Coconut Crunch (Chocolate Coconut Porter)
Manayunk Brewery and Restaurant

Yum! Great coconut aroma, no need for a label to let you know. This carries through on the palate, with a light chocolate bitterness. A fun beer for sure!

 

12 ounce undated can. Poured into a tulip. Pours brown, with a latte colored foam cap. Decent lacing on the glass.
The nose is fresh coconut and malted milk chocolate.
Candied coconut, coconut milk, chocolate, streaks of coffee and vanilla at the finish.
Silky but thin body, low carbonated. A touch more body would definitely be a good thing here.
Overall a fun beer, worth a try but not something I’d have again.

Very nice dark beer, with solid head production and OK retention.

Nose features cola, chocolate, coffee, vanilla, and toasted coconut.

Quite roasty, with the coconut coming on around mid-palate and lasting through the finish. Throughout, touches of cream and chocolate make appearances, but the majority of the profile is toffee, burnt toast, black coffee, and char.

Lively on the palate; feels appropriate for a 6% ABV porter.

Appearance - Pours dark brown with thin tan head that dissipates to a rocky thin ring around the glass. No lacing.

Aroma - Toasted coconut, chocolate forward, light roasted malts, hint of vanilla lightly sweet.

Taste - Taste follows nose sweet toasted coconut, malted milk balls chocolate, roasted malts, slightly metallic taste right at the end for just a second.

Feel - Light side of medium really pretty thin, easy drinking lightly bitter finish.

Overall - Little thin for a porter but tasty and easy drinking.

 

 

Moderate to vigorous pour yields a 1/2 inch tan head over a dark brown body with minimal lacing. Nose of coconut, malted milk chocolate, and more coconut. Taste of more of the same. Rather thin feel with a dry finish. Overall, not too bad.

 

 

This is a true novelity beer which lives up to its own advertising. It tastes sort of like an almond joy candy bar in a can minus the sickly sweet part. It was complex it that there was coconut,chocolate,coffee,and yet it still tastes like a porter. Great dessert beer but I would assume most would stop at one. A gimmick beer thats worth a try

Manayunk Brewing Co. "Chocolate Coconut Crunch Porter"
12 fl. oz. can without production codes or freshness dating
$2 @ Weis Market, Conshohocken, PA

Notes via stream of consciousness: New labeling - nice. It pours a very very dark mahogany brown but doesn't quite become "black". The head is a frothy tan that steadily settles. The aroma is bold with toasted coconut that's backed by chocolate. The flavor follows but it's not nearly as sweet as the aroma suggests. The toasted coconut remains, however, and it's a pleasant change from a standard porter. There's some roastiness to it similar to black coffee, and the smell/taste of rich, oily coffee beans themselves - kind of like a chocolate covered espresso bean. The label states that there are both American and English hops in use but I don't find them anywhere other than in its firm bitterness, and along with that the roastiness helps it to finish dry. Hmmm, I almost wish it was sweeter as I think it'd make a great dessert beer, but that's not for me to say. As is I've enjoyed it and could easily see having one out at the pub. Two? Perhaps not, but I wouldn't shy away from it the next time.

 

A: Deep black pour with a dark tan frothy head sits slight at 0.5 inches but stays moderately about. The lace decoration is light, spacious and rather weakly holding.

S: From first opening of the can the coconut was especially dominant with a sense of flaked coconut with some sweet hersey syrup. In the vessel the deep milky chocolate dominates with a rich and sweet nature while the coconut adds a light background ambiance.

T: The flavor had a chocolate malt base with a bit of hersey chocolate syrup sweetness, almost artificial. The coconut is evident, but much less pronounced then the nose. Soft roasty hop bitterness with a bit of spiciness that is hard to pinpoint, but here goes, possible cola-caramel sweetness, spicy nuttiness, vanilla with some toffee. Touchs of metallic chocolate on the swallow.

M: The mouthful is silky, smooth and creamy, lighter side of medium, with only a small mention of carbonation on the tip of the tongue.

O: Being a fan of both coconut and chocolate, as well beer, i found this intriquing enough to warrant a 83. A tad sweet and perhaps a tad hard to follow up Oskar Blues Death by Coconut which i happened to have had the previous night. One is enough of a try.

 

 

 

 

A thanks to the creator of the canquest, woodychandler, for this beer. Poured from a 12 oz. can. Has a black color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is identical to a Mounds bar. Taste is coconut, roasted malts, chocolate is present, but not as strong as in the aroma. Feels medium/light bodied in the mouth and overall is a solid beer.