Black Isle Brewery Coco Van Porter

Coco Van Porter

 

Black Isle Brewery in Munlochy, Highland, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  Porter - Pastry / Flavoured Regular
Score
7.10
ABV: 5.7% IBU: - Ticks: 12
For most of the Northern hemisphere, Summer is waning. The days are drawing in, the nights getting longer, and fires are lit as we hunker down for 4 months of soups and cocoa.

In Scotland however, September is an Indian summer. August we get rain, September we get sunshine; one last hurrah before the dying of the light.

What better way to celebrate this bounteous time of year than with an organic coconut vanilla porter.

Sweet, rich, sumptuous, decadence.
 

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

Sample courtesy of Grumbo, cheers! Aroma is dark fruits and vanilla. Taste is chocolate, vanilla and coconut. Nice.

Tried on 12 Jan 2025 at 11:05


8

Can at home... Dark black... Thin tan lacing.. Soft sweet chocolate Roast malts nose... Dark roast chocolate malts.. Light dry dusty chocolate

Tried from Can on 16 Mar 2023 at 18:41


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9

Black pour with a tan head; aromas of malts, cocoa, vanilla, coconut, same for the taste with a hint of cream. Very nice.

Tried on 03 Jun 2022 at 21:06


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

Can from Sainsbury's. Pours dark brown with a thin tan head. Aromas of chocolate and coconut, faint vanilla. Taste is more of the same. Light sweet finish.

Tried from Can on 27 Feb 2022 at 08:19


7

Tried on 09 Oct 2021 at 19:27


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

Panda at home, thanks to SIHG, 12/07/21. Black with a decent tan head. Nose is dark malts, ashen tones, hint of plastic, cocoa powder, burnt toffee. Taste comprises chocolate, vanilla, dark malts, hint of coconut, brown sugar dusting. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, light drying close. Decent enough porter.

Tried on 12 Jul 2021 at 20:52


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

Panda 🐼 at home thanks to SHIG. An opaquie dark brown coloured pour with a lasting whispy light tan head. Aroma is coco, cola cubes, nutty malts, almond. Flavour is composed of fizzy cola cubes, nutty, cocoa, coco powder, little thin. Palate is fizzy, light grainy high carbonation.

Tried on 08 Jul 2021 at 20:56


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

22/7/2021. Can sample courtesy of SHIG, cheers! Pours very dark brown with a small bubbly off-white to beige head. Aroma of chocolate, roasted malt, caramel, vanilla, nut, ash, hint of berry and coconut. Medium sweetness and light roasted bitterness. Medium body, gently fizzy. Pretty decent.

Tried from Can on 07 Jul 2021 at 07:16


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

Can: Poured a deep brown black with a tan color head. Aroma is roasted malts, cocoa, chocolate. Taste is chocolate, cocoa, super malty biscuit, earthy.

Tried from Can on 27 Jun 2021 at 19:35


7.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8

440ml can from Sainsbury's. Black beer with a very thin and short lived tan head. Lots of chocolate, coffee, vanilla aromas and flavours. But not much coconut, and I'm OK with that

Tried from Can on 29 May 2021 at 00:18