Coconut Porter

By Ken Bazley

BJCP 2021 Style 30A Spiced, Herb and Vegetable Beer

I decide to brew this after tasting a can of Maui Brewery-Coconut Porter.
I've brewed it many times and always had great feedback. Quote from Gregg Irwin (founding partner of Weird Beard) - "liquid bounty heaven".

It also won me my first competition medal!

To achieve a great coconut flavour you need to gently toast it before adding it to secondary.
I will warn you though that miniscule pieces of coconut can slip through into the final product which cause nucleation sites when you bottle. So if you bottle, don't keep them for too long!

Awards

UK Nationals 2012, Bristol

1st - Porters and Stouts

Measures

• IBU 40
• ABV 4.8%
• OG 1.055
• FG 1.019
• EBC 70
• 52 litre batch.
• 48 litres into fermenter.

Ingredients

Water

London water

Malt

• Maris Otter Pale 11kg
• Carafa I 460g
• Crystal 500g
• Chocolate 460g
• Black 230g

Hops

• Target (11% AA) 27g @ 60
• Magnum (14%AA) 13g @ 60
• Willamette 6.3% 42@ 40min
• Willamette 6.3% 30@ 20min

Adjuncts

• Dessicated Coconut, 800gr - (toast at 150C for 40mins in fan oven)

Yeast

• US-05 - (also works well with WLP051)

Process

Mash

Single infusion at 66.8°C for 90 minutes
Mashout at 75°C
Mash thickness of 2.5 litres per kilogram.

Boil

60 minute boil,

Ferment

Fermented at 18C for 4 days then at 20C to finish.
Add coconut to secondary after 4 days.