Swans Brewpub Coconut Porter

Coconut Porter

 

Swans Brewpub in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦

  Porter Regular Out of Production
Score
6.49
ABV: 6.0% IBU: - Ticks: 9
Originally brewed for the February 2009 Brewmaster’s Dinner, its popularity has demanded a more regular release. Limited release. Initially 5%.
 

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

Draft - Light roast and dark chocolate with toasted coconut. Dark brown with a decent light brown head. Lots of coconut and light chocolate. Long finish. Tons of coconut notes.

Tried from Draft on 08 Sep 2016 at 23:29


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

I’m usually partial to coconut but this is more like processed coconut flakes than real coconut. It’s an idea that could work with fresh coconut water but here it doesn’t - the coconut just overtakes the badly brewed porter. Every beer they have tastes the same with minor adjustments. Getting near unpalatable. On tap at brewpub - this was the ’brewer’s choice.’

Tried from Draft on 05 May 2013 at 01:27


7.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

On tap. Pours a deep dark red/black with light head. Aromas of coconut and light roasted malts. Tastes like a coconut chocolate bar. Neat.

Tried from Draft on 07 Sep 2012 at 20:29


7.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

Cask at Alibi Room, Vancouver
Dark brown color; almost no head. Very nice aroma, mildly roasted malts, chocolate, a bit fruity too; new leather, very light phenol. Smooth mouthfeel, good mild chocolate flavor; there is something more, maybe the coconut, subdued but nice, and some coffee; the final is drier; correct bitterness, with a fairly good hopping. Very good session beer.

Tried from Cask on 30 Mar 2011 at 09:00


5.4
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 3 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

I’m an avid disliker of coconut flavoured products of all types, and yet when presented with a coconut-flavoured beer my masochistic side jumps to the fore and demands to know what it could possibly taste like. Has a decent black body and barely any head. The aroma is all subdued barley. The flavour - well, there’s the coconut, almost entirely coconut, with some vague porter notes in the back. It seems well balanced, and the coconut isn’t as awful as I would have expected; the chocolate-coffee barley notes and the coconut tend to work all right together, and I find it drinkable, even as an avowed hater of coconut.

Tried on 15 Feb 2011 at 19:42


7
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Tap. Dark brown. Subtle and well put together. Chocolate, light coconut - like a dry bounty bar. Chewy body, mellow mouthfeel. Pleasant sessionable porter.

Tried from Draft on 11 Sep 2010 at 18:34


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Sampled at GCBF '10, pours dark brown. Aroma and flavour of dominating coconut, with undertones of roasted malt. Decent. 6 3 6 3 12 3.0/5

On tap at Swans Hotel, pours jet black with a small tan head. Nose brings out toasted coconut and medium roast. Flavour is very smooth, with lots of toasted coconut and toasted malt. A coconut bomb, with subdued cocoa. Quite nice stuff, much better than when I had it 6 years earlier.

Tried from Draft on 11 Sep 2010 at 10:41


5
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Dark brown. Not much head - coconut oil perhaps? Light chocolate nose and vague coconut. Fairly bland porter - cheap coffee, vague chocolate but not much of either. Very limited coconut. This idea has been done much better.

Tried on 17 Mar 2010 at 16:12


5.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle@UDRM. Dark color, big brown head. Sweet sourish aroma, artificial fruity, apricot. Bit sourish malty taste. Slight sticky palate.

Tried from Bottle on 16 Oct 2009 at 12:56