Thanks for the reply! I think maybe fresh coconut, desiccated coconut and coconut milk, could get more flavour, might end up rather cloudy though... I will experiment and post up! Does the Lactose make a big difference, not really a milk fan.
Do you add the coconut at the start and leave it through-out the ferment?
About a year ago my daughter-in-law (works for NASA) was down at the Stennis Center north of 'Nawlins' on business for a few days. The group did some bar hopping one evening and she ordered a Lounging Iguanas IPA that she wanted me to clone. I worked up a recipe but never got around to actually brewing it, even though I obtained all the ingredients. Lots of coconut and pineapple (Pina colada for sure). Here it is. Let me know how it tastes if you brew it. DIL keeps bugging me about when I'll get around to brewing it:
5 gallon batch
Water adjustments for American IPA
Targets: OG 1.062
FG 1.008
ABV 7.2%
IBUs 50.4
SRM 6.1
Grains:
6# Pale ale malt Step mash 113F for :15 mins (Beta glucan)
6# White wheat Step mash 148F for :45 mins (Beta Amylase)
1# Flaked oats Step mash 158F for :30 mins (Alpha amylase)
0.5# 40L Mash out 169F
Couple handfuls of rice hulls to prevent a stuck mash/sparge
75 minute boil
Galaxy 0.25 oz FWH
Galaxy 0.75 oz :20 min WP @ 180F
Cryo Mosaic. 1.00 oz :20 min WP @ 180F
Cryo Citra 2.00 oz :20 min WP @ 180F
I do a single stage fermentation in a conical with a trub dump somewhere around day 24 when the slow cold crash has reached a temperature in the upper 40s and most of the yeast and adjuncts have finished and fallen out. This recipe uses Hornidal Kveik which is fast, clean, highly flocculant and attenuative, and doesn't compete with the fruit flavors.
Hornidal Kveik @ 63F for 7 days; after that 7 day period add 3 oz toasted coconut flakes, 0.50 fl. oz. coconut flavoring, 0.50 fl. oz. pineapple flavoring, then raise 2F/day to 72F (then hold 72F for 3 days), then slowly crash 2F/day to 38F (17 days) for cold crash and conditioning. Rack to keg or bottle.
I'm anxious to try it (so's my daughter-in-law) but I've had other priorities. Let me know how it comes out if you brew it. Cheers.
Brooo Brother