On May 18, 8:02 am, JimBreen <jimbr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 17, 11:40 pm, Declan Murphy <declan_mur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Cooper's is pretty much a boutique (albeit a good one, and
> > increasingly large one).
>
> Nonsense. If you can it at any bottleshop in the country, it's
> not a "boutique".

OK, so a "Smallish independent/regional brewer with a good reputation
& widely distributed" then.

> > They didn't make a stout during the time I
> > was in Australia, or if they did, it didn't make it to Sydney.
>
> The latter, I think.

I left Oz in 1992. At the time I was only aware of the sparkling ale
(red label) and the pale ale (green label). If there was a stout, I
didn't know about it. If they made it back then I guess it would have
been available somewhere in Sydney, but not necessarily in the western
suburbs.