Coopers Original Pale Ale

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

Vaguely metallic, but still very good. A nice robust charm from Australia to my bar night at the Brickskeller. (Washington DC)

Unclear pale yellow with small white head. Taste is refreshing with a ok bitter/sweet balance. Not much of a aroma but some sweet notes

From the bottle.

Pours light yellow-gold, relatively clear overall given the amount of floaty sediment.

The taste aroma is champagne and straw; the taste is mild but fairly clean and pleasurable, almost pilsnery, hints of fruit, a nice dry finish, not grainy like one might have expected. The palate is rather watery with abundant fizzy carbonation.

I can see how this would make a good hot-summer-day cookout beer. I’d be perfectly happy to work my way through a sixpack on a lazy afternoon at the beach.

Tap in Canberra. Pretty drinkable, much as described above, extremely highly carbonated, not as good as the better local amber/pale/india pale ales.

A musty aroma with a hint of mango tops this sludgy bottle conditioned number. Lightly carbonated with no head to speak of. Somewhat watery without much malt character, this ale is a bit fruity with a dry tingly finish. It doesn’t look good, it doesn’t really tast4e good. Disappointing.

Hoppy malty aroma. Cloudy yellow colour with fair to poor head and lacing. Sweet malt hop flavour. Very nice. Smooth palate.

12.7 oz bottle from Beers Around The World Kit (Christmas gift). The color of the beer looks good, a dark gold yellow, but is very cloudy with yeast particles floating around, almost like a German Wheat beer. Nice thick head subsides to absolutely nothing in about a minute with no lacing whatsoever. Very faint aroma. Tastes more carbonated than it looks, slightly bitter, slightly fruity (lemon), with a mild yeast aftertaste. Not quite as hoppy as most pale ales I’ve tried. I think it is decent, but as I am mostly a pilsner drinker, most pale ale fans may not find it flavorful enough.

I would haverated this beer higher if it wern’t for the appearance. This is the worst looking beer I have ever had. I could see the particles of yeast swimming with the carbination. After less than a minute there was a significant sediment in the bottom of my glass. Granted the beer did not taste as yeasty as it looked, but it is still unexcuseable. I can brew cleaner beer at my house.

Bottle. Cloudy pale yellow colour with long lasting white head. Malty yeast aroma. Flavor is a bit hoppy with some citrus hints and maltiness. Some yeasty aftertaste. Could be much better.