Coopers Dark Ale

Brewed by Coopers Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Nutty brown ale aroma. Maybe a hint of raisin and chocolate. Dark cloudy brown with small golden bits (it’s bottle conditioned). Chocolaty flavor, some malt, some hop. Tiny bubbles, but a bit thin. Finishes a bit dry, with a hint of sour, then the chocolate returns. Really pleasant, and not at all harsh like most American browns.

Average, middle of the road beer that did nothing for me. Aroma weak, appearance average, and the flavor was okay, but nothing stood out in the taste. Really enjoyed the Cooper’s Sparkling Ale and Pale Ale, but think I’ll pass on this one.

nutty chocolate aroma. a dry roasty brown ale. the roasted barley really shows through in the flavor. it also has a lot of pale qualities. not very sweet at all. interesting beer. brown color with a small off white head.

Bottle shared with HogTownHarry. Pours a murky dark brown with an average size diminishing off-white head and tons of floaties. Sweet yeasty aroma of nuts, caramel malt, chocolate and dark fruit. Muted lightly roasted flavour of dark malt, light chocolate and a hint of nuts with a slightly metallic finish. Light bodied. It’s O.K., I’ve had worse Browns then this but it’s still pretty mediocre and somewhat dissapointing.

Bottle (12oz). Shared with blankboy, his bottle. Poured deep mahogany with a huge flock of chunkies, smallish biege head. Some light caramel malt, but I get sulfurous yeast, dry scorched grain - not very nice. Taste follows - this is a bit like caramel-flavoured water strained through harsh grains and broken nutshells - lightly carbonated, sort of ugly aftertaste, watery body - the pale was okay, this is pretty substandard.

Bottled. Disappointing, as this had been recommended by the proprietor of a fine wine and beer store as one of his favorites. I should have opted for Cooper’s excellent stout and left this one on the shelf.

Looked like it had potential, but fell short in all categories, just plain thin. It wasn’t bad, with good hints of chocolate and caramel, but nothing great.

Poured from bottle into a shaker glass. I initially didn’t like the aroma, but the early medicinal smell dissapated and gave way to some mildly roasty malts, and then more sweet. mellow maltiness. The color was dark brown and cloudy with a hint of red. It had a medium-lasting off white head. In the flavor I was dissappointed that much of the rich malty aroma (that I waited so patiently for) didn’t transfer over. Also there was something unpleasant in the finish that I’ve noted in some other Cooper’s products. I’m not sure what it is, but I don’t like it. The body was of medium thickness and very overcarbonated.