Coopers Sparkling Ale (Coopers Sparkling Ale)

Member Name: RocketFuel

Product:	Coopers Sparkling Ale
Date:	04/06/09 (54 review reads)
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Advantages: Strong yet refreshing and easy to drink

Disadvantages: None

I first drank some Coopers Pale Ale which became a favourite of mine and decided to try other offerings from the Coopers brewery.

Coopers Sparkling Ale is a lovely beer. I poured my first bottle into a glass to accompany my Vindaloo curry and it went very well with the spicyness of the food.
There is actually a live yeast sediment in the bottom of the bottle which you can mix into the beer before pouring if you like. But that's personal taste. I personally do like to mix it in. This beer is bottle conditioned, meaning that the brewery add extra sugar and yeast at bottling to carbonate the beer. This makes the beer much nicer than if it were to be force carbonated as per most commercial breweries. You can actually use this yeast sediment to make homebrew beer with, as I do.

The beer has a very complex flavour and quite a creamy mouthfeel. It is very refreshing for a strong beer and doesn't seem nearly as strong as it really is. It's actually 5.8%.
There is a sweet, maltyness to the taste with enough hops to balance it out. The colour is a hazy-dark-golden-orange. The aroma is quite yeasty, malty. There is a lovely fuity aroma that is also present in the Coopers Pale Ale. It must come from the yeast esters as my homebrew has some of the same smells.

The head is reasonably thick and frothy and seemed to stay a while in my glass.
Highly recommended beer !!!

Summary: NIce beer if you like a bit of flavour