Coconut

NoDa Coco Loco Cans Hit the Market

NoDa CoCo Loco cans have just hit the market. This is the fourth can offering from NoDa.

NoDa Coco Loco is a porter, brewed with toasted coconut (toasted in house.) Combine that with chocolate and brown malts, and you have a Continue Reading →

Bayou Teche Tres Passionne Bottled Again Soon

Bayou Teche Biere (Arnauldville, LA) has confirmed with Beer Street Journal that they will be small batch releasing Tres Passionne bombers in the near future.

The beer is based the year round offering, Passionne, a wheat beer brewed with passionfruit.

Bayou Teche Continue Reading →

NoDa Coco Loco Coming to Cans

NoDa Brewing Company (Charlotte, NC) has announced a new can addition to their lineup, a tried and true favorite Coco Loco Porter. The previously draft-only porter has organic coconut the brewery toasts onsite.

Deep, rich and delicious. This robust porter has Continue Reading →

Pipeworks Renames Batata

Pipeworks Brewing Company’s (Chicago, IL) are the buzz of social media these days. Of course they are, when you have beers like Raspberry Truffle Abduction, Coffee Break Abduction, and Smore Money, Smore Problems.

Pipeworks Batata Obscura looks like a rename of Nisperos Continue Reading →

Posted in Brasserie Dunham, Don't Miss This, Jester King Brewery

Jester King Amicis Mortis, a Collab with Brasserie Dunham

Jester King Amicis Mortis, a collaboration with Brasserie Dunham in Dunham, Quebec releases this Friday.

This collaboration got started when the brewery first tasted Brasseries Dunham at the Shelton Brothers festival in Los Angeles. Jester King fell in love, and soon Dunham was brewing in Austin Texas.

Jester King Amicis Mortis is brewed with sweet potatoes, chili peppers, and coconut. The farmhouse ale was fermented in stainless steel using Jester King’s mix culture of locally harvested yeast and bacteria.

Jester King Amicis Mortis was packaged May 20th, 2015, in 750ml bottles. On sale when he brewery opens on Friday, August 21st. $12

Style: American Wild Ale (w/ Sweet Potatoes, Coconut, Chili Peppers)
Availability: 750ml Bottles. 2,400 Produced.
Release: 8/21/15

4.2% ABV, 32 IBUs

Images via Jester King

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in American Craft Beer Week, Don't Miss This, Modern Times Beer, New Releases

Modern Times Barrel Aged Monster’s Park Tickets on Sale 3/19

Modern Times Bourbon Barrel Aged Monster’s Park tickets go on sale this Thursday. The brewery’s 13% ABV imperial stout has been aged 5+ months in bourbon barrels.

There are three versions of Modern Times Bourbon Barrel Aged Monster’s Park: The “classic” edition, one featuring Black House Blend coffee, and one with toasted coconut & cocoa nibs.

600 bottles of each will be available. Prices range from $24 to 28 a piece.

Modern Times Bourbon Barrel Aged Monster’s Park and variants on March 19th at 10am via Brown Paper Tickets; all bottles must be picked up at the Lomaland Fermentorium tasting room during the two month pick-up window.

A tap room party will be on March 25th. [TICKETS]

Style: Imperial Stout (Barrel Aged. Bourbon.) Variants have Cocoa Nibs, Coconut, Coffee.
Availability: 22oz Bottles. 600 of each
Release: 3/25/15

13% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Westbrook Brewing Co

Westbrook 4th Anniversary: Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout Released

Westbrook Brewing Company is rolling up on their 4th Anniversary, and that means a new birthday offering.

Westbrook 4th Anniversary is an imperial stout, brewed with chocolate, coconut, and almonds. The coconutty offering was brewed in late, 2014.

To catch you up, Westbrook 1st Anniversary was Mexican Cake, first released in 2012. The demands requests for it were so high, it has become an annual release with barrel aged variants. The 2nd Anniversary was Cap’n Skoon’s Ballistic Stout.

Westbrook 3rd Anniversary was Chocolate Orange Stout. 4th Anniversary Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout will be available in 22oz bottles and draft. The brewery suggests drinking 4th Anniversary as fresh as possible (even if it IS 10% ABV.)

Westbrook 4th Anniversary: Chocolate Coconut Almond Imperial Stout is available in 22oz bottles and draft.

Style: Imperial Stout (w/ Chocolate, Almonds, Coconut)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Draft. Limited release.
Released: January, 2015

10% ABV

This article was updated to reflect the release of this beer.  

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, NoDa Brewing

NoDa Coco Loco Cans Hit the Market

NoDa CoCo Loco cans have just hit the market. This is the fourth can offering from NoDa.

NoDa Coco Loco is a porter, brewed with toasted coconut (toasted in house.) Combine that with chocolate and brown malts, and you have a medal winning beer.

Deep, rich and delicious. This robust porter has a base of Chocolate and Brown malts for a stunningly deep rich color with ruby highlights. The slight bitterness from American chocolate is balanced with the sweet odotes of organic coconut we toast onsite at the brewery. It was even awarded the Great American Beer Festival Silver Medal in 2012.

NoDa Coco Loco is now available in draft and in 16oz cans.

Style: Porter (w/ Coconut)
Availability: 16oz Cans, Draft. Year Round.

6.2% ABV

Read more: Canned Craft Beer

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Bayou Teche Biere, Coming Soon

Bayou Teche Tres Passionne Bottled Again Soon

Bayou Teche Biere (Arnauldville, LA) has confirmed with Beer Street Journal that they will be small batch releasing Tres Passionne bombers in the near future.

The beer is based the year round offering, Passionne, a wheat beer brewed with passionfruit.

Bayou Teche Tres Passionne is aged on toasted coconut. No re-release date yet.

Style: Wheat Beer (w/ Passionfruit, Toasted Coconut)
Availability: 22oz Bombers, Limited.

 

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Don't Miss This, NoDa Brewing

NoDa Coco Loco Coming to Cans

NoDa Brewing Company (Charlotte, NC) has announced a new can addition to their lineup, a tried and true favorite Coco Loco Porter. The previously draft-only porter has organic coconut the brewery toasts onsite.

Deep, rich and delicious. This robust porter has a base of Chocolate and Brown malts for a stunningly deep rich color with ruby highlights. The slight bitterness from American chocolate is balanced with the sweet notes of organic coconut we toast onsite at the brewery. It was even awarded the Great American Beer Festival Silver Medal in 2012.

Look for 16oz cans of NoDa Coco Loco in early fall, 2014.

Style: Porter (w/ Toasted Coconut)
Availability: Draft (Current), Cans (Fall, 2014) Year round offering.

6.2% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Pipeworks Brewing

Pipeworks Renames Batata

Pipeworks Brewing Company’s (Chicago, IL) are the buzz of social media these days. Of course they are, when you have beers like Raspberry Truffle Abduction, Coffee Break Abduction, and Smore Money, Smore Problems.

Pipeworks Batata Obscura looks like a rename of Nisperos Batata. This edition is higher in alcohol, and the brewery mentions it is worthy of cellaring.

It is inspired by the Puerto Rican dessert by the same name. Batata is brewed with sweet potatoes, clove, cinnamon, vanilla and toasted coconut, and is a perfect tribute to the brewery’s Puerto Rican neighbors.

Style: Imperial Porter (w/ Sweet Potatoes, Vanilla, Clove, Cinnamon, Coconut)
Availability: 22oz Bombers

7.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay