Coopers Special Old Stout

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

Absolute black with a thick brown head. Similar to the Best Extra (of course), with roasted almonds, licorice and burnt toast, but also a sweet toffee. A good balance in the flavour, with the burnt bitterness complemented with some rounded sweetness. Perfect level of carbonation, leading off a well rounded palate. Best after 27/09/03, this bottle has shown it handles ageing well. Very good brew. Re-rate: As both an Australian and a fan of Foreign Stouts I’m probably a bit biased, but I think this is one hell of a beer. Having it with my scraped together home-made pizza I get an amazing hazelnut flavour. With a great aroma and ’drink me’ flavour, this would have to be my desert island 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!

strong coffe aroma, hint of tropical fruits, black in colour. dry finish well balanced bitter taste.

Better than I thought it would be and I was expecting it to be excellent. Lovely coffee and chocolate flavors, just all ’round beautiful.

I believed everyone when they said the best extra stout was better, but after finally trying this I reckon this is much cooler. Heaps more weird flavours have developed in the six months on da shelf like liquorice allsorts and some raisins. I know you can all just leave your best extra in the garage for a few months, but why wait? Pop off to your local now I reckonz. Its true that its thinner, but at least its 6.8% -- best extra is at a measly 6.3% these dayz...

This beer is great with that little bit extra age. Creamy palate with bitter roasted coffee and chocolate flavours. Put it in the cellar for another 12 months.

Special? You bet your balls it is! Thick, malty, strong and delicious. Drink enough of these and you'll be stout. Spanner.

Bottled. Oooooh yeah - big flavours: licorice, some kind of smoked/burnt wood, coffee, chocolate. A tad oily and very syrupy. Thick and dark, definitely benefits a lot from the aging.