Coopers Vintage Ale

Brewed by Coopers Brewery
Style: English Strong Ale
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

This was an utter disappointment. Brownish amber and slightly murky, it had a smallish off-white head soon thinning to aring and wispy top. The smell is fruit, mainly old apples, stewed prunes, bread crust, leaves. The taste was worse, old, leaves, old apples, sharp, rough alcoholic quality, and overall very flat in character. It seemed "old" in a bad way.

Botella. Vintage 2006. Hazy copper brown colour. Aroma of toasty caramel and malt with dark fruits. Nice mouthfeel. the flavour has a good sweet maltiness with caramel, dark fruits, some toffee and some alcohol. Tasty brew indeed.

2008 vintage: the second Coopers beer for me, I have had the brown ale a while back, but this time I am going for the gonzo Cooper. This vintage ale has a dark reddish orange hazy look, it is on the border to becoming opaque as it blocks a majority of the light, fine effers from the bottle conditioning, aromas are malty and contain highlites of candied dried fruits like some apricots, plums, raisins and cherries, some hops intrude when you shake things up, mostly yeast esters and it is nicely complex, the palate is very creamy and tingly and the finish is long and the very end, there is a tinge of bittering right that gives it a dry tart cherry vanilla chapstick kind of finish. It is unique and I like it.

Bottle (2006). Very cloudy amber with non-existent head. Malt aroma with tinges of vanilla, fruit and alcohol. Smooth on the palate, taste of fruit and vanilla with a very dry, hoppy finish. Looked like shit, tasted superb.

07 Bottle: Murky amber , fast fading beige head. Salty, sweet carmel malt nose, lightly fruity. Sweet malt profile,fruity overtones, light alcohol heat. Not bad , but seems to lack carbonation

At the GBBF 2008. Copper coloured beer. The aroma and flavour are very malty, alcoholic and oaky.

12.7 oz bottle from GM liquors; Says best after 07 06 07 Nose is caramel, vanilla, and sweetness; cloudy copper with a medium beige head; flavor has light hop bitterness, toffee, and a little fruity tone; finishes with light bitterness and a little alcohol warmth! A lighter version of some of the newer American Strong Ales!

(2007 Bottling) Pours hazy orangish copper with a thick off white head. Aroma is very strong caramel, some nutty and lighter fruity plum and apple tones. Flavour is sweet toffee and molasses, woody, vanilla. Some light fruit and alc. in the finish. Subtle bitterness at the end.