Gold Medal Taiwan Beer

Brewed by Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corp
Style: Pale Lager
Taipei, Taiwan

Serve in Dimpled mug, English pint, Lager glass, Shaker

From bottle into standard shaker pint glass. Typical pour for an import lager: 1" white head that sticks for a minute and dies to nothing. Translucent yellow-gold. Aroma is faint, and old-smelling...somehow like skunky honey. Flavor starts out honey, 100%--actually pretty tasty--then devolves into strange fruity lager. Touch of hops buried in there. Super sweet finish. Strange beer--highs and lows. I could see myself enjoying a few with some classic Thai dishes.

Color is super pale! White head that is very pale. Smell is pretty awful. Beer is cold. Cardboad box taste. Skunk.

Poured a very pale yellow with a big white head. Aroma is pretty awful with vinegar and skunk. Some honey. Taste is syrupy with rice. Some grain flavors. Not bad, but not great, at least not too watery.

Green bottle. It isn’t skunked. It is a bit on the fruitier, nuttier side for a pale lager, still sucks.

UPDATED: AUG 29, 2011 Taiwan beer gold is a good beer. Better than the standard affair. It’s fantastic with food. The taste is slightly citrus with a rice edge. The palate is a little metalic but overall it’s a very enjoyable lager. What’s laughable is how much it wants to be Heineken ( label, bottle and little awards on the sticker). Which is a shame because it doesn’t need to pretend to be another beer. As a local of taiwan I’ve consumed a ton of these and will continue to do so.

Definitely drinkable, although you can’t hope for much more. One of the better macro lagers of east Asia

Bottle served in a lager glass. Pours hazy orange with a short white head. Minimal retention and lacing. Very sweet aroma of wheat and orange citrus. Sweet flavor. Medium-light body, watery-creamy palate, soft carbonation, and a light bittersweet finish.

At a tasting, thanks zvikar, smallish head, clear golden colour, light aroma of hops with rice, some bread, styrofoam and spice, strong flavour of rice which is quite sweet and feels artificial, short metalic aftertaste. Could be worse.