Dragons Milk Coconut Rum Clone?

[Nicksbees]

Hi every one,
I was at New Holland Last Night and had the new Dragons milk Coconut Rum it was amazing! Would anyone be able to help me with ideas to get the Coconut and Rum taste?
Thanks Nick

 

[Dfitz]

Maybe soak oak chips in coconut rum?

 

[Vandulus]

This is supposed to hit regular distribution November 1st (my birthday - how nice of them) and I can't wait to try it out. I might get two bottles - one to try and one to cellar.

 

[Vandulus]

Just picked up a 4 pack today and wow, was it awesome! I'll be interested if anyone figures out how to clone it.

 

[rootster]

I think this beer is incredible. To me, the flavor is spot on with Malibu Rum.

 

[Nicksbees]

Ok i brewed up a clone of Dragons Milk today went pretty good, hit an OG of 1.095 instead of 1.099 but pretty Close. So if I am going for the coconut rum should I soak the Oak chips in rum instead of Bourbon? For the Coconut taste I am planning on adding Coconut extract at kegging time.

 

[Vandulus]

I don't know what kind of oak chips you're planning on using, but I'd use American oak with a very light toast to get the flavor profile you're looking for.

 

[rootster]

The brewery said they use Jamaican rum barrels, but they are not allowed to say what distillery.

 

[greeze]

This is funny that this post has come up. I have a clone thats is as good...maybe better (little more abv). I tried the new holland`s at Thanksgiving and I was shocked how close their brew was to mine.
I brewed a bourbon county stout clone back in Aug. I put it on yeast cakes from a prior batch of BCS (1st time trying that, lesson learned) the prior batch finishing at 13% killed off all the yeast, so after 2 days of no activity with the new batch we pitched 6 packs of us05 and it took off. Long story short it fell short of F.G. at 1.046 and 1.048 and had a out of characteristic flavor from the failed fermentation (should have been 1.032 or so)
We put the batch into 3rd use balcones bourbon barrels anyhow and let it sit 6 weeks. After 6 weeks we kegged it and carb`d it. tastes testing verified it was not on target for what we were aiming for but still good...I decided to add a flavoring (1st time ever) I wanted to do something different with this one since it was out of the profile already. Top Shelf has a liquor flavoring "http://www.homebrewing.org/Top-Shelf-Coconut-Rum_p_5899.html" I added that to both kegs and counter pressured bottled them. tastes spot on for the new holland dragon milk coconut rum (mines more viscous due to the 4 hr boil) http://newhollandbrew.com/our-beer/dragons-milk-reserve-coconutrumbarrel/
Feather in the cap is we traded a single bottle for a 2016 raspberry eisbock (released today http://www.kbrewery.com/) the owners father loves the coconut rum stout so much he let a bottle of this go before release for a trade!

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