Takau Golden Ale (Test Brew)
Takau Brewery
- From:
- Takau Brewery
- Taiwan
- Style:
- English Pale Ale
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.58 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Oct 24, 2007
- Added:
- Oct 24, 2007
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by wl0307 from England
3.58/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.58/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Courtesy of the super-generous brewer, Barley Chung. This is the limited version of the regular "Golden Ale" - brewed to the style of "California Common Ale" - or, in other words, a "test brew" before Barley got everything right. The main difference is this one is Pale Ale based, and the regular product is Pilsener based. Coming in a 350ml can, unfiltered and unpasteurised. Packaged on 17/10/07, BB 17/12/07, served lightly chilled in a large bulb wine glass.
A: the colour reflects the mixture of two different malts - Marris Otter and Caramel Malts - coming in a murkey reddish amber; the white beer head is thickly foamy, while the retention is prolonged due to abundant carbonation. Looking very fresh and healthy.
S: the smell gives strong hints of honey, nuttiness, as well as English Pale Malts (with its biscuity edge), while the yeastiness also provides a slightly astringent aroma of tropical fruits to go with caramelised sugar, prune juice, and a little pear-ish aroma. Overall the aroma is quite like some amber ale I've tried in Britain, mainly because of the ingredients, I believe.
T: upfront on the palate comes lightly-biscuity maltiness, but quickly bringing aboard a honey-ish touch (btw, the ingredient does include Taiwanese longan-flower honey) as well as faint aromas of prunes and sour-sweet yeastiness. A mild tinge of "old kitchen cloth" (typical of an English Pale Ale) and orangey+piney hoppiness both linger quietly in the aftertaste to go with the residual touch of biscuits; but, with little support from necessary bitterness, the flavour comes to an end prematurely and feels slightly thin.
M&D: light- to medium-bodied and soothingly carbonated throughout, this beer's can-conditioning performs much better than its sister products - maybe because this one is the freshest when consumed? I personally think it tastes quite like an English pale ale brewed with a little honey, given some typical characters here; if only the body could be tuned fuller, this one can be a real tasty product!
Oct 24, 2007A: the colour reflects the mixture of two different malts - Marris Otter and Caramel Malts - coming in a murkey reddish amber; the white beer head is thickly foamy, while the retention is prolonged due to abundant carbonation. Looking very fresh and healthy.
S: the smell gives strong hints of honey, nuttiness, as well as English Pale Malts (with its biscuity edge), while the yeastiness also provides a slightly astringent aroma of tropical fruits to go with caramelised sugar, prune juice, and a little pear-ish aroma. Overall the aroma is quite like some amber ale I've tried in Britain, mainly because of the ingredients, I believe.
T: upfront on the palate comes lightly-biscuity maltiness, but quickly bringing aboard a honey-ish touch (btw, the ingredient does include Taiwanese longan-flower honey) as well as faint aromas of prunes and sour-sweet yeastiness. A mild tinge of "old kitchen cloth" (typical of an English Pale Ale) and orangey+piney hoppiness both linger quietly in the aftertaste to go with the residual touch of biscuits; but, with little support from necessary bitterness, the flavour comes to an end prematurely and feels slightly thin.
M&D: light- to medium-bodied and soothingly