Best time to add coconut

[superiorsat]

I tried a very light toasting once and had a similar result. I was looking for more fresh coconut and got essence of coconut. If I didn't tell someone it was in the beer it could have went unnoticed. The browner the toast the more flavor you get.

 

[RyPA]

I'm looking for a coconut bomb, I used I think 2 lbs and it had no flavor, pretty disappointing.

 

[bwible]

So I’m confused. This thread jumped from Dec 4, 2021 to Oct 10, 2022. Then you said you didn’t like it. Are you talking about the Apex flavor or coconut you added? You mention 2 lbs of coconut. Is this a recent beer or are we catching up on a beer from last year?

 

[Miraculix]

I am starting to piece together the ingredients for a coconut cream stout recipe and am wondering when the ideal time is to add the coconut. I plan to use 2 lbs of organic unsweetened coconut flakes, or more based on the feedback that I get in this thread. I plan to toast it before adding.

To get the most coconut flavor, based on your experience, when is the ideal time to add it?

All at 10 minutes left in the boil
All at 0 minutes
Some in the boil, some in the secondary
All in the secondary (I am leaning towards this)

I'll most likely use multiple bags in the secondary to hopefully help enhance the coconut flavor, and make kegging not a nightmare.

I searched some threads and watched some youtube videos and it seems like the brewer says that the flavor is there but hardly. I'm a huge coconut fan, so while I'm not looking for a coconut beer, I want to have a pronounced coconut taste.

Best time to add coconut to a beer is never.

 

[bwible]

Best time to add coconut to a beer is never.

Seriously though, everybody makes what they like. My wife likes coconut stout, we’ve had a couple good ones.

At least its only coconut and not some recipe for a chocolate chicken chipotle pot pie porter with bananas and habenero. Believe me, I’ve seen worse. People seem to always think they should do something just because they can.

 

[Miraculix]

As long as I'm never seeing a blueberry chicken stock stout, it's kind of OK with me .

 

[RyPA]

So I’m confused. This thread jumped from Dec 4, 2021 to Oct 10, 2022. Then you said you didn’t like it. Are you talking about the Apex flavor or coconut you added? You mention 2 lbs of coconut. Is this a recent beer or are we catching up on a beer from last year?

No, this is the same beer. I initially conditioned on lightly toasted coconut, cacao nibs, and vanilla beans. I did a taste test afterwards and didn't get any coconut flavor so I added extract to the same batch, hoping to salvage it.

My favorite colder weather beer is made by a local brewery (Kane), it's an imperial stout conditioned on coconut, vanilla, and cacao - I was trying to make something close to it. Coconut plays well with stouts.

 

[BongoYodeler]

+1 on the Apex/Silver Cloud Toasted Coconut flavoring. I added some to a keg of Left Hand Milk Stout clone recipe on this site. Came out delicious. Several friends did a blind tasting between Firestone Coconut Merlin, Hiwa Coconut Porter, and my HB, (without being told that one was a HB). Consensus was that all three were very good, and everyone was surprised that one of the three was a HB.