Coopers Regency Draught

Formerly brewed at Coopers Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Bottled (labelled Regency Draught). Pale golden, small head. A light flavoured beer with a light-medium body and a hint of bread and crystal malt. A fair amount of grassy hops make for some late bitternss. Easy drinking beer with no flaws.

Draught@National festival Of Beers, Brisbane, 03’. Not very good at all. Wheres the flavour? Watery, soft, and a little bit fizzy, not much going on.

nfob03. i'm assuming this is the new coopers draught that is also known as regency draught. medicinal aroma. average as far as bad lagers go but what's that got to do with coopers?

This has been retired for a while, but in updating my label collection since my latest trip to Oz I found my notes on this one from 2 years ago. My notes say: "WTF? why would Coopers bother? stinky and overprocessed." In the face of the other fine ales they make, it’s no wonder this one didn’t last.

Drinkable but that is as far as it goes. Dusty grainy malty sort of taste.Thin body and leaves you wanting less.

The nondescript blurb is backed up by the beer. With words that refer to chill filtered beer and the reference to draught beer means that you are looking at a fair dinkum dud. The nose is musty and there is no body of note at all. I hate it when you burp DURING the drinking of a beer and then feel the afterburn in the dry back palate. If you drank it out of a dimpled mug as suggested, you would be the same thing, perhaps without the dimple.

Very faintly hazy pale gold with medium size shortlish lasting creamy yellow head. Faint eggshells, soap, asprin and stale bitter aroma. Thin dry body. Medium intensity short stale bitter start fades to shades of faint soft watery malt back to harshish bitter finish and after taste. Few redeeming features. I find it hard to rate - Hmmm is the "Adhesive tape, melted rubber and faint floral sweet hops aroma" of the Old Draught more interesting than this one or not?

Rebranded as Coopers Regency Draught. Poured a hazy gold with a quick-diminishing 1cm head. Un-Cooperslike aroma. The skunkiest beer they’ve produced to date - well done, lads. Faint hints of the house fruitiness but this bottle has a peculiar musty vegetal odour that doesn’t appeal. Plenty of sweet malt upfront on the tongue with a decent shot of Pride of Ringwood bitterness. Tastes better than it smells. Especially if you enjoy a bowl of cornflakes. It’s not unspeakably bad but it’s a mystery why they bother with this sort of stuff.