Coopers Dark Ale

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

Serve in Dimpled mug

Brown, with particles. No head. Dark malty aroma. Thin body. Earthy malts. Hints of coffee and caramel. Easy to drink initially but gets bad as you go on.

Bottled. Dark amber. Small, off-white head. Light chocolate-aroma. Pretty thin with only notes of cocoa.

Bottle. Metallic roasted malt aroma. Dark brown with small head. Initially watery start but finishes with a slightly smokey chocolate malt flavor - pretty bland.

Bottled(375ml). -Brown cola coloured, creamy brown head. Weak roasted malt and coffee taste with notes of burnt sugar, nuts and hint of chocolate in the finish. Quite weak but not watery.

I thought the bottle and label looked neat and thought this might be a decent import. I was horribly wrong. It had a peanut, yet tinny, aroma that was nearly nonexistent. Brown color, floating sediments, thin tan head. Weak charcoal taste. Finish is generically bitter, like some sort of resin. Not gross, but uninspired and poorly made/kept.

Amber color, offwhite head. Roasted malt aroma. Malty flavor, a bit thin, some chocolate and cocoa, a bit roasted.

Bottle from Aussie pal. Pours a hazy brown colour with no real head, just a thin tan film. Honestly, no real aroma and the flavour was watery malt. Average at best.

Pours a cloudy and hazed brown with a head that doesn’t stick around at all. Nose is malty and caramel sweet. Flavor is a fair bit of coffee, but a lot of bitter on there too which I think detracts. As you go on the bitter leaves and the smoother coffee tones dominate more so. As time goes on, even those tones get washed out by a watery flavor profile. Potential, but doesn’t come through when it needs to. Feel is a bit lower on carbonation. On the liquid level it is fairly average. Overall a fairly low performance on this one. I can’t say this is really worth cracking open.