Koko

BCBF 2025 Backlog.

Pours black, no head. Scent is full, sugary, coconut. Roasty, chocolate. Taste is full, roasty, coconut, candy bar. Sweet, syrupy, rather thick, OK. Bit chemical and one sided.

(473ml can from Luc, thanks!) Review lost in a tech problem so this is from memory. Pours basically black with a decent cappucino coloured head and lots of lace. Notes dominated by dark brown sugar and toffee with a hint of molasses, rather sweet chocolate and quite a lot of floral vanilla throughout the sip, fresh raw coconut creaminess in the middle of the sip and into the finish, smooth sweet black coffee type roastiness building through the sip. Initial high sweetness fades to off-dry and lightly bitter in the finish, lots of vanilla cream there, soft coconut and cacao aftertaste. Medium bodied, oily to creamy, soft carbonation, no alcohol. Nice smooth solid pastry stout, I was expecting more coconut and got more vanilla and for whatever reason the nose did not seem too punchy on this can. Well-made if not overly complex.