Coopers Dark Ale
The flavour lies somewhere between our Sparkling Ale and Stout but the texture and appearance is less syrupy and cleaner. Coopers Dark Ale is top fermented in the traditional manner. A combination of dark and medium-roasted malt produces this rich, flavoursome brew that's especially satisfying in nippy weather.
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Regency Park, Australia
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Coopers Dark Ale 4.5%
A cola brown with a fizzy tan head that vanished fast. The aroma is malty caramel but also sweet corn syrup cola like. The taste is better with toasty molasses notes and a strange floral thing in the finish (hops).
It tastes better than it smells but this is a bargain basement beer...
330ml bottle from Jason's Food Hall, Kuala Lumpur. Poured a clear medium brown colour with a fizzy, mostly lasting light tan head. The aroma is caramel malt, nutty, light woody hop. The flavour is light sweet, with a light, watery, mineral, earthy, woody hop bitter palate and a lingering bitter finish. Medium to light bodied with average to lively carbonation. Way too light and watery for the style and too much carbonation too.
Pour from bottle, very little head, liquid rather lively. Smell coffee, the body is light, and taste a little bit bitter sweet.
On tap at Six Tanks Brew Co, Darwin. Pours dark brown w/light tan head and mild aroma of roast malt. Tasty malt profile-choc & a bit nutty-plus enough bitterness to balance most of the sweetness.
Appearance: murky brown. Medium tan head
Aroma: nutty, caramel
Palate: medium mouthfeel and carbonation
Taste: nutty, caramel. A little sweet. Good lingering aftertaste
Tap @ Burrawang Pub. Dark brown. Chocolate, caramel and hazelnuts. Decent body for a brown ale. Slight sweetness. Went well with a porky country terrine and the Sunday roast pork.
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375ml bottle from Tasty Life, Xiamen. Pours dark brown with an off white head. Aroma of malt and toffee with hazelnuts. Sweetish taste, a hint of chocolate. Bitter finish. Better than I thought it was going to be.
Dark brown, murky pour with very little beige head. Roasted malt, nutty, chocolate aroma. Taste is chocolate, nuts, dried fruit - a bit thin. Ok but nothing exciting
Bottle. Dark Brown in colour. Malty; roast (slightly burnt) malts, caramel, some chocolate. Fruity; some fruit notes. Mildly sour roasty and fruity throughout. Drinkable. OK but bland. (2009-07)
clear black with moderate brown head. Some malt and chocolate in aroma. Chocolate much more pronounced in taste. Hint of copper at the end that lets you know it’s a Coopers. Very smooth. Thinner than it looks, but that’s okay, just makes it very sessionable. Like a little mini extra stout.
Nice and simple, easy to drink dark ale. Aroma of roasted malt and caramel. Taste is sweet with mild notes of coffee and something toffee-like.
My favorite Cooper’s offering and one of the better beers from the really big breweries in Australia (although maybe not if you consider Little Creatures and the ilk that have been bought out)...
Poured from a stubby. Dark brown with a thin head that dissipates quickly. Aroma is dark roast coffee and malt. Palate is thin and carbonated, better after its gone a little flat. Flavour is coffee, malt, sweet and biscuit.
It’s certainly not the best brown in town, but at $16 a sixer, it’s drinkable and value for money.
I know it is a little low in alcohol at on 4.5 %,but the flavours,taste and aroma are all there to be enjoys.
Cooper’s always deliver a good beer and this one along with the extra stout are brilliant.
Cooper’s dark is delicious with anything off the grill!
Found tasting notes from my 2009 trip to Australia. Bottle to glass from Brick, Melbourne. Caramel, medium malt. Thin, but smooth texture. One of my favorites down under.
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On holiday dark brown colored body with an off white head and a hop chocolate malt aroma a malt hop sweet taste with a little bitter finish
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.
From a bottle. Super smooth with balanced flavours, mild roasted bitterness, thin bodied. Nice stuff
Hazy brown color beer with a light brown frothy head that goes away very quickly. Aroma is roasted with caramel and toffee notes. Flavor is sweet with almost no bitterness; fruit hints. Body is thin and carbonation is high. The end is dry with a medium duration.
The aroma is that smell you get from a sticky bar with too much shithouse beer poured on it, pours really fizzy with no head, carbonation almost instantly goes though. It tastes like an old shoe, disappointed there’s a kangaroo on the label, this doesn’t represent Australian beer.
A weak brown ale. Mild and watery finish. Light toast, some sweet breadiness and then nothing.
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."
Bottle. Wasn't super impressed with this, but warmed to it as it warmed. Pitch black with rather insipid head. Notes of dark chocolate, prunes, and sourish malt. Fairly light and fizzy for an ale. Opened up a little. Malty cola aftertaste. Passable, but there are many more better dark ales than this.
Dark amber brown colour with a whitish head with an aroma that leans toward the typically fruity cogniscant of Cooper’s other products. The flavour has some dusty coffee and orange skinned apples and then along comes some twinges of hoppy bitterness. It dries out on the finish. Tasty enough.
A little bit light in the body. Rasins and malt but not much else. It’s pretty refreshing for a dark beer. Not a lot of hop action going on
375 nil bottle roasted malty aroma deep brown in colour malty taste and old favorate good stuff
Bottled 375 ml from Dan Murphy’s, Eltham (Melbourne), on July 30, 2013.
Clear dark brown color, small light brown head. Sweet, malty, toffee scent. Dry, malty taste. Dry, grainy, metallic aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, medium high dry grainy bitterness.
On tap. Pours a rich brown with an off white head. Toasty caramel and chocolate flavours with a nutty aftertaste. Light bodied with medium carbonation. A decent dark ale, yet nothing specctacular.
Toasted grain, dark caramel nose. Small beige head. Ruddy red hue. Plesant nuttiness, caramel, lightly burnt toast, thin bdy, kinda watery, lacking in any real flavor, shorth acidic coffee finish.