But if it truly is death by coconut for you, you might be able to take this one since the coconut flavor is tamped down just enough to make it a flavor rather than the feature. If you love the flavor of Death by Coconut, it’s still there. The coconut and the chocolate are still there. It comes across strongly in the 10.84% ABV beer. It was aged in second-use barrels that were loaded with a ton of rum flavor still. Why should you do that? Because this is a big, delicious beer. “We have a limited amount of it that we release in the taprooms every once in a while,” Senior Marketing Manager Aaron Baker tells Thrillist. However, if you’re lucky, you can still get a can or two of the high-ABV variant. This is the only variant the brewery has ever produced, and they only did it once. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images Brewer Brian Shaeffer works one of the two new fermentation tank at Oskar Blues Brewery. “It’s a perfect fall beer.”ĭeath by Coconut is made with desiccated coconut and liquid cacao from Boulder, Colorado’s Cholaca, as well as a malt bill featuring dark chocolate and extra-dark caramel malts. It doesn't sit too heavy but brings you back to beers that taste like you could sip them around a cabin fireplace under a blanket, lost in a book. It's a transition beer, welcoming you to fall. The coconut taste is slightly milder than the smell, but it's plenty present, sitting on top of a rich layer of bitter chocolatey, malty porter. Not at the level of the Imperial stouts that are getting seasonal releases over the next few months, but it’s full. When you pop the can open, you’re enveloped in a deep rush of coconut aroma like a cartoon character that’s disappeared behind a puff of white smoke.įor a 6.5% ABV beer, it’s thick and smooth. The expansion to national distribution has had hiccups along the way, but for the third year, you’ll be able to find it in cans distributed across the US.ĭeath by Coconut is an Irish Porter, but that certainly doesn't define what's happening inside the can. “It was something that was brewed on a small scale and was extremely well received.” The demand quickly outpaced what was available in taprooms and limited distribution inside Colorado. “Initially the beer was a collaboration between Oskar Blues and Shamrock Brewing Company,” says Juice Drapeau, head brewer at the Oskar Blues pilot brewery in Lyons, Colorado. The Irish porter was first brewed by Oskar Blues in 2014, but it’s only relatively recently that it’s expanded beyond the walls of the brewery’s taprooms.
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