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Super Cooper
Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- From:
- Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Imperial IPA
- ABV:
- 11.6%
- Score:
- 88
- Avg:
- 3.93 | pDev: 5.09%
- Reviews:
- 7
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Mar 09, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 19, 2015
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
For us, the only thing more fun than a barrel of monkeys is a barrel of beer! For our 14th Anniversary we aged Super Cooper in freshly emptied bourbon barrels for a full year before dry-hopping, pairing soft malt sweetness and warm oak character with the bright kick of American hops. It's the first Anniversary Ale with an anniversary of its own!
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Ratings by LampertLand:
Reviewed by LampertLand from Canada (BC)
4/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4/5 rDev +1.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Phillips Brewing ' Super Cooper' @ 11.6% , served from a 650 ml bottle purchased for $7
A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear amber in the glass with a small off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-bourbon barrel aged & dry hopped , very pungent
T-big boozey anniversary ale , the dry hopping is an interesting touch
MF-ok carbonation , big full body , felling the ABV , dry finish
Ov-wow from Apocolyptic Donkey , to a Gigantic Mutant Panda with fricking laser-beams , now Donkey Kong , Barrels & Dry Hop-Heads
prost LampertLand
Sep 04, 2015A-pour is a light gold from the bottle to a clear amber in the glass with a small off-white head leaving a spotty lace along the pint
S-bourbon barrel aged & dry hopped , very pungent
T-big boozey anniversary ale , the dry hopping is an interesting touch
MF-ok carbonation , big full body , felling the ABV , dry finish
Ov-wow from Apocolyptic Donkey , to a Gigantic Mutant Panda with fricking laser-beams , now Donkey Kong , Barrels & Dry Hop-Heads
prost LampertLand
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Yardsale from Canada (SK)
3.77/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Orange-gold in color. Decently large, fine head with a big old pile of lacing that lasts.
Throwing off a lot of smell here. A little boozy, candied fruit and an almost cedar like quality. Then again my nose is improper and it could be caramel.
Taste is pretty all over, sort of sweet vanilla, with a little berry in there fading into some bitterness/marmalade. A woody/boozy tinge at the end. I can't get over the fact that almost tart berries exist in the aftertaste.
Feels big, that's for sure. Fine carb definitely helps it out here. It's pretty thick and kinda slick.
Weak review complete. I bought 3 on a recommendation. I ain't even mad. I want to see what it becomes in 6 months or so. Despite being confusing and weird, I like it.
Oct 09, 2015Throwing off a lot of smell here. A little boozy, candied fruit and an almost cedar like quality. Then again my nose is improper and it could be caramel.
Taste is pretty all over, sort of sweet vanilla, with a little berry in there fading into some bitterness/marmalade. A woody/boozy tinge at the end. I can't get over the fact that almost tart berries exist in the aftertaste.
Feels big, that's for sure. Fine carb definitely helps it out here. It's pretty thick and kinda slick.
Weak review complete. I bought 3 on a recommendation. I ain't even mad. I want to see what it becomes in 6 months or so. Despite being confusing and weird, I like it.
Reviewed by headlessparrot from Canada (ON)
3.65/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev -7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
My first thought here was: why the *hell* would you barrel age a double IPA. My second thought here was: well, cool bottle, at any rate.
Pours from the 650mL bottle into my snifter a hazy copper/brown colour, almost whiskey-ish, capped by three fingers of soapy foam that recedes to a finger but persists there and leaves a lot of lacing.
Smell is citrus, tropical fruit (pineapple, mango), buttery, bourbon, vanilla. Malty, caramel. Slight sourness, slight metallic twang. Taste is an interesting battle between the IPA elements here and the barrel elements: a lot of citrus, grapefruit, tropical fruits, but over a buttery, vanilla, bourbon-y base. Faint fruit, especially berries? Interesting dry-then-sweet-then-bitter delivery. Slightly metallic, slight alcoholic heat. Body is a bit heavy (unsurprising, given ABV), carbonation is moderate.
