Coopers Regency Light

Formerly brewed at Coopers Brewery
Style: Low Alcohol
Regency Park, South Australia, Australia

Serve in English pint, Shaker

Amber gold, thin head, no real aroma, thin thin thin palate. Just another light beer.

Bottled, labelled Regency Light. Golden colour, near no head. Light boided and lightly bready with some grassy hops. It’s somewhat thin with a hint of metal, thankfully interrupted by a light spicy bitterness.

This is now sold under the brand name "Regency Light" with the same abv. Poured a cloudy gold colour with a fast-diminishing 0.5cm head but plenty of visible carbonation. The distinctive house yeast aroma is present but subdued. Pineapple notes, a dab of butter and a hint of hop make it smell a lot more inviting than most lights. But tastewise it’s a crashing disappointment. Dominant flavour is wet cardboardy malt and... er, that’s about it, but for a bit of bitterness in the finish. It’s as thin and unsatisfying as any other light beer. For an extra 0.6% abv, you can drink the Mild, which at least has some genuine Coopers character. This smells better than the average light but that’s about it.

Dull looking pale golden body with short lasting head. Aroma of hops. Taste is there if you look for it, bland and flat malt taste. Coopers make a couple good beers but it seems that they make a couple of shockers as well. I was forced to give this a couple extra points only cos I have given worse beers a better rating.

Amber colour with a lightly hoppy aroma. However it is almost completely devoid of taste. There is only the merest hint of vinigar in the aftertaste. Another waste of time.

Golden Colouring with a large off-white head. Woody, wetwood type of aroma. Bland and watery with tinny, septic, malty flavour.

Bottled, in sunny Sydney. Pale golden beer with not to much fizz. Light hoppy aroma. Smooth pale malt flavour with only a slight bitterness to it. Best light beer on tour so far. Was actually named Regency Light, but as there are already two Coopers light ales at 2.9% on the site I thought this to be the closest match.

It is sometimes neccessary to have a new light. I once had this old dependable one for about six years. I would walk into my room, approach the desk and flick the switch. Taaa Daaa, it would come on immediately. I liked the light, actually ya gotta love the light. There are so many references to it, see the light, come into the light, let there be light, strike a light, he ain't heavy, he's my brother (ergo, he is light), hey buddy can you spare a light? I just wish the brewer had hidden this light under a bushel, coz he could have put more of it into the beer to give it some body. A beer you can't get off on, or alight.