Coopers Special Old Stout

Formerly brewed at Coopers Brewery
Style: Foreign Stout
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Opaque black, low brown head. Good aromas of coffee, brown sugar, and solid roasted malt. Initially sweet palate, burnt sugar, dark malt, slightly bitter finish. I didn’t find the licorice elements that some of the others did. Overall very enjoyable, and superior to their "regular" old stout.

Bottle from my sis in Melbourne. Nice black pour with very small brown head. Assertively sweet and roasty aroma. Nice sweet maly flavor with cofee and licorice and some raisins. Nice thick mouthfeel. I found this a very decent beer.

Bottled. Black opaque with small brown foamy head. Strong aroma of licorace, roast and alcohol. Smooth roasted, toffeeish and licoracy flavour with burnt wood in aftertaste. Nice!

(Bottled@Oliver Twist, Stockholm) Very dark brown color with a small, beige head. Very roasty and licoricey, slightly alcoholic aroma. Burned-malty, slightly sweet flavor with licorice hints. Medium to full-bodied, milky and smooth-carbonated palate. A very smooth, full and enjoyable stout.

Dark brown, almost black with a rich brown foam. Full aroma of roasted coffeebeans, black chocolate and almond. Soft and full flavour of blck chocolate, coffee, toffee and anise. Creamy full mouthfeel. Long roasted aftertaste.

Intriguing aged stout. Judging by the comments here, the carbonation varies considerably because this sample was disconcertingly fizzy for a stout. It poured thin-looking and excessively bubbly, but settled into something dark, still and much more typical of the style. The pillowy 1.5cm tan head quickly receded but left some lace. However, the aroma compensates. It’s rich and raisiny, with licorice notes, dry coffee powder and dark rum-like alcohol. Aroma suggests it’s at the drier end of the scale. At room temperature, the mouthfeel is initially full and creamy, with some carbonated zing at the back of the throat and a slow burn down in the stomach. However, this is way too fizzy in the mouth for the style. Dark malts dominate the flavour profile, with the anticipated stout characteristics of bitter chocolate, espresso, dried fruit and ashes. The finish is as dry as a billabong in drought and pleasingly bitter. Will have to re-sample to see if the carbonation issue was a one-off. (375ml bottle, Randwick Cellars, best after 12/8/04)

Really liked this one. Pours out a still black color with a diminishing brown head. Smells a bit chocolatey/coffee-like. Flavor is similar with hints of dark fruit, chocolate, coffee and roasty bitterness. Full-bodied and smooth mouthfeel with low carbonation.

Black currant, coffee, plum. Fruity aroma. Black color, brown head, good lace. Light sweet, coffee, light roasted, bitter. Thinner than expected but overall very good.