Coopers Dark Ale

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

Serve in Dimpled mug

Dark brown with a beige head. Wonderful fruit aroma. Unripe plums, kiwi perhaps? After that initial promise it’s all downhill: fizzy, watery, metallic. Slight dryness.

Very thin head, very simple. Has the appearance, aroma, and taste more like a root beer than a beer. Beer-wise, it tastes and smells like a very, very watered-down Newcastle. I drank it in the suggested "nippy weather," but it wasn’t especially satisfying.

Bottle. Dark brown beer with a light aroma and a watery dry flavour. Overall an average watery and malty beer.

Dark brown, with lots of floaties. Beige foamy head. Weird aroma - I’m gonna say RC Cola, maybe? Cola is in the flavor, too - Cola and coffee. Kinda like one of those Coca-Cola Blak drinks, but less nasty. Anyway, odd but surprisingly tasty.

Bottle. Very dark brown with a beige head. Aromas are sweet earthy coffee with chocolate and some sulphur. Flavours are sweet cola with hints of lemon. Light roast character and not especially malty.

Pours walnut brown w/ shallow spritzy froth. Aroma is faint w/ sharp cocoa. Medium nectar w/ ample residual effers. Flavors of crisp malt w/ a faint roast of tart oak, coffee bean, and leather. Finish has a big bittering.

Dark malty, roasted aroma. Hazy, brown coloured with a thin, off-white head. Taste is sweet, weak and carbonated. Some roasted malt. Watery body, slightly dry. Not really good.

12-oz. Pours dark brown with absolutely no head, which is startling given that it’s at room temperature. Nearly an opaque beer. Plummy aromas, mixed with some scorched cherries. No visible carb, but there’s some fizz in the light body. Some char, some tobacco smoke, but both are very subdued. Somewhat assertive--for a brown. Not much happening here.