Coconuts Porter
Russell Brewing Company
- From:
- Russell Brewing Company
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- American Porter
- ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.96 | pDev: 6.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Dec 14, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 04, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by N_E_Beer from Canada (BC)
4.15/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Enjoyed in a pilsner glass poured from 650 ml bottle from BC Liquor Store. Friend brought this over for Christmas Eve feast and I was frankly offended. Not really, but anyway. I was expecting a cheap coconut tasting gimmick beer. It pours black, with a head darker than and appealing as a nice lemon meringue pie. The head is worth a double take. The aroma was surprising to me, a bit yeasty and malty, a bit of marshmallow, sweet, very pleasant. Coconut is barely there to me in the taste, a bit oat-y. Great clean finish, in a city with plenty of porters with clean finishes.
I find myself in the unexpected position of preferring this to Old Geezer and, for one pint, I might even prefer this over 33 Acres of Darkness, but the latter is more sessionable and has the better finish. Overall, great beer.
"It has a hula girl on it, this is my new beer." - Drinking Buddy
Dec 25, 2016I find myself in the unexpected position of preferring this to Old Geezer and, for one pint, I might even prefer this over 33 Acres of Darkness, but the latter is more sessionable and has the better finish. Overall, great beer.
"It has a hula girl on it, this is my new beer." - Drinking Buddy
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.68/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.68/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle - a porter, made with coconuts, in case it wasn't clear already. I'm here to help.
This beer pours a pretty solid black, with very minor red-cola basal edges, and four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy brown head, which leaves some decent mountain river pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bittersweet chocolate, lightly roasted and grainy caramel malt, fairly tame copra notes, cafe-au-lait, and a bit of musty, weedy, and floral hoppiness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, milk chocolate, still hard to pin down fleshy coconut, ephemeral black coffee notes, cream, black licorice root, a touch of free-agent ashiness, and more plain earthy, leafy, and dead floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is quite light in its caressing frothiness, the body a sturdy medium weight, and nice 'n smooth, with a small airy creaminess kicking off right from the onset. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, cocoa, and milk cream essences presiding.
Overall, one can look at this offering in two ways: the first, as a well-made porter, of more or less the English style, or the second, as an abject failure as a COCONUT porter. Depending on where you stand on the use of coconut in yer brew, you could swing either way - me, I'm on the fence. Easy to drink, sure, but don't expect any Bounty candy bar revelations.
Dec 10, 2016This beer pours a pretty solid black, with very minor red-cola basal edges, and four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and creamy brown head, which leaves some decent mountain river pattern lace around the glass as it evenly subsides.
It smells of bittersweet chocolate, lightly roasted and grainy caramel malt, fairly tame copra notes, cafe-au-lait, and a bit of musty, weedy, and floral hoppiness. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, milk chocolate, still hard to pin down fleshy coconut, ephemeral black coffee notes, cream, black licorice root, a touch of free-agent ashiness, and more plain earthy, leafy, and dead floral green hop bitters.
The carbonation is quite light in its caressing frothiness, the body a sturdy medium weight, and nice 'n smooth, with a small airy creaminess kicking off right from the onset. It finishes off-dry, the caramel, cocoa, and milk cream essences presiding.
Overall, one can look at this offering in two ways: the first, as a well-made porter, of more or less the English style, or the second, as an abject failure as a COCONUT porter. Depending on where you stand on the use of coconut in yer brew, you could swing either way - me, I'm on the fence. Easy to drink, sure, but don't expect any Bounty candy bar revelations.
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