Cascadia Importers - The Brewery Tour

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		Now there’s a fair amount of beer. Part of the new brewery is a climate controlled warehouse for beer kits, malt extract and of course Coopers Pale Ale (on the left) and Sparkling Ale (on the right).

		In order to achieve an ISO 9002 quality rating, the Coopers Brewery does extensive testing of all their products before they are released for local sale, or shipment to North America.

		We weren’t exactly certain what he was testing, but he did look like he knew what he was doing!

		Plating out Coopers yeast to make certain it is the highest quality possible.

		With the move into the new brewery, the Coopers Brewery also saw a “changing of the guard”. Bill Cooper, and his cousin Maxwell, both fourth-generation descendants of Thomas Cooper, retired. Dr. Tim Cooper, Bill’s son, is now the Managing Director. Dr. Cooper is a UK trained cardiologist who left medicine to study brewing at the University of Edinborough before returning to Adelaide to run the brewery. He continues to volunteer his medical expertise at local clinics. The new Chairman of the Board of the Coopers Brewery is Glenn Cooper, a fifth-generation descendent of Thomas. Glenn is also responsible for the marketing of the Coopers Brewery, and is well known in North America for his love of meeting with groups of homebrewers and tipping a few at the local brewpubs. Homebrew clubs in LA and Seattle are still recovering from his last visit.

		With the new brewery came the ability to provide the world’s homebrewers with even better products. Coopers Unhopped Light Malt Extract is now lighter than ever, with the same high degree of fermentability that was rated in Ray Daniels’ book Designing Great Beers as the most fermentable of all the malt extracts he tested. In our continuing commitment to provide each region’s homebrewers with the products they want, we have the Canadian-style Blonde. This is a light, lightly hopped beer kit designed to make an easy drinking, easy to make, ale. With the introduction of the Brewmaster Series beer kits, Coopers became the first to marry the convenience of a beer kit with stylistically appropriate yeast. The India Pale Ale (pictured) is packaged with a clean fermenting ale yeast. The Wheat Beer contains a Northern German weisse beer yeast. The Pilsner is packaged with a “steam” beer yeast, which exhibits lager characteristics with normal ale fermentation temperatures.


		2003 saw the arrival of the new Coopers Microbrewery Kit. This is a complete kit that even includes bottles, a proprietarily-designed fermenter and an entertaining how-to video.

Thank you for me on a tour of the Coopers Brewery. We hope you have enjoyed it as much as we did. Boy, I don’t know about you, but there is nothing like taking a brewery tour to make me thirsty. So, hey, pull a Coopers brew and play me a game of checkers. I promise to go easy on you.

Cheers
Tom Heffernan
Coopers Brew Products

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