Vibrant Forest Brewery Tonkaccino

Tonkaccino

 

Vibrant Forest Brewery in Hardley, Hampshire, England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Collab with: BrewDog
  Stout - Foreign / Extra Special
Score
6.76
ABV: 4.8% IBU: - Ticks: 11
CollabFest 2019

A wee while ago, 800 members of BrewDog Southampton rocked up to the brewery, ate pizza, drank beer, and helped us smash out our CollabFest 2019 brew!

That brew is Tonkaccino, a 4.8% stout brimming with tonka and coffee flavours.

We'd had this name on the back burner for some time after resident wordsmith, CJ, used it as a placeholder for last year's Sombre Pharos.

It's light, but full of punch, and we're pretty happy with our efforts!

Cheers very much to the folks at Southampton Brewdog for choosing us this year, it's been great fun! Special thanks to Ant who spearheaded this jolly, who recently left the BD family to pursue other goals, good luck matey!
 

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6.5
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Keg at the Two-Tailed Lion, Leicester. The beer pours very dark brown with a small layer of tan head. Vanilla, corn syrup, some light coffee and the wonderfully elusive tonka bean are on display in the aroma. Taste is sweet, with the sour-umami character of tonka bean woven through, perhaps a little too strongly. Lightly carbonated which gives a little lift to the oily body. Can you have too much tonka? I would've said no until now...

Tried from Can on 17 Sep 2020 at 16:34


6.3
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

On tap at Brewdog Bristol. Black with beige head. Tonka, coffee, cocoa, solid aroma but watery and bland flavor. Too thin. Light bodied.

Tried from Draft at BrewDog Bristol Baldwin Street on 13 Jan 2020 at 20:55


7.2
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Keg at BD Sheps Boost, 21/10/19. Black pour with a moderate tan cap that soon collapses. Nose is light roast, coconut shavings, chocolate, charr. Taste comprises chocolate biscuit, ashen tones, cinnamon, roast malts, light coconut, coffee grinds. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Decent flavoursome stout.

Tried on 14 Nov 2019 at 12:40


6

Roast, ashy, bitter herbs, cocoa, straw, pine

Tried from Draft on 05 Nov 2019 at 17:32


6

Tap. Pours black. Aroma and flavor are bitter, roast, tonka, sweetness, coffee, watery. Overall: ok.

Tried from Draft on 26 Oct 2019 at 23:28


6

Tried on 21 Oct 2019 at 15:15


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Keg at brewdog Edinburgh. Pours black, nose is huge tonka, roasted, coffee, chocolate, taste is similar, quite bitter and dry. 8/4/8/4/15

Tried on 21 Oct 2019 at 07:48


8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Keg at brewdog Edinburgh... Dark black.. Thin tan lacing.. Soft sweet dark chocolate roast.. Bug tonka... Dark roast malts.. Heavy sweet chocolates roast.. Big tonka

Tried on 19 Oct 2019 at 21:18


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Keg Brewdog Göteborg 2018-10-19 Göteborg AR: orange vanilla roasted mild fruity coffee AP: dark brown, wee sand brown lid F: heavy but mod coffee, dry core flesh beans, grainy great aroma not that great flavor

Tried on 19 Oct 2019 at 14:41


6.8
Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Tried from Draft at BrewDog Brussels on 18 Oct 2019 at 20:40