Beer Radar for TWTW May 2012
By John Krüger
A celebration tale
Coopers has just released a new ale. This happens less often than the Wiggles change members, so it’s a big deal. Coopers are celebrating brewing beers for 150 years so they’ve introduced a tasty new beer for our pleasure. It’s actually not the easiest beer to describe. It’s a reddish brown ale with a bit more of a nudge with hops than you’d usually be used to in a Coopers. It’s still very Coopers, obviously. They’re not celebrating hops, they’re celebrating 150 years of brewing. It’s only coming out in 355ml stubbies but you can’t miss the flashy packaging. I’d like to try more to be honest. I drank three stubbies in different parts of the house and am still wondering if I like it or love it. This project needs more research.
Update:
I mentioned Cascade First Harvest in TWTW a while back and promised to update. It’s brewed and in the bottle shops. New head brewer Mike Unsworth has taken over from Max Burslem after Max had been brewing Cascade beers for 40 years. Now there’s a bloke who deserves medal. Mike’s 2012 First Harvest is pretty spicy and green. Quite resiny but not with the usual musk and Juicyfruit that American hoppy beers have. Well worth a go.
