BJCP Category for Coconut Porter

[AmandaK]

@udubdawg

from this forum a couple years ago…
good enough for me.

@gordonstrong

21a is the right place.  I’ll clarify in the next set of guidelines.  The intent of fruit vs SHV beers is to keep to the culinary interpretation of the ingredient not the botanical one.  If (God help us) you made a tomato beer, it would be entered in 21a not 20.  Coconut tastes more like macadamia nuts and cashews than it does raspberries and cherries.  So it goes in 21.  I thought ‘nut’ was good enough, but apparently not.  That was the intent, though.

Nice find!

But didn’t a coconut stout win Category 20 at last year’s NHC? I think until the guidelines get updated we will keep having this question and have no clear answer.

EDIT: Yeah, “Koko’s Nut Porter” won Category 20 last year.