Coopers Original Pale Ale

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

Pours a golden color with a slight haze an a floatie or two. Aroma is light and spritzy, with sweet fruit and mild hop spice. Flavor is sweet and light again, medium fruit flavor with a mild and dry finish. Very mild and drinkable, though there is very little happening here to encourage a second purchase.

Hoppy nose. Yeast in the bottle. Hazy color, probably due to yeast, I did a crappy job of pouring it. Decent head. Taste is that of a very standard pale ale. The flavor is a little low on this one, but it has a nice dry and hoppy finish. I like this style of beer, so maybe I am biased and being generous, but I thought it was pretty decent. Would go pretty well on a hot summer’s day.

Bottled: Hazy yellow coloured. Small white head. Aroma and flavour is very bland and watery. Some flowery notes are there. Is light dry and quite refreshing, but all in all a boring exampel of the style.

Nice foamy head, almost creamy upon pouring. Dirty yellow, tending to orange in colour. Lively nose, some fruity notes, a little citrus. Decent mouthful, plenty of zing, and very refreshing. No world beater with flavour, just a fraction bland, although there are some nice hoppy notes at the back palate that firm the beer up a little, and again this drives the ’refreshing’ element. At about $2 a pop I reckon you can do worse.

Hazy orange color, under a small white head. Aroma is fresh and fruity, notes of peach apricot, some citrus. Mellow mouthfeel, decent showing of hops, but very minimal bitterness, and a lackluster finish. Pleasant and sweet, but nothing really sticks out. A fine session ale, if you don’t mind unassuming, easy-going flavor in your mug.

Fruity aroma, hazy pour from bottle fermenting, pale hazy yellow. Not much head. Not much to it... Tastes like a mediocre homebrew to me. And perhaps pale ales are a different breed down under, but where are the hops?? There is something pleasent inm the finish, but this is a rare beer in which that is the only strikingly redeeming factor. I really wanted to like this beer... I thought tomyself when I paid 9 bucks for a six (!!!) finally an OZ bear that isn’t more mass market swill.. but if I had the choice betwen this and a fosters... it would be easily the fosters that won (especially the bitter ... ;)

Citrus and lemon taste. Cloudy appearance with abit of sediment. I prefer this to the sparking version which I find too heavy. Cld be improved with abit more zest.

12.7 fluid oz. brown stubbie bottle. Freahness date of 28.11.05 inked on the side of the bottle. Damn twist off cap. I hate twist offs. Anyway, it poured out a pale golden yellow color, with a minimal white foamy head. I left the yeast in the bottle, because I didn’t feel like drinking it today. Watery tasting, thin body, minimal flavors and aromas. What aromas there are smell like weak, stale beer. Not a top notch pale ale in my book.