What category is a Coconut Porter?

[sivdrinks]

Porter or Fruit Beer?

 

[Yooper]

For the purposes of BJCP competitions, it is a 21A if you can actually taste or otherwise discern the coconut.

 

[weirdboy]

It is a fruit beer with the base style being the type of porter.

 

[sivdrinks]

Thanks, what I was thinking. The coconut better come through, it's close to 2 pounds!

 

[lafolielapper]

so is it fruit or spice herb vegetable...I saw two answers!???

 

[sivdrinks]

so is it fruit or spice herb vegetable...I saw two answers!???

Oh yeah. Isn't coconut a fruit? Shouldn't it be in 20A?

 

[Yooper]

Oh yeah. Isn't coconut a fruit? Shouldn't it be in 20A?

I've only seen them in 21A. Aren't coconuts considered a nut? I guess technically the coconut meat would be the fruit, but a coconut itself would be a nut of a coconut palm tree.

 

[sivdrinks]

I've only seen them in 21A. Aren't coconuts considered a nut? I guess technically the coconut meat would be the fruit, but a coconut itself would be a nut of a coconut palm tree.

Hmmm. I'll take your word for it, you've seen way more competition than me. I just don't wanna get DQ for wrong category. I have till May to figure it out.

 

[weirdboy]

I've only seen them in 21A. Aren't coconuts considered a nut? I guess technically the coconut meat would be the fruit, but a coconut itself would be a nut of a coconut palm tree.

Well I entered mine as a fruit beer and it won the category....so I think 20 works.

 

[drathbone]

FYI, botannically it's actually a "drupe", which is a fruit, along the lines of cherries or plums that have skin, pulpy flesh then a hard seed in the middle. Here is an explanation that helped me understand it best:

"The coconut is considered a dry drupe with a green, waterproof outer layer (exocarp), a thick, buoyant, fibrous husk (mesocarp) and a hard, woody, inner layer (endocarp) surrounding the large seed. The actual seed embryo is embedded in the coconut meat (endosperm). Nutrient-rich coconut milk is liquid endosperm that has not formed firm tissue with cell walls."

 

[sivdrinks]

FYI, botannically it's actually a "drupe", which is a fruit, along the lines of cherries or plums that have skin, pulpy flesh then a hard seed in the middle. Here is an explanation that helped me understand it best:

"The coconut is considered a dry drupe with a green, waterproof outer layer (exocarp), a thick, buoyant, fibrous husk (mesocarp) and a hard, woody, inner layer (endocarp) surrounding the large seed. The actual seed embryo is embedded in the coconut meat (endosperm). Nutrient-rich coconut milk is liquid endosperm that has not formed firm tissue with cell walls."

Endosperm Stout. Sounds.....tasty???