Shanty Bounty ➯ A Coconut Porter from Herzl

Shanty Bounty from Herzl Brewery: A Porter beer with roasted coconut.

Shanty Bounty from the Herzl Brewery (in the Tefen Industrial Park) is a Porter-style beer, known for its dark color, roasty taste and full body.  The name comes from 18^th century London, where it was a favorite of the hard-working porters.

It's the same base beer as an earlier Porter from Herzl, known as Embargo because it contained tobacco leaves from Cuba!  

[Read about the original Embargo here.]  

Shanty Bounty is tobacco-free, but is brewed with roasted coconut and oatmeal.  In fact, the name Bounty comes from the popular chocolate-coated coconut candy bar sold in Israel.  (In the U.S., it's called Mounds.)  ABV is 6%.  

Being a generous soul, I shared a bottle with fellow IBAV Tasters Oded, Bat Sheva and Manny.

The original chocolate-covered coconut candy bar: The namesake of Shanty Bounty  Coconut Porter beer from Herzl Brewery.

The color of the beer is very dark, as befits a porter, and the aroma is unmistakably roasted coconut, with some background caramel and malt.  For Bat Sheva, it was the "aroma of summer," since she was reminded of the coconut-smelling suntan lotion that is so prevalent on Israeli beaches.           

It tastes very sweet, giving center stage to coconut and vanilla.  Oded opined that it was too sweet for his taste, but was a "good idea."  Manny too, called it "a tasty beer, but not for me."

I am also not a fan of sweet beers, but I love coconut.  If you like both, have I got a beer for you!