Coopers Regency Draught

Formerly brewed at Coopers Brewery
Style: Pale Lager
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

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

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This has been retired for a while, but in updating my label collection since my latest trip to Oz I found my notes on this one from 2 years ago. My notes say: "WTF? why would Coopers bother? stinky and overprocessed." In the face of the other fine ales they make, it’s no wonder this one didn’t last.

Draught@National festival Of Beers, Brisbane, 03’. Not very good at all. Wheres the flavour? Watery, soft, and a little bit fizzy, not much going on.

Bottled as Regency Draught. Straight, simple pale lager that doesn’t offend too much, nor does it inspire. Easily better than Carlton Draught, but that’s saying pretty little.

UPDATED: JUL 14, 2005 Bottled (labelled Regency Draught). Pale golden, small head. A light flavoured beer with a light-medium body and a hint of bread and crystal malt. A fair amount of grassy hops make for some late bitternss. Easy drinking beer with no flaws.

Rebranded as Coopers Regency Draught. Poured a hazy gold with a quick-diminishing 1cm head. Un-Cooperslike aroma. The skunkiest beer they’ve produced to date - well done, lads. Faint hints of the house fruitiness but this bottle has a peculiar musty vegetal odour that doesn’t appeal. Plenty of sweet malt upfront on the tongue with a decent shot of Pride of Ringwood bitterness. Tastes better than it smells. Especially if you enjoy a bowl of cornflakes. It’s not unspeakably bad but it’s a mystery why they bother with this sort of stuff.

Amber with small but persistent head. Stale hoppy aroma and an almost immediate, long-lasting bitterness. However the actual taste is not very pleasant.

Lovely big white head which gradually gavfe way to thick lacing. Clear golden and flat body. Wet musty aroma. Heavily sweet flavour in that corn syrup homebrew kind of way. Nothing else woth noting.

Golden colouring with decent sized cloudy off-white head. Stale bitter aroma. Watery dry body, with a harsh bitter finish and aftertaste.

Very thick moussy, meringue head which seems to good to be true (ie. artificial). Slightly yeasty aroma but otherwise not much to report. Quite sugar-sweet with some caramel and a kind of sherbet character. Blah.

Something Coopers should leave well alone, but having said that, it is way better than the other local West End and better than VB. Sweet and a funny taste to begin with with a bit of bitterness and odd taste after. OK. Cheers all