Coopers Mild Ale

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

Disappointing watered down version of sparkling ale. This beer is low on taste. I’d have it again if I were driving or if I wanted a quiet night, but that’s about it.

A welcome addition to the Coopers line for one reason: it provides a dash of Coopers character in the mid-strength range for nights when you fancy a Coopers but it’s your turn to drive. It’s not a mild in the English tradition. It’s more like the Sparkling Ale’s weedy second cousin. Bottle-conditioned, so it pours a cloudy gold colour. Thin head that quickly vamoosed. Classic Coopers nose - light and fruity. Thin-to-medium body - much lighter than the rest of the line-up. Apples and pear characters and a much shorter finish than the Sparkling Ale. I wouldn’t choose this over Coopers’ best but I’d rather have it than drink lite beer. (Bottle)

It’s always good to re-rate - like revisiting the night you got drunk and ranted about the beer in the first place. Pours a muddy, turbid, pastelly wooded gold. Head was no more than a tightly clung ring of white on the meniscus. Aroma a dull, almost misplaced sniff-at-the-wrong-time-and-you-miss-it, bready yeast belch. Quite fizzy in the mouth, displaces much of the distant flavours, hides them you could say! Quite bready, a tinsy showing of cordial fruitiness, and again pasty like the last tasting. Very clean liquor-wise, crisp in the swallow, with a slight showing of drawn pale fruits, a little more yeast. Blandness is its biggest fault. Still not a Mild!!! (37,5cL bottle, best after 07/04/06, The Beer Store Morley)

Aaaahhh!!! Mild Ale, my favourite style of beer. It has gone from a high gravity young beer, to a lightly hopped, low gravity beer, in just over a hundred years. Corporate greed, indeed. This one is a bit of a shambles, a step backwards for Mild Ales, everywhere. Poured a pale gold, with a ’Houdini’ disappearing head. From the can (I hope it’s better bottled) it hailed no aroma bar a little bready yeast. Palate wise, it bared citric, orange and tangerine flavours, similar bready yeast to the aroma that came across as chalky and a short, slightly bitter swallow. Light bodied, and braindeadedly sessionable, but never a MILD ALE!!!!!! (37,5cL can, best after 07/01/05) 1,2,5,3,7

Not much of anything going on here. A quick whiff of malt in the aroma. Another one with poor head retention. Flavor is generally beer-like, but its such a mish-mosh of very delicate malt, hop and yeast derived flavors that the "triple hopping" is lost in the shuffle. Carbonation in Cooper’s seems somewhat inconsistent, must be a function of the bottle conditioning. Thin body.

Bottle: Poured cloudy bonze-amber with a small and very short head. Not much aroma or taste but what there was was exactly like Asprin with a hint of malt which I found somewhat bizarre. The carbonation was a low point - lots of very big bubbles that took away from what little flavour there was. Saying all that, it was still a reasonable beer, just boring as hell.

Rather a bland beer, soft base malts with a slight hint of lightly roasted malt, very little in the way of hop character. The Coopers yeast struggles to impart any of its typical traits to such a light beer.

Cloudy bronze with circulating yeast particles and a weak head. Slight yeast aroma. Even more slight bitter citric flavour. Very watery and thin. Well, they achieved the mildness. Especially if mild means lacking taste.

Very faintly hazy medium gold with a tiny very short last head and a few bubbles. Very faint cardboard, wheat beer like bready yeast and grainy malt aroma. Soft watery quite low carb almost flat body - strange because one can still see some carbonation in the glass. Taste is mild lemon like bitter and a hint of sweet corn malt. I’d much rather have a Rogers, Not for me I’m afraid.