27 February 2012

2012 sees South Australia’s Coopers Brewery is celebrate 150 years of brewing! Not only is Coopers South Australian but it is also Australia’s largest Australian owned brewery and the company is also the largest manufacturer of home brew kits in the world.

There will events across Australia to celebrate this milestone birthday – including the release of a special beer. Details of the beer are, so far, secret but, like most of Coopers’ beers it will be a top fermented, bottle conditioned ale.

Celebrations will kick off in May – the month in which, in 1862, Thomas Cooper released his first commercial brew.