Declan Murphy <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

They made them in the 80s, at least, and it made it all the way to LA.

Mike