Coopers Dr. Tims Traditional Ale

Brewed by Coopers Brewery
Style: Golden Ale/Blond Ale
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

The best thing about this beer was it was cold. Really a rather bland ale with more in common with VB than Coopers Pale Ale. Another disspaointing brew from Coopers, they could do so much better than the stuff they’re churning out lately.

Quite a decent yellow hue with lots of floaties. A little on the synthetic side and a bt fizzy. Not a colourful as other coopers products but quite nice nevertheless.

Recently bought a slab of this on special. I’m well accustomed to Coopers Pale Ale, and this is very similar, and about as good as you’ll get from a beer that comes in a can. Pale Ale has more bite to it, stronger flavour overall and is more refreshing. However, Dr Tims has less sediment, a smoother taste and doesn’t bloat you like Pale does. I’ve scored them the same, they’re much the same quality. kshort is right, it’s purpose made for music festivals, most festivals and bigger gigs in Adelaide exclusively serve this stuff and Coopers Lager, since you can’t exactly brain the lead singer with an empty can, can you? I drink Pale more, but I’m more then happy to switch to this excellent stuff if it’s on offer.

Pours a cloudy yellow from the can, with a large foamy white head. Some citrus fruit on the nose. A medium mouthfeel but quite spritzy on the palate. Thins in the swallow, with some citrus flavour. A hoppy dry finish.

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!