Great canned drink, is based on the Pale Ale model but with a name change. Defiently holds up on it’s own and one of the few beers that I drink from a can.

Murky yellow body with white head, lemony floral aroma. Smooth - but fairly plain tasting pale ale.

’kshort’s’ seminal, sadly textbook PR marketing comments aside, I got the honour of actually trying this one (I suppose it weighs in softly as some type of honour!!!). From a silver can with repetitive swirls of Cooper’s in green. No date stamp as it came fresh from the brewery through an agent to Perth. Into a tight flute, chilled, laid to rest for a good few hours. It produced an opaque, pastel, lemony yellow. No visible carbonation. Head was a mere lapse of sodden white foam that died off too quick for remembrance. Wow, aroma, caught short on first - 20 second delay - second - forty odd seconds of yeast bitten eggy fart, this was rancid for a good minute and continued with underlying autolysis-like burps for the entire length. Pushed aside, the aroma held little tid-bits of celery and vine-clippings, fresh cracked pepper, some passionfruit and old, stale Cottee’s™ lemon cordial. Just reeks ’Chug-a-lug!’. Spritzy, bouncy, fizzy muddle of over-attenuated ale in the mouth. Its got a carbonic bite that is undeniable (how?). Sour malt mid-palate, lemony, stale malt and hop mash in back with lashings of grapefruit and again celery washing in throughout. Finish drops off shallow and shy, crisp and weighted by a hefty burst of Carbon Dioxide. Yeast seems to linger in the mouth quite long to become unpleasant. Not rancid to taste, but for me, after so many beers this just does nothing, not a single upward flinch of muscle in my face. I love the Cooper’s brewery, still use their fermenters, have met most of the family and have toured the new plant across from where I studied in SA, but this is one that needs review. Revolutionary like the first canned beers after prohibition in the U.S., but nothing special. Another no doubt will follow, but....

This is a great hoppy bitter ale, the first ale in the world to be naturally gassed and conditioned in the can - hence the yeast in the tin. Duffman has no clue, this is a purpose made beer. You cannot take bottles into many Live Music festivals - until this beer was released, you could only therefore buy Lagers, Bitters or Draughts at these events - NOW you can get ALE!! This is a superb can of beer, better than any other tinned beer around. If you are an idiot and your mind thinks that it can taste metal, then drink Cooper’s Pale Ale! but australian drinking regulations say that these tins cannot leach any metals into foodstuffs - so your mind is playing tricks on you!

I tried this while in the East Kimberley. I’m always suspicious of any beer that is brewed for distribution in a can only-- a dubious distinction that seems to cry out "I am such a crap beer that they won’t even spend that little extra to put me in a bottle!" In my experience, all beers that are canned become "naturally conditioned" to taste a little like the can they come from, so this was no selling point for me. Poured a dirty hazy dark yellow, reminiscent of Metamucil. Head was gone in less than one minute. Faintly yeasty nose, a little sweet, and yes, a little metallic too. Watery thin palate, not much in the way of flavour (unlike nearly all of the other beers Coopers makes), but drinkable in the hot Kununarra sun. I’ve certainly had much worse from a can, but that isn’t much of a compliment really.