Sorry to bump for update.
Anyone brewed this again? I'm going to try it next week.
Any thoughts on what adding some coconut water would do to this? from a green fresh coconut not from a store but from the tree - the clear water not milky... The coconut water that I've had (you cut a hole in the nut and drink the water out of a straw) taste mild, bitter, slightly sour . a lot of islander people drink it straight. It has a good amount of potassium.
Just a thought.
Interesting thought, don't know how that would affect it but below is the final version of what I did back in October. This one was the best by far. I also had some guys from Stone Brewery, including Bill Sysak (
http://beeradvocate.com/community/threads/who-is-dr-bill-sysak.2266/) try it and he said it was phenomenal. I have given him beers before and he just says meh half the time so I know he meant it!
Grains & Adjuncts
Amount Percentage Name Time Gravity
24.00 lbs 77.29 % Pale Malt (2 Row)
1.50 lbs 4.83 % Briess Carapils
0.55 lbs 1.77 % Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
5.00 lbs 16.10 % Corn Sugar (Dextrose)
1.00 lbs Coconut 15m left in boil
Hops
Amount IBU's Name Time AA %
1.50 ozs 33.38 Warrior 60 mins
0.70 ozs 15.18 Columbus (Tomahawk) 60 mins
1.00 ozs 19.99 Citra 60 mins
1.00 ozs 15.36 Citra 30 mins
1.00 ozs 12.53 Mosaic 30 mins
1.50 ozs 6.45 Galaxy 5 mins
2.00 ozs 7.97 Citra 5 mins
1.25 ozs 4.06 Mosaic 5 mins
1.00 ozs 2.83 Centennial 5 mins
1.50 ozs Galaxy 5 days
1.00 ozs Mosaic 5 days
1.00 ozs Citra 5 days
1.50 ozs Centennial 5 days
.5 lb unsweetened coconut 1-3 days (don't over do this!)
Dry English Ale White Labs 0007 (big starter)
Mashed at 148F
Notes:
- Total of 2lbs of coconut. 1lb in the boil and then .5lbs into each fermenter/keg.
- 2lbs of sugar into the boil; 1.5lbs sugar dissolved and tossed into each fermenter when fermentation shows signs of slowing.
- Could have used cal ale yeast and would have been great too I'm sure, I just had that on hand.
- Definitely the untoasted coconut is my favorite of the batches I've done. The toasted coconut added too much of a burnt/roasted flavor even if you don't over toast it.
- The 60 minute hop additions did not have to be all that, I just had some hops I wanted to get rid of and they were all clean bittering, high AA.
- I really like the addition of centennial and mosaic in the recipe as well, it adds more depth of flavor!
- Only issue I had was FG stopped at 1.014 instead of what i would have rather had of around 1.010 to dry it out a bit more but not a big deal.
If you brew it and you keg the beer, I would do the coconut in the boil, then dry hop it and then see if you need more coconut or not. Just be careful with the dry coconutting, it imparts flavor fast! You definitely get a HUGE amount of aroma and flavor though when you dry hop it, so I would suggest doing it some.
The best rounded flavor I was able to get was after doing what I have listed above. If you do too much of the coconut it comes across too sweet, and if you hop it too much it will overpower the coconut.
Brew it up and let me know what you think! I would love to hear some other feedback besides every person I gave a bottle too asking for more everytime they see me nowadays!
I swear, at work, like every week or so someone else asks me when I'm going to brew it again! Funny!