Coopers Best Extra Stout

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

aroma is bread and malt; black appearance; brown disappearing head; malty molasses and coffee flavor with good bitterness; long coffee finish with a tobacco(?) aftertaste; I do like it, though it’s not a top one for me.

Bottle at home ... deep black ... thin off white head ... nice lots of dark chocolate malts in nose ... little sweet ... rich roast malt ... lots of dark chocolate malt ... some ovaltine malt.

Bottle. Pours a deep black body with nice ehad. Aroma is of sweet roasted malt, light chocolate tones. Flavor is bitter, chocolate, roasted coffee. Very drinkable.

THOUGHTS: Chocolate and coffee flavor. It’s nice to know there are better things than Foster’s being brewed in the land down under. I like my goriegn stouts a little sweeter and more complex, but this is still a very good beer. Just kept getting better as it warmed. I’d like to have this again on a cold winter night. A must try for dark beer lovers. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a dark brown that appeared opaque black in the glass with an average-sized tan head. The beer was bottle conditioned and I should have read the lable that informs you of this and instructs you to mix the sediment up and pour it right in, so I had some small particles of thin density floating around, but that didn’t detract from the beer at all. It’s just a warning to read the lable’s on beer bottles. The aroma was moderately milk chocolate and mild coffee along with wom light to moderate hopsa, a little dark fruit and an almost Hot Chocolate Powder Mix scent. The initial flavor was moderately sweet and lightly bitter, while the finish was moderately sweet and moderately to heavily bitter with an average duration. The body was medium to full, oily and a little dry with fizzy carbonation and a slightly chalky finish.

375 mm bottle - Opaque black with a dark tan, long lasting head. Full bodied with low carbonation. Roast barley, black coffee, black chocolate and molasses all rolled into one and with a great bitter finish. A great stout!

An excelent stout. An opaque black liquid with a large frothy dark tan head . Some chunky pieces of sediment noticed on the bottom of the glass. Medium bodied with average carbonation and a sweet malty coffee flavour. A nice bitter finish. I liked this one a lot! (Bottle)

Bottled 375ml. It pours a black beer with a nice, rather strongly tanned beige head. Very pleasant and rich aroma of tar, arabica coffee, eucalyptus and hints of dark chocolate. A strong bitter taste with some excellent coffee elements. A very enjoyable mouthfeel. Strong and generously bitter. A banana touch and a lingering spiciness to this beer. Lots of malt. Light hints of madeira, an alcohol note. A surprising, excellent whisky-like finish. What a nice beer!

Bottle @ the Linkery. Aroma is light, malty and airy. Pour is black with a 1 finger than head. The taste is light and sweet, not a bad foreign stout.