Last month you may have seen on my Instagram
feed that Pete from Cedric and Ada a fellow
with slightly more Australian style knife
channel, sent me two things, first a Cold
Steel Spartan Knife- which is 100% American
thats why it’s made in Taiwan. And second
a beer is known in Australian as Coopers Brewing
Original Pale Ale, which weighs in at 4.5%
imperial pounds of alcohol by volume if my
math is correct. Wait 4.5? Well that’s no
fun, how am I going to fling out the spartan
and fight that skunk that walks around my
backyard some nights. Guess I could chase
the Cooper’s with some of that Tanquery
sitting in the cabinet above the fridge. Like
my grandpa used to say Tanqueray’s my Skunk
Fighting liquor.
So this beer comes in a 750ml bomber, probably
other sizes too, Bomber being a term despite
having drank from them for years, I had never
heard until recently. I always said 22 ounce
bottle because it rolled off the tongue nicely.
Cooper’s, which is also available in America
is a bottle conditioned cloudy pale ale with
sediment floating around the bottom. In America
we refer to sediment as dirt. So lets pour
it as we read the manufacturers notes. Or,
hey beer tell me about yourself in three glowing
paragraphs or less, depending on how many
of yourselves you drank. Sorry… it reads
Our 'Pale' is naturally conditioned in the
bottle or keg or the toilet of a county jail.
This traditional Coopers brewing method produces
the trademark sediment that gives our ales
a distinctive, fine cloudy appearance. Yeah
that’s right we trademarked sediment. Get
ready for the lawsuits bitches. This beer
is a deep golden colour with a u, and pours
with a generous level of foam. To unlock its
full flavour potential, make sure to roll
before pouring. And if you don’t know what
rolling is, you don’t know beer dumbass.
No additives. No preservatives. Except for
the alcohol. You guys can see right?
The smell. Sweet and mellow. We have some
honey up in there, some light malts, and a
little bit of fruit. What kind of fruit, is
honey suckle a fruit. Uh, no? Let’s try
some apricot jam… I don’t want to give
the impression these are bold, but chilled
out and pleasant.
The taste. The taste where do I begin. Lightly
carbonated with a kinda bitter hop start that
finishes into a mild sourness. Not sour as
in a sour style ale, but that sour funk you
get in some Trappist ales. You get some fruit
rinds like tangerine? It’s been a while
since I had tangerines, but I think that’s
halfway accurate. It reminds me a little of
the Orval Trappist I reviewed a while back.
Looking at the reviews on beer advocate I
see watery, grassy, cola flavored. I have
no clue what the hell they’re talking about.
Also this is not what we refer to as a Pale
Ale in America. A pale ale here is just a
coded way for them to sell you an IPA. Hey
look its a whole other beer! Don’t get me
wrong I like that, but just call it what it
is, a fuck you amount of hops. All in all
I like it- not what I expected, but the sort
of flavor, with a u I prefer out of a bottle
conditioned beer. So thanks to Cedric for
sending me this bottle, if you’re not familiar
with him- he’s a very recent photo of the
guy. Like, subscribe to me, and if you’re
not subscribed to Cedric you can go to hell.
Thanks for watching!
