Mountain Sun Boggs Coconut Cream Stout

Brewed by Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery
Style: Sweet Stout
Boulder, Colorado USA

Draft [nitrogen-dispensed]: Penetrable ebony. Condensed cap of grayish foam. Pleasant nose of soft chocolate malt, roasted barley, vanilla beans, toasted coconut and burnt cookies. Watery, nitro-induced thinness. Black malt zing collides with well-rounded coconut oil and roasted barley. Delicate char lends some light coarseness while the toasted coconut dots the soft malt core with a smidge of sweetness. Slippery estery contribute a mousselike consistency which complements the lactose character. Nicely balanced. Finishes oily and brightly coconut-accented with unsweetened chocolate trailed by long-lasting hints of cocoa, raisin, nutty malt and roasted barley. Not necessarily flawed, but the nitrogen sure does cripple the malt as well as the body.

Crushed with Jakebra on tap at the brewpub. Coffee nose. Chocolate flavor. Great mouthfeel. Jakebra likened it to Left Hand’s Milk Stout. A decent brew.

Draught. Head is brown, mostly lasting. Body is dark brown to black. Aroma is lightly to moderately malty (chocolate, caramel), with notes of toasted coconut, vanilla. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, lightly to moderately bitter. Medium body, watery texture, soft carbonation. Toasted coconut note is obvious but not particularly strong...pleasant. A little *too* easy-going, maybe, but nice overall.

Tap. Pours an inky black color with a fairly small tan head. Aroma is rosted malt, chocolate, faint coconut. Flaror is toasted coconut, more rosted malt, chocolate. Palate is medium-full, mildly carbonated, sweet finish. Pretty good stuff. I wish the coconut would present itself a little more in the aroma.

Draught at the brewery 2.5.7. Nitro tap. Beer is very dark brown, nearly opaque. Head is initially small, creamy, light brown, clingy head. Slow Nitro diminish.<P> The aroma is malty with moderate notes of roasted grain, toasted bread, light notes of chocolate, and a trace of caramelized sugar; Hoppy with light notes of resin/pine, moderate floral/honeysuckle and rose; Light yeasty note of basement and a trace of dirty dish rag; Light miscellaneous notes of rum, oak, vanilla and currents. Nose nets out tropical and creamy—like suntan lotion or cream pie.<P> The flavor is moderately sweet, trace bitter with an average-length, lightly sweet, trace bitter finish. Very quaffable.<P> The body is light, the texture is watery and the carbonation is soft.<P> Desserty, toasty, neat. Could be bolder.