A good beer, but one that's not for me: just a bit too over-the-top, and a bit too all-over-the-place.
Sep 07, 2015Pours from the 650mL bottle into my snifter a hazy copper/brown colour, almost whiskey-ish, capped by three fingers of soapy foam that recedes to a finger but persists there and leaves a lot of lacing.
Smell is citrus, tropical fruit (pineapple, mango), buttery, bourbon, vanilla. Malty, caramel. Slight sourness, slight metallic twang. Taste is an interesting battle between the IPA elements here and the barrel elements: a lot of citrus, grapefruit, tropical fruits, but over a buttery, vanilla, bourbon-y base. Faint fruit, especially berries? Interesting dry-then-sweet-then-bitter delivery. Slightly metallic, slight alcoholic heat. Body is a bit heavy (unsurprising, given ABV), carbonation is moderate.
A good beer, but one that's not for me: just a bit too over-the-top, and a bit too all-over-the-place.
Reviewed by wordemupg from Canada (AB)
4.02/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.02/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
650ml bomber poured into tulip 6/9/15
A slight haze in a orange copper body, lots of tiny particles and a single stream of bubbles coming off the bottom, two fingers of foam has great retention slowly falling to a thin film leaving lots of random lace
S vanilla, caramel, and wet wood mash together with leafy, citrus, kinda interesting combo, lots of marmalade, some bread and herbal notes, a little sweet bourbon and booze
T some candied pineapple, a little musty, apple sauce, more sweet bourbon, faint spruce, not too far from the nose, lots going on here
M fairly thick soft from the bubbles, slick, some booze but fairly well concealed, fairly bitter, some wood and pine linger
O a big boozy brew with plenty going on, interesting mix with the dry hopping in a big ass barrel aged, a little rough around the edges at times but solid all around
I'm curious how this one will age, hops will drop off fast, 8$ a bomber I'll be buying a few more for sure
Sep 07, 2015A slight haze in a orange copper body, lots of tiny particles and a single stream of bubbles coming off the bottom, two fingers of foam has great retention slowly falling to a thin film leaving lots of random lace
S vanilla, caramel, and wet wood mash together with leafy, citrus, kinda interesting combo, lots of marmalade, some bread and herbal notes, a little sweet bourbon and booze
T some candied pineapple, a little musty, apple sauce, more sweet bourbon, faint spruce, not too far from the nose, lots going on here
M fairly thick soft from the bubbles, slick, some booze but fairly well concealed, fairly bitter, some wood and pine linger
O a big boozy brew with plenty going on, interesting mix with the dry hopping in a big ass barrel aged, a little rough around the edges at times but solid all around
I'm curious how this one will age, hops will drop off fast, 8$ a bomber I'll be buying a few more for sure
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.77/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.77/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
650ml bottle, the brewery's Fourteenth Anniversary Ale, which was barrel-aged for 1 year, and subsequently dry-hopped. There, now that I've finished transcribing the front label, to the suds!
This beer pours a mostly clear, medium tarnished golden yellow colour, with four chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and fairly slick ecru head, which leaves some decent splattered sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of pungent barrel notes - vanilla, caramel, grainy wood, and a spicy booziness - a further pale and toffee-like malt sweetness, mixed dark orchard fruit, a bit of peppy orange and white grapefruit rind bitterness, middling earthy yeast, and a so far benign metallic alcohol measure. The taste is bready, doughy caramel malt, those scotch candy thingies, a still heady Bourbon barrel astringency - saucy vanilla and besotted wood staves - muddled citrus and pine esters, fading gritty yeast, and more floral, leafy, and well-perfumed hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its meekly challenging frothiness, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and generally smooth, the hops thoroughly flattened by the barrel notes, so no potential problem here. It finishes still pretty sweet, the Bourbon, fruit, and toffee pudding trifecta tempered only by the threat of Big Booze, really.
