brown head and some white flakes floating on the top which I assume are coconut flakes. Aroma is roasty, huge leather notes, coconut is present but not nearly to the extent I anticipated, what is there is mostly raw coconut. Taste is very sweet, and very delicious. There’s a maple syrup like sweetness up front, chocolate fudge, a big roastiness comes in on the finish. This is just massively sweet but not cloying as the roastiness balances, as does bitterness and some oaky notes. Interestingly, I get almost no coconut. Very good though, this reminds me of what a bourbon county might taste like if it wasn’t barrel aged. Mouthfeel is fully bodied, drinkability somewhat limited just cause it’s such a big beer, but ABV is exceptionally well masked. Overall, the lack of coconut was a bit disappointing but I still really enjoyed this beer. Then again Im kind of a sucker for ultra high ABV, very sweet stouts. Don’t think this one would be for everyone, but if you like that type of aggressive IS you will probably dig this one.


4/4/4.5/4.25/4.5

 

 

Pours pitch black, thick and viscous. Nice mocha head with ample lacing. Aroma is massive coconut, cream of coconut, and tons of booze. Flavor is sweet coconut, bitter chocolate, light espresso, bitter Espresso finish. Rich, thick and full bodied, creamy texture. Overall a good imperial coconut stout, a bit on the boozy side.

7/27/20
500 ml bottle released late June
4.5 rating