Coopers Best Extra Stout

Brewed by Coopers Brewery
Style: Foreign Stout
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Good stout, evident banana in the aroma. Roasty and sweet and just simply a nice thing to drink any given day. Yum yum.

750ml bottle. Best after 07/05/08...gotta love Coopers and their bottle conditioned beers! Emensly dark black body with a thick orangey tan-to-brown head painting the glass. Even when chilled, this beer gives off a robust oily, charcoal, nutty malt aroma. Notes of espresso, rich toffee, bitter chocolate and dark fruit come through as it warms. Body isn’t a huge as one would assume; very slippery oily texture, quite high slightly creamy carbonation makes it easy to down, astrigency cuts through quite quickly, coating the mouth and lingering for damn near an entirnity, length alluding to strength without being apparent. Grainy malts pack the body. Charcoal, wood, coffee, dark chocolate, roasted malt, burnt toast, some toffee, black grape tannin, dark berry and plum in there. Finish is dry, lots of bitterness, some bread and even espresso-like at times. Very well made stout, big length and strength that could easily be overlooked to the established stout drinker.

...pours a very dark brown, almost black with a dark tan head that is mostly lasting. Lots of roasted barely malt notes on the nose, some yeast, hints of almond and burnt bread. Highly carbonated, almost fizzy. Good flavors of dark malts, and not too thick. Alcohol is hidden well, not too overpowering with a medium body. Slightly coating texture, with a tofee dry finish. I was surprsised at the quality of this and will have it again.

Bottle->wine glass (all they had): Pours an average, rocky, light brown head atop a black body. Heavy malt aroma, average yeast aroma, and a burnt sugar and coffee aroma. Body is medium, texture is slick, and the finish is astringent. The flavor’s duration is long, lightly sweet and acidic. Not a bad stout, but nothing compelling to bring me back.

Bottle: Brown/Black with lightbrown head. Roasted nose with hops and coffee. Taste fresh roasted, coffe and sweet tone. Bitter coffe finish.

A black colored beer, with a foamy beige head. It disappears rather soon. The aroma of strong coffee with notes of dark roasted malts. The taste of chocolate, with coffee, dry bitterness. The roasted bitterness lingers on.

750ml bottle sampled from a snifter type glass. Good pour with a foamy head. Dark tan in colour with strong hoppy aromas

375 ml, best after 2007! Opaque with a quarter-inch foam that leaves nice webbing on the glass. Initial sweet aromas of molasses, char, marshmallow and graham cracker. Flavor is surprisingly much less sweet: roasty tastes of char, coffee and cocoa more than tame some light marshmallow, vanilla and molasses. Also some tangy green herbs to liven things up. Medium body is watery and nearly chalky dry.