As usual, I'll start with the caveat that I find the idea of barrel-aged IPAs to be abhorrent, an act against beer nature, if you will - why destroy what makes an IPA or DIPA so good in the first place? Anyways, this tastes more like a lighter-bodied, hoppy barleywine, with lots of fresh oak (that has been exposed to rye and corn alcohol) character abounding. I don't know what the intention was here, but it's sippable enough, if not particularly drinkable, and at least it has a cool moniker - I only wish I could deem it Super Duper Cooper, but, alas, I cannot.
Sep 02, 2015This beer pours a mostly clear, medium tarnished golden yellow colour, with four chubby fingers of puffy, rocky, and fairly slick ecru head, which leaves some decent splattered sudsy lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.
It smells of pungent barrel notes - vanilla, caramel, grainy wood, and a spicy booziness - a further pale and toffee-like malt sweetness, mixed dark orchard fruit, a bit of peppy orange and white grapefruit rind bitterness, middling earthy yeast, and a so far benign metallic alcohol measure. The taste is bready, doughy caramel malt, those scotch candy thingies, a still heady Bourbon barrel astringency - saucy vanilla and besotted wood staves - muddled citrus and pine esters, fading gritty yeast, and more floral, leafy, and well-perfumed hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly understated in its meekly challenging frothiness, the body a solid medium-heavy weight, and generally smooth, the hops thoroughly flattened by the barrel notes, so no potential problem here. It finishes still pretty sweet, the Bourbon, fruit, and toffee pudding trifecta tempered only by the threat of Big Booze, really.
As usual, I'll start with the caveat that I find the idea of barrel-aged IPAs to be abhorrent, an act against beer nature, if you will - why destroy what makes an IPA or DIPA so good in the first place? Anyways, this tastes more like a lighter-bodied, hoppy barleywine, with lots of fresh oak (that has been exposed to rye and corn alcohol) character abounding. I don't know what the intention was here, but it's sippable enough, if not particularly drinkable, and at least it has a cool moniker - I only wish I could deem it Super Duper Cooper, but, alas, I cannot.
Reviewed by PacificNorthWester from Canada (BC)
4.1/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.1/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
Pours a clear copper color, little foam. Smells of malty barley and hops on the nose. The taste begins like a Phillips IPA, but concludes with the overwhelming presence of vanilla likely from the barrel aging. At around 11% it is a heavy bodied ale that requires a dedication to finishing as the vanilla becomes rather obnoxious to chew on if you aren't already a fan of said flavor. I wouldn't buy it again, but it was a fun anniversary beer to try out, and I was pleasantly surprised by their ability to blend these two starkly different flavors in one bottle.
Aug 21, 2015Reviewed by mojo778 from Canada (BC)
3.81/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.81/5 rDev -3.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
New brew from Phillips
Super Cooper aged for one year in bourbon barrels
Nose: strong caremel al out butterscotch from the ale yeast and slight almost ham/pineapple pizza aroma ( of coarse the bread tones coming from the yeast)
Taste: Rich malt and caremel, a little bitterness from the dry hopping which comes through more on the finish and just a slight warming in mouthfeel from the 11.6%.
Overall: almost like they took an aged malty ale and put it in the boxing ring with an imperial IPA! The 3rd round is over, who wins.....I think Malt but you can call the fight yourself... A good beer but I'm still confused, would I buy it again...of course it's 11.6 ABV!!!
Aug 20, 2015Super Cooper aged for one year in bourbon barrels
Nose: strong caremel al out butterscotch from the ale yeast and slight almost ham/pineapple pizza aroma ( of coarse the bread tones coming from the yeast)
Taste: Rich malt and caremel, a little bitterness from the dry hopping which comes through more on the finish and just a slight warming in mouthfeel from the 11.6%.
Overall: almost like they took an aged malty ale and put it in the boxing ring with an imperial IPA! The 3rd round is over, who wins.....I think Malt but you can call the fight yourself... A good beer but I'm still confused, would I buy it again...of course it's 11.6 ABV!!!
Super Cooper from Phillips Brewing & Malting Co.
Beer rating:
88 out of
100 with
17 ratings
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