Coopers Mild Ale

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

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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UPDATED: JUL 31, 2007 It’s always good to re-rate - like revisiting the night you got drunk and ranted about the beer in the first place. Pours a muddy, turbid, pastelly wooded gold. Head was no more than a tightly clung ring of white on the meniscus. Aroma a dull, almost misplaced sniff-at-the-wrong-time-and-you-miss-it, bready yeast belch. Quite fizzy in the mouth, displaces much of the distant flavours, hides them you could say! Quite bready, a tinsy showing of cordial fruitiness, and again pasty like the last tasting. Very clean liquor-wise, crisp in the swallow, with a slight showing of drawn pale fruits, a little more yeast. Blandness is its biggest fault. Still not a Mild!!! (37,5cL bottle, best after 07/04/06, The Beer Store Morley)

Aaaahhh!!! Mild Ale, my favourite style of beer. It has gone from a high gravity young beer, to a lightly hopped, low gravity beer, in just over a hundred years. Corporate greed, indeed. This one is a bit of a shambles, a step backwards for Mild Ales, everywhere. Poured a pale gold, with a ’Houdini’ disappearing head. From the can (I hope it’s better bottled) it hailed no aroma bar a little bready yeast. Palate wise, it bared citric, orange and tangerine flavours, similar bready yeast to the aroma that came across as chalky and a short, slightly bitter swallow. Light bodied, and braindeadedly sessionable, but never a MILD ALE!!!!!! (37,5cL can, best after 07/01/05) 1,2,5,3,7

Not much of anything going on here. A quick whiff of malt in the aroma. Another one with poor head retention. Flavor is generally beer-like, but its such a mish-mosh of very delicate malt, hop and yeast derived flavors that the "triple hopping" is lost in the shuffle. Carbonation in Cooper’s seems somewhat inconsistent, must be a function of the bottle conditioning. Thin body.

Bottle: Poured cloudy bonze-amber with a small and very short head. Not much aroma or taste but what there was was exactly like Asprin with a hint of malt which I found somewhat bizarre. The carbonation was a low point - lots of very big bubbles that took away from what little flavour there was. Saying all that, it was still a reasonable beer, just boring as hell.

Rather a bland beer, soft base malts with a slight hint of lightly roasted malt, very little in the way of hop character. The Coopers yeast struggles to impart any of its typical traits to such a light beer.

Cloudy bronze with circulating yeast particles and a weak head. Slight yeast aroma. Even more slight bitter citric flavour. Very watery and thin. Well, they achieved the mildness. Especially if mild means lacking taste.

Very faintly hazy medium gold with a tiny very short last head and a few bubbles. Very faint cardboard, wheat beer like bready yeast and grainy malt aroma. Soft watery quite low carb almost flat body - strange because one can still see some carbonation in the glass. Taste is mild lemon like bitter and a hint of sweet corn malt. I’d much rather have a Rogers, Not for me I’m afraid.

On tap at the Lord Nelson. This has a look like the other members of the Ale family. There is a lack of that typical estery nose however and because it is a mid strength there is that thinness of mouthfeel and flavour. I expected a lot more from this simply because of its heritage.

Mid-strength from Coopers? May as well see what it’s all about. Aroma of yeast and light hints of hops. Pours a slightly hazy gold with chunks and a fluffy head atop. The body is watery and the flavour is nothing itself isn’t anything to write home about. Light citrusy hops, bit of light malt, and a touch of bitterness to finish. I guess it beats a light beer.

Cloudy with a small ish head, no lacing. Yeasty aroma as normal with coopers. Palate very light but not too bad. Flavour kind of subdued with sweetness and a touch of sour and dominated by the carbonation.

Slightly cloudy, straw coloured body with a pillowy white head that lasted fairly well. On the nose I get some yeast, grains and hints of wheat. Taste is a little lemony, vanilla, a touch of bitterness and a little watery. Overall not bad for a mid-strength that would make it a toss-up against the Rogers if you were told you could only have mid-strengths. Almost a watered down Pale Ale.