Coopers Best Extra Stout

Brewed by Coopers Brewery
Style: Foreign Stout
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Serve in Snifter, Tulip

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Bottle at a porter/stout blind tasting. Pours opaque with an ugly foam head. Iodine and delicate roast aroma. Nice bitter taste, a little alcoholic. Good carbonation, medium body, longish bitter finish.

Pours Inky with a big stable tan to coffee head. Aroma of coffee and licorice with a roasty background. Roasty burnt biting flavor with a medium mouth feel. Burnt bitter palate. If you like that kind of flavor, this is definitely your beer, Personally I like my stouts smoother and less biting.

dark roasted malt color with smoked wood licorice aroma. Not a heavy coffee aroma or taste for a stout. Hint of chocolate on finish. Cateful on pouring as thos beer is a bottle fermenting beer

From notes. First reviewed 2/5/2009. Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a pint glass. Coopers Best Extra Stout pours a dark walnut color, nearly black. A nice, latte colored head forms during the pour, most of which gradually fades, leaving a little bit more than a collar around the glass. A surprisingly light scent; a very nuanced smokey malt and coffee flavor are the main components, along with a hint of sweet molasses. A nice, slightly burnt malt taste dominates from start to finish. Some chocolate and coffee flavors round out the flavor. I am left with a smokey, burnt aftertaste. The extra stout is not quite as advertised, and I actually feel that this has a very light feel. The feel is almost smooth, but a little bit of graininess is present. The lighter mouthfeel and subtle flavors would allow me to drink a few of these before I got tired of it. In general, though, I prefer a stronger taste in my stouts.

12.7 ounce bottle poured into a pint glass. Dark brown pour with a small tan head. This tastes like every foreign stout I’ve ever had. Sweet lactose creamy aroma with a decidedly roasty flavor profile, plenty of dark bread crusts, a whisper of fruitiness, and a dry finish. A perfectly adequate stout but not something I would care to have again, if only because of its genericness.

2012 - 02 - 13 375ml bottle. black colour. medium creme head. aroma of dark fruits, roasty. medium bitter taste.

Black thick body with beige creamy head. Aromas roast, grains, cacao raw beans. Palate thick oily and full bodied with dry end. Aftertaste dry and bitter very balanced and smooth.

Dark brown head. Dry stout aroma with all what you want in a Stout. Fine roasted blend of dark malts.

I feel like I have done this beer a disservice by drinking it after old viscosity.

12 oz bottle, nice easy to drink stout. Not one of the best, but very drinkable. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone