[Buddylee000]

Our home brew club had a brew competition where we drew ingredients to make a beer. My recipe includes:

8lb pale malt
4lb rye malt
1lb vienna
8oz special roast
4oz caraaroma
added toasted coconut to the secondary.

If I wanted to enter this beer in a competition which category would this fall under? My thought is the Rye IPA but with the addition of coconut does this change the category it should be entered in?

[denny]

Yes, adding coconut takes it out of the straight category.  And I'd think carefully about a Rye IPA  with coconut.

[kramerog]

If the cocount is noticeable, the beer would end up in the spice, herb, vegetable category.

[denny]

If the cocount is noticeable, the beer would end up in the spice, herb, vegetable category.

And if it's not noticeable, what's the point?