Moreau Coconut Tropical Stout
Apex Brewing
- From:
- Apex Brewing
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Foreign / Export Stout
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.02 | pDev: 5.47%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 11, 2018
- Added:
- Dec 13, 2017
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 1
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Permit us to explain something of the devil as we know him. For we’ve seen him in our microscopes, and metaphorically speaking, we’ve cut him to pieces…An unnaturally delectable tropical stout brewed with toasted coconut throughout. Understandably this must come as a shock to you, but you see we’ve achieved near perfection with the addition of cinnamon sticks melding with vanilla beans and molasses. The result of painstaking experimentation, it is devilishly sweet, with a touch of stout roastiness, velvety mouthfeel, and intense fruity esters. We are striving to create some measure of…refinement.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Cwrw from Canada (AB)
4.36/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
This 473ml can looks great, I guess they're referencing the HG Wells book? Geez, is there any BAD looking craft beer artwork out there? Oh yeah, MIkkeller.
Cracking the can and already I get a great big whiff of vanilla. Explosive opening--the brew seems highly carbonated. Pours out a jet-black viscous liquid, with a humongous coffee-coloured head, frothing away. Definitely highly carbonated. The violent head dissipates quickly to become a nice, fine film on the beer. Looks fantastic.
Wow, exceptional aroma. It really does have a sugary coconut smell up front, followed by some vanilla and raisins. Brown sugar, some "je ne sais quoi" aroma I can't quite place, a product of the coconut or cinnamon? I don't really get much cinnamon, despite the claim on the can that cinnamon sticks were used. The coconut mixed with the malts seems to give a bit of a wet cardboard smell, but not in a bad way. This is more like a craft cola aroma--vanilla, some maple, and even a woody, sappy nuance. Very complex. In fact, I've never quite smelled its equal--this has something a little transcendent, imo. Fantasic.
Goes down thick and oily, and it definitely borders on that imperial stout territory. Like the aroma, the taste has something I can't quite put my finger on: it's a milky chocolate taste but with something extra. Raisins are there, as well as dark chocolate and a hint of coffee. Yes, as the beer warms the coffee notes come out quite strong. Dates, prunes, and cola nuts. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Yeah, fantastic.
Mouthfeel is a solid medium-to-high body, and with very little astringency from the 8%. Finishes sweet mainly, but with a hint of dark chocolate dryness.
Very, very impressed. More complex than many imperial stouts I've tried.
Apr 11, 2018Cracking the can and already I get a great big whiff of vanilla. Explosive opening--the brew seems highly carbonated. Pours out a jet-black viscous liquid, with a humongous coffee-coloured head, frothing away. Definitely highly carbonated. The violent head dissipates quickly to become a nice, fine film on the beer. Looks fantastic.
Wow, exceptional aroma. It really does have a sugary coconut smell up front, followed by some vanilla and raisins. Brown sugar, some "je ne sais quoi" aroma I can't quite place, a product of the coconut or cinnamon? I don't really get much cinnamon, despite the claim on the can that cinnamon sticks were used. The coconut mixed with the malts seems to give a bit of a wet cardboard smell, but not in a bad way. This is more like a craft cola aroma--vanilla, some maple, and even a woody, sappy nuance. Very complex. In fact, I've never quite smelled its equal--this has something a little transcendent, imo. Fantasic.
Goes down thick and oily, and it definitely borders on that imperial stout territory. Like the aroma, the taste has something I can't quite put my finger on: it's a milky chocolate taste but with something extra. Raisins are there, as well as dark chocolate and a hint of coffee. Yes, as the beer warms the coffee notes come out quite strong. Dates, prunes, and cola nuts. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Yeah, fantastic.
Mouthfeel is a solid medium-to-high body, and with very little astringency from the 8%. Finishes sweet mainly, but with a hint of dark chocolate dryness.
Very, very impressed. More complex than many imperial stouts I've tried.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.96/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.96/5 rDev -1.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473ml can, the latest in their 'Villainous Series'. This time, they take on the bad guy from the Island of Dr. Moreau, or something, as I've never seen said flick.
This beer pours a solid black abyss, with faint amber basal edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some distant flock of seagulls lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, roasted copra, bittersweet cocoa powder, a hint of anise and cinnamon spice, vanilla vodka, brown sugar syrup, and very tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hops. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, watery Bounty chocolate bars (fitting, here), black licorice, a subtle dark orchard fruitiness, molasses, and more understated leafy, musky, and soused-up floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, the char making a minor dent in the proceedings. It finishes off-dry, all malt, chocolate, coconut, and mild hovering booze.
Overall - this is a pretty agreeable version of the style, with the inherent tropical nature augmented by the coconut additions. Everything seems nice and balanced, in an eminently quaffable manner - no evil detected, except for the more or less undetectable 16-proof, so-called heat.
Dec 21, 2017This beer pours a solid black abyss, with faint amber basal edges, and a teeming tower of puffy, rocky, and bubbly brown head, which leaves some distant flock of seagulls lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of bready and doughy caramel malt, roasted copra, bittersweet cocoa powder, a hint of anise and cinnamon spice, vanilla vodka, brown sugar syrup, and very tame earthy, weedy, and floral green hops. The taste is bready and grainy caramel malt, some free-range ashiness, watery Bounty chocolate bars (fitting, here), black licorice, a subtle dark orchard fruitiness, molasses, and more understated leafy, musky, and soused-up floral hoppiness.
The carbonation is average in its palate-coating frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, the char making a minor dent in the proceedings. It finishes off-dry, all malt, chocolate, coconut, and mild hovering booze.
Overall - this is a pretty agreeable version of the style, with the inherent tropical nature augmented by the coconut additions. Everything seems nice and balanced, in an eminently quaffable manner - no evil detected, except for the more or less undetectable 16-proof, so-called heat.
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