Coopers Dark Ale

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

Serve in Dimpled mug

Appearance: Pours a clear, deep, dark brown body with a very wispy, white head. Smell: Humble aroma of dark fruits and slightly caramel-scented and bready malt notes. Taste: Toasted bready malts and dark caramel, though with only a mild sweetness. Touch of dark fruitiness, mainly plums. Mild hop character and bitterness. Drying finish with one last hint of fruit. Grows increasingly watery in the latter half, it’s good that it finishes when it does. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: Most of the Coopers have been poopers, but this Dark Ale, well, it’s downright acceptable.

...bottle. Smooth, dark ale with a nice malty flavor, and a good mouthfeel. The bottle conditioning always makes things better, good job Coopers.

Bottle at Coco’s Outback, Amsterdam. Brown body, tan head. Malty nose and taste. Quite carbonated. Metallic finish.

An interesting brown ale. Pours brown with a thin tan head. Aroma of roasted malt. Thin and too heavily carbonated. Metallic. I didn’t really enjoy it. Watery.

Draught. Caramal, roasted malt on the nose. Sweet malt, slightly metallic palate. A bit thin and carbonated.

UPDATED: DEC 14, 2008 A beer that improves the more you drink it. I was not in the least impressed by it on first drinking, however with later tastings it got better. Strong flavour, with good carbonation and a firm finish. Good beer for a reasonable price.

Bottle. This is a very refreshing and clean tasting for brown ale, however it seems to a bit thin and watery. It doesn’t have the same burnt taste that some have, and it blends a very mild sweetness with a nice flavour and slight bitterness.

This black ale poured with a decent tan head. There is a thin nutty chocolate malt flavor, very watery.