62 Pilsner
Coopers Brewery Limited

 

It has a straw-to-golden colour and dense, rich foam. Hopped, using a combination of traditional Saaz and Hersbrucker varieties, it has a medium-bodied palate and is generously fermented to produce a well-attenuated Pilsner-style lager.

Very bland offering from Coopers. A decent session beer, nothing more, nothing less.

 

Not to bad very easy to drink

Format: an embossed 355mL green bottle with a standard macro label.

Appearance: pours light straw with a frothy burst of white head that dissipates quickly. Negligible lacing.

Aroma: not much aroma to be honest, with some gritty hops and light grains. Best word: boring.

Taste: not bad, pretty much the light hops and grains again - not much to it. If it was a cheap lager it would be reasonable.

Aftertaste: the flavours disappear very quickly per the style. Not even any bitterness from the hops though.

Mouth feel: a bit too light and with a moderate carbonation that doesn't quite work. Still, drinkable.

Overall: not a brilliant Coopers beer. All of the new beers they have been releasing in the last few years have been pretty sub-par. This one is no exception, even at AU$45 a case. Still not worth it.

 

 

Not exactly what I'd consider a Pilsner. Flavour was minimal and not what I'm used to tasting when drinking Pilsners. The beer is somewhat refreshing, but does not reflect its promoted style I believe this to be an attempt by Coopers to appear a diverse brewer, but this beer is a fail. The worst Pilsner I've had and the worst Cooper's beer I've had.

 

 

 

 

This just garbage from Coopers, I've given it 3 chances now and it just gets worse everytime.

Appearance - Really fizzy bubbles streaming up and sticking to the side of the glass, head... what head it died basically straight after a decent pour. Piss yellow colour nothing strange there.

Smell - Where the hops?? Got some grassy metallic macro grains and thats it, smells like VB or New. Disgusting.

Taste - Like the smell, no hops of notice...wheres the saaz?? This is supposed to be a premium beer for which I paid a premium price. Metallic malty taste, leaves a gross taste in the mouth. Nothing like a pilsner Id think it was a lager blindfolded.

Mouthfeel - Rubbish, watery, undercarbonated.

Overall - FORGET IT...seeing as Coopers Extra Stout is one of my favorite Aussie beers this offering is just horrible. I've just sent Coopers a rather long email about this one..hopefully someone over there reads the other reviews on here and takes note of what I've said.

 

Pours amber with a large fading head.
Nose shows vegetal notes, bready malt, and the usual coopers banana-like yeast. Also some faint spicy hops.
Better flavours, more focus on the bready malt and spicy hops. Finishes a little harsh though with POR metallic notes amongst the bitterness.
Body seems a bit watery and under-carbonated.

A - yelow, golden with a medium stream of carbonation

S - Plain, some hop aroma but the ever worrying smell of macro brewing techniques

T - Cerial grains and typical macro sweetness. It says sazz hops but im getting none if very little. Some grassy bitterness but missing the mark for pilsner freshness

M - Metalic and hard, some ok balance

D - Avoid, I wasnt expecting much but even still I was let down but this beer. Thats two in a row now from coopers.

Atrocious beer, completely unlike most of the Coppers stable.

Froths in the mouth cold like the usual mass market Aussie junk and tastes something like a bad version of Hahn Premium or Cascade Premium.

Bland and tasteless with no evidence of hoppiness good Pilsners are accustomed to - I tasted the lack of Saaz straight away.

I can't be bothered writing anymore on this very lame marketing exercise.

This pours a clear straw colour with very little head. The beer looks dead in the glass not long after pouring.

Awful cereal like aromas dominate. Where are the saaz hops?

Some light phenolics come through on the palate. Wasn't expecting that. None of those on the nose. Not what I want in a pils. Less maltiness than I was expecting.

Didn't get any real bitterness either.

Oh Coopers, why?

Pours a pale champagne appearance, golden in colour with extreme effervescence throughout. Bead is powerful and thick, fedding a moderately thick head of white foam that sinks slowly from the top, leaving a few patches of lace. Looks pilsenery, but not sensational.

Nose is moderately phenolic, and almost vinous, with a light tart edge and a fruity boozey character just tickling the senses. Hops are quite prevalent, lightly floral and almost piney, with an autumnal kind of smell of dried leaves and resin. Doesn't have an enormous amount of aroma, but what's there is quite enjoyable.

Taste is a mélange of bitter with little in the way of maltiness, or anything else. Lightly phenolic alcohol, vinously tart and with a hint of lychee on the front, then descends into a long, resiny bitterness that becomes more aggressively bitter as it profresses, resulting in a small abyss of puckering hoppiness. I'm not entirely sure but knowing Coopers I suspect it's hopped with predominantly POR which just doesn't suit the pilsener profile. There is nothing floral about the hops, and the finish almost tastes stale.

The dankness of the bitter taste is such that is spoils any real 'refreshment' and the palate is completely without nuance, just a bombardment of bitterness, like having a conversation with Gore Vidal about his loving relationship with Truman Capote.

The mouthfeel is quite tingly from the strong carbonation, although a little sticky, which doesn't sit quite right with the bitter flavour.

Although the Pride of Ringworm is used more interestingly here than in most Australian piss, its mostly unpleasant flavour reminds one why the variety is such a stigma of the Australian beer scene. It doesn't fail to make what might have been an OK beer quite distasteful.