Coopers Dry Beer

Brewed by Coopers Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Bottled. Pale golden. no head. Ricey sake aroma. Dry with loads of adjuncty rice flavour and some bread. Light bodied, but not thin. Low bitterness. Save for the bready malt flavour there is not much reason to chose this over, say, VB.

Slight sweetness at the start, with a dry, sort-of-hoppy finish, very light, but manages to have a bit of flavour. Quite clean in taste as the description says.

something in between coopers sparkling ale and vb. not really satisfying for fans of either. still, i am counting my calories these days

Another example of "found this single bottle in the cooler" beers (always makes me a little wary). Anyway, turns out to be fairly unremarkable pale lager. It is quite dry, which I kind of liked.

Harsh yeast aroma?, orange colour with a compact lasting head. Not much taste, dry but hardly any other flavours maybe some ginger.

I think a reference to clean often means that the beer is going to lack flavour. The fact that yeast is repitched means that it is going to do a bit of a vacuum job on residual sugars and other factors that give a beer its enjoyable mouthfeel. Also the fact that the beer comes in at 4.5% AFTER longer fermentation means that the wort must have been pretty weak in the first place. It is strange how DB always seems like diet beer, or diabetic or dribble. Suppose they have to brew something for the Dopey Bastards, Dumb Broads or Dumbo Blimps of the world.

Pours a chill-filtered clear gold with a hello-goodbye 1cm head. Bit of pineapple in a generally fruity aroma. Oddly, this has less aroma than their light beer. Thin in the body and as dry as a bushfire in the finish. Lots of fruit upfront but little in the way of a finish. Heavily carbonated. Better than I expected but I can’t think of a reason to choose this over the Sparkling Ale or Pale Ale.

Another of my attempts to find a ’diet’ beer. At least it has some taste. Sweetish, non-bitter lager that is a bit weak. Having said that it’s not horrible.