 Lunkie (1006), Glen Iris, Australia
Jan 4, 2008 Spic hop malt aroma. Cloudy pale yellow colour with good head and lacing. Sweet malt hop flavour with floral undertones. Fizzy palate.
Stew41 (883), Caulfield, Australia
Aug 18, 2007 Looks quite good for a beer from this producer; glowing orange with lemon coloured edges and a nice thin creamy head. I think it does have a Coopers-esque nose; sweet citrus and faint estery notes. Palate is ok, more citrus fruity notes (albeit mild) but the sweet syrupy adjunction, corn syrup flavours do detract. Fizz at a good level. Easily the best LN beer I’ve had in recent timees.
GreyShadow (15), Australia
Dec 10, 2006 From a 330ml bottle. I have to agree with the other posters. Reading the label, it says balanced flavour and aroma.. I’d agree there. If you call bland balanced.Something I expect at the work Christmas party to keep people somewhat happy.
Dredd (364), Ormond, Australia
Aug 3, 2006 Hmmm, don’t quite know what to make of this. Slight citrus on the nose and some slight skunkiness. There are some apple and pear flavours with light malts that finishes well with some pleasent light bitterness. It is quite an innoffensive quaffer and a lot less work to down than a vic or for that matter a coopers if you were on a night out with the lads.
I don’t see this as a rip off of Coopers at all except that the naming of it as Pale Ale, so what? When I bought it, I didn’t know if it would be IPA, American Pale ale, or old fashioned aussie pale ale and coopers didn’t come in to play at all.
On Merit, I’d consider buying more at a bar, but would not be the first choice to buy at home.
Now that the tasting bit is out of the way, what do I really think? It is a bit like Hahn is being used to push the James squire Boutiqueness to the masses. There are plenty of people that will drink hahn, but not JS etc. I don’t think this is aimed at the Coopers drinkers at all since they are all too loyal for something like this, but at the same time,
winkle (441), Brisbane, Australia
Jul 27, 2006 Updated: Aug 3, 2006Bottled: as everyone points out its a attempt at cashing in on the popularity of the Coopers Pale Ale. Naturally, instead of being bold, thet’ve opted for bland. Bland light citrus aroma, bland body, bland half-assed faint malt flavour, bland finish and bland packaging. A very boring beer in total, but at least it wasn’t skunked I suppose.
Re-rate I guess I was a bit harsh since there is an appreciatible citrus flavour in the body. It is also an easy drinker which is the plan I think. Still pretty bland
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