With new releases from cannery, Oskar Blues, I thought it time to taste-off two porters. One with coffee and one with coconut. Who will win?
DBC is really coconut filled to the point of being a liquid version of a Mounds chocolate bar. Truth in beer name advertising for sure. The aroma of coconut is just huge and that flavor never leaves. There is a touch of smoke, very faint. But this is coconut first, second and last. And it is very viscous both on the glass and the palate.
Hotbox Coffee Porter is the java version and there is more balance here. The viscosity and the chocolate are more equal players in this porter. In fact the coffee might be ranked third in flavor strength.
Neither beer really rocked my taste buds. But I would take the Hotbox over Death if given the choice.
I’d agree. I enjoyed the Hotbox much more than Death by Coconut.
I would think the DBC would be a polarizing beer.