Coopers Dry Beer

Brewed by Coopers Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

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Slight sweetness at the start, with a dry, sort-of-hoppy finish, very light, but manages to have a bit of flavour. Quite clean in taste as the description says.

Clear filtered orange gold, with lots of bubbles flying to the top of the glass propping a rather lacklustre head. Aroma is all malt, although I somehow got some sweet berry fruits on tasting. The flavour is rather neutral, probably as intended, making it an easy quaffer but uninteresting. Average palate, with not a lot to argue with the mouth as it hasn’t got much of a body. As far as pale lagers go it’s in with the mix, but that’s nothing to be proud of.

UPDATED: JUL 14, 2005 Bottled. Pale golden. no head. Ricey sake aroma. Dry with loads of adjuncty rice flavour and some bread. Light bodied, but not thin. Low bitterness. Save for the bready malt flavour there is not much reason to chose this over, say, VB.

Never had a diet beer before. Light sweet aroma of malt that almost seems to be missing something. Pours light golden, not much head to speak of. Has the wierd sodary body I get with all of these less well known Coopers beer. Watery, and easy. A bit more interesting than their draught, and maybe a bit better for ya, but nothing special.

Wow, no head. Highly effervescent. Hint of flat cardboardy malt. Quite a strong honey in the intial flavour. Boring palate with some carbonic acid finish. meh.

Toasty with some other aroma I can’t quite describe, maybe raw green beans. There’s actually a bit of malt in there but there’s quite a significant astringency in the finish. I was never going to love this beer but it ain’t terrible.

I think a reference to clean often means that the beer is going to lack flavour. The fact that yeast is repitched means that it is going to do a bit of a vacuum job on residual sugars and other factors that give a beer its enjoyable mouthfeel. Also the fact that the beer comes in at 4.5% AFTER longer fermentation means that the wort must have been pretty weak in the first place. It is strange how DB always seems like diet beer, or diabetic or dribble. Suppose they have to brew something for the Dopey Bastards, Dumb Broads or Dumbo Blimps of the world.