Coopers Dark Ale

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

Pours a cloudy and hazed brown with a head that doesn’t stick around at all. Nose is malty and caramel sweet. Flavor is a fair bit of coffee, but a lot of bitter on there too which I think detracts. As you go on the bitter leaves and the smoother coffee tones dominate more so. As time goes on, even those tones get washed out by a watery flavor profile. Potential, but doesn’t come through when it needs to. Feel is a bit lower on carbonation. On the liquid level it is fairly average. Overall a fairly low performance on this one. I can’t say this is really worth cracking open.

Nose of sweet roasts, more Coca Cola than beer. Brown pour, no head, no lace. Taste of a little malts, barely discernible that this is a dark beer, a little hops, maybe, but no bitterness, but without the hateful spoiled taste of its lighter cousin. I can’t imagine drinking the rest of this one or even cooking with it ... this one will be sacrificed as a source of steam for my smoker.

Bottle, sweet, metallic, very carbonated, not much flavor or aroma, or texture its a below average brown.

bottle at cropredy 2007 ... deep black ... blackcurrent and chocolate nose ... bit too fizzy, well way to fizzy i stirred it till it went flat ...complex ... sweet smooth roast malts ... This to me is what a mild should be all be a bit too high in alchohol.

Bottle, Dodgy Deli, Oxford. Leather brown, small light tan head. Earthy chocolate aroma, a bit of that rustic Coopers sour note. Gentle brown bread roast, bright carbonation. Dry finish. Unimaginative, but still enjoyable.

Brown colour with a little head, nothing special looking. A nutty flavour with a definite hint of chemicals. Not sure what to make of it. Somewhat enjoyable, somewhat not.

Bottle. This didn’t press any of my buttons. Cloudy brown with a moderate head. Aroma of molasses. thin in the mouth, with a flavour of dark fruits and next to no finish. Disappointing.

Pours a dark brown with very little head. A slight aroma of coffee and burnt wood. A lot of carbonation, the bubbles made it quite harsh on the tongue. Initial taste was a little malty, but also quite bitter. Practically no aftertaste, it was rather watery. Dissapointing, considering the high quality of all the other Cooper’s beers I’ve tried.