BJCP Category for Coconut Porter

[udubdawg]

@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.

I judged the category and tried to point this out last year but…
we had multiple coconut beers, and a couple of 16Es too.  shrug
IMO a blackberry gose with brett deserved the gold.  Every judge said it was the best.

Basically we need to find these things before the Final Round.  Asking people to ship 3 more bottles at their own expense and then telling them “sorry, you’re not eligible for a medal” is wrong.  (again, IMO)

cheers–
–Michael