Coopers Brewery
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Coopers Brewery is an Australian company, privately owned by the Cooper family. The brewery was established by Thomas Cooper in 1862 at Leabrook in Adelaide, South Australia, and in 2001 moved to Regency Park. Coopers is known to make a variety of high quality beers, most famous of which is it's Sparkling Ale. It is also well established as a producer of home brew supplies.
Cooper's beers are widely available on tap in South Australia, and in some bars in the rest of Australia as specialty beers. It is widely available bottled around Australia and occasionally at specialist importers in other countries. Whilst Lion Nathan runs a brewery in South Australia selling beers under the "West End" and "Southwark" brands, Coopers is the only South Australian beer sold outside the state.
Their bottled beers are characterised by their secondary fermentation technique - some yeast remains in the bottle after bottling - thus the bottled beer contains some sediment. There are two schools of thought with regards to the sediment - some drinkers like to mix the sediment throughout the beer by tipping or rolling the beer before drinking, while others prefer to pour the beer into a glass leaving (most) of the sediment at the base of the bottle.
Products
The beers it produces are:
- Coopers Sparkling Ale: an English style golden ale. It has a distinctive clody appearance due to the sediment being left in the bottle. The Sparkling Ale has a slightly different flavour and higher alcoholic content than the Pale Ale.
- Coopers Pale Ale: a pale ale.
- Coopers Best Extra Stout: a stout.
- Coopers Dark Ale
- Coopers Mild Ale
- Coopers Heritage
- Thomas Cooper's Finest Export
- Coopers Regency Draught
- Coopers Regency Light
- Coopers Extra Strong Vintage Ale
- Coopers Special Old Stout
- Coopers DB
- Birell
The company also produces a range of malt extracts and concentrate for home brewers.
External links
- Coopers Brewery Website (http://www.coopers.com.au/)