We put Kokos in Beer 🍺
When Brothers Beer set out to brew their first-ever chocolate stout, they needed worthy cacao. They came to us!
The beer was Velvet Love Potion, a creamy, 6.9% winter stout built on chocolate malt, oats and wheat, with cacao nibs and vanilla folded in. Brothers Beer is one of Auckland's best-known craft breweries, with a tap room on the city fringe in Mt Eden. Head brewer Brandon Nash said it was the first time they'd ever brewed a chocolate stout.
In a guided tasting filmed for the launch in June 2022, Brandon raised a glass and the brewery gave a "huge shout out to @auntytommys for the best cacao in town." For a koko brand barely off the ground, having an established brewery choose our Pacific cacao for a milestone brew was awesome.
It's also the point we keep coming back to: Koko Samoa isn't only for the cup at home. In the right hands it becomes other things — a stout, a dessert, a new way for people to taste the Pacific. We're proud our cacao helped pour Brothers first stout beer.
Sources
Brothers Beer (@brothersbeernz) — "Guided Tasting: Velvet Love Potion Chocolate Stout," (Instagram, 7 June 2022): https://www.instagram.com/p/CeeusLpJ7AB/
Orakei Bay Village — "Meet the Makers: Brandon Nash of Brothers Beer," (September 2022): https://www.obv.co.nz/blog/brandon-nash
Brothers Beer — Velvet Love Potion product details (chocolate malt, oats, wheat, cacao nibs, vanilla): https://www.craftboxdirect.com/beer/brothers-beer-velvet-love-potion-chocolate-stout-12x440ml/
