Based in Ceredigion in west Wales, he makes award-winning mead - an alcoholic drink created through fermenting honey and water.
To provide the honey for his variety of heads Mr Cooper is likewise a professional beekeeper, who appears after greater than 500 hives at 50 specific locations or apiaries throughout Wales.
First promoting his Aron Mel (Welsh for "Honey River") bottled meads lower back in 1999, he says that income has soared since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
We have visible a large upward push in internet orders due to the fact the beginning of the primary lockdown," says Mr Cooper. "And it hasn't faded away.
"Many humans glaringly companion mead with medieval instances, and it's miles an ancient alcoholic drink... But it's miles now increasingly under the influence of alcohol through a youthful, hipster scene."
Since the start of coronavirus, there had been predominant forms of news testimonies in terms of our pandemic drinking habits. We had been both all-consuming far an excessive amount of while caught at domestic or figuring out to cut back, free from the temptation of pubs and eating places.
What has been little mentioned is the fact that the pandemic has made a terrific many of us extra adventurous drinkers, with sales of greater uncommon beverages rising strongly, together with wines from international locations that don't usually hobby mainstream consumers.
The fashion crossed the Atlantic. In Manhattan, New York, Park Avenue Liquor Store first opened its doors in 1934, one year after the cease of prohibition in the US.
Family-owned, its cutting-edge boss Jonathan Goldstein has a concept at the back of our newfound love of extra experimental consumption.
"When all of the bars needed to near, humans had been caught at home pretending to be a bartender or cocktail mixologist, and all of them were given creative," he says. "They were all at once wanting to experiment, so we noticed a huge upward push in online orders for extra uncommon things.
"In our liquor class, atypical things like peanut butter or banana-flavoured whiskey were suddenly very famous. So had been passion fruit liquor, and domestically-made schnapps - all distinctive flavours... Rhubarb, white peach."
But have Mr Goldstein's customers returned to more conventional drinks as the world maintains to slowly, and with a bit of luck, return to ordinary? He says they have not.
"We preserve a sharp eye on wherein liquids tendencies are moving, and we suppose it [the new adventurousness] will retain. Thanks to the craft beer enterprise people are extra used to attempting smaller manufacturers, and new things."
This maintains to nowadays, and Wine Society members [you have to join to be able to place an order] are eager explorers. Since the first lockdown wine income has soared, and at the same time as our contributors to start with sought solace inside the classic wines that they recognize and love, exploration has another time come to the fore. The working life is continuously changing.
Back in the UK, wine retailer The Wine Society says that since the beginning of the pandemic it has seen a huge upward push inside the sale of Austrian and Greek wines.
"The countries that have benefitted the most are Austria and Greece."
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