{"id":67,"date":"2016-08-11T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T05:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/?p=67"},"modified":"2016-08-11T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T05:15:54","slug":"vintage-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Launch 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beer Radar for TWTW \u2013 Fri 13<sup>th<\/sup> July 2012<\/p>\n<p>By John Kr\u00fcger<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to sit at the big boys and girls table at the recent Coopers Vintage Ale launch last Friday at the Coopers Ale House and was seated smack bang between Coopers Director of Corporate Affairs, Melanie Cooper and Coopers SA\/NT sales coordinator Geoff Pevreall. You couldn\u2019t get more chalk and cheese but there wasn\u2019t a mention of football or weather; the conversation was fascinating. There\u2019s plenty coming up from the Coopers camp and Geoff was that excited he could hardly sit still.<\/p>\n<p>Last year\u2019s lunch was a bit girly with seafood and twiddly bits. Someone must have had a word in the chef\u2019s ear about bloking it up this year because we started with good old crumbed lamb chops and moved on to a delicious steak the size of a butcher\u2019s fist. Plates of vegetables stood up like flower decorations on stands and remained pretty well untouched. The courses were matched with a few different vintages of Coopers Vintage ale and the 2007 had the crowd buzzing. It was chocolaty and not unlike a good Pedro Xim\u00e9nez. Slabs of local cheeses and dried fruits went perfectly with it. Geoff decided to grab 2 stubbies of the 2007 for our end of the table instead of mucking around with little XL5 glasses, so we had quite a few tastes.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m declaring this year\u2019s Vintage Ale to be the most drinkable now out of any of the previous vintages I\u2019ve tasted. Coopers Vintage ale tends to need a year in a quiet place to bring all of the components into alignment but the grapefruit peel characters of the late Cascade hops really give it a fresh zing. Buy a slab, drink a 6-pack now and put the rest away for next year, or grab a longneck of Coopers Stout and try the most indulgent black &amp; tan you\u2019ve ever had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beer Radar for TWTW \u2013 Fri 13th July 2012 By John Kr\u00fcger I was lucky enough to sit at the big boys and girls table at the recent Coopers Vintage Ale launch last Friday at the Coopers Ale House and was seated smack bang between Coopers Director of Corporate Affairs, Melanie Cooper and Coopers SA\/NT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/?p=67\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vintage Launch 2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beerradar.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}