Coopers Dark Ale

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 6

Bottle into glass, Coopers Alehouse, Syd Airport. Faint hop nose. Murky brown beer with film of suds. Medium body, flat mouthfeel. Surprisingly bitter for a Brown Ale. It’s alright, bit boring.

Aroma: 3 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Poured out of 12.7 oz bottle murky brown with tan head and lacing. The aroma seems a tad off since I can smell some metal coming from a beer bottled in glass and served in glass. There were also light aromatic notes of roasted to burnt malts. The flavor comes across as coffee, black patent malts and chocolate. The body seems somewhat watery.

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

A little light and prickly, even for a brown. The chocolate and roasty aroma and flavor are pleasant enough, but there's little depth to them. I nuch prefer their stout.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

This brew poured a dark brown with golden higlights and a medium white foamy head. Aroma is malt and sweet. The mouth feel is medium. The flavor is sweet nutty malts with very sparse hop bitterness. It finished crisp and the aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

This is an "OK" brew. Dark colored. Aroma is a little strong but its not bad at all. Taste isn't very strong but a little watered down with a hint of caramel or coffee. Metallic taste is a little potent in this one but wasn't as bad as some others I have had before. All and all a average to below average brew.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Like most Australian brews, this brown ale from "down under" has a very 'watered-down' mouthfeel in my opinion. It pours very dark and cloudy and with very little head, which should be expected considering the flat taste and low carbonation. A sweet, fruity taste can be detected - probably from prunes or some other dark fruit.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

its poured creamy milky like. very little head. light/med body. the color is nice, its like a dark brown with floaters in it, lol. it looks like wheat or yeast. maybe its just unfillered. still a great beer full of flavor and texture, again a little milk coffee like.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

One thing I don't like about Coopers is the massive sediment that is in ever one of its brews they make, that being said, you must pour carefully. The aroma is sweet and malty and of faint chocolate with maybe some light profiles of coffee and creaminess. The appearance is a nice, dark burgundy when held to the light with a respectable head on top that maintains nice retention and is a light-tan in color and carbonated. The mouthfeel is light-bodied with much less balance or complexity than I predicted with a palate that is wet-like and not too terribly bad. The flavor is of light roasted coffee and chocolate with some overtones of some burnt malts with an aftertaste that is thin and a bit watery with a finish that is creamy, smooth, and chocolatey. Overall, this brew lacks complexity that a dark ale needs and to say the list there is almost no flavor profile in my opinion but at least it is a beer that is easily consumed and maybe they were shooting for a brown ale that was easily pounded in the Australian Outback during the Winter months in the Southern Hemisphere but if that was the case why not just brew a dark (dunkel) lager, decent dark mild I guess; anyway, next beer PLEASE! Geez...

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 8

Dense foamy head, not much bubble activity. Sinks leaving a dense ring near the rim. Some tiny suspended particles, but not cloudy per se. Copper. Notes of subtle roasted malt, Aussie hops, touch of honey. I taste some smoke, before & after, maybe some honeycomb, but not sweet. A nice lingering aftertaste of the dark malt. Finishes quite dry, not heavy at all. I'd drink this for morning tea (if I was allowed to).

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 4

Dark brown, dissapearing bubbly foam. Weak aroma of roasted nalt and chocolate. Thin flavour of toasted bread, dark malt and chocolate. Thin, almost watery aftertaste.