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Courtesy of Perennial Artisan Ales in St. Louis, Missouri, here is a homebrew-sized version of a big-bodied imperial stout that gets a pile of coconut for a decadent, chocolate-macaroon-like character.
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Phil Wymore, Perennial cofounder and brewmaster, says that it takes quite a bit of coconut to bring out its flavor in big imperial stouts such as this one—and he and his team have dialed it up over the years. If you brew a beer like this and the coconut isn’t evident enough for you, he says, “you just have to keep putting more and more into it.”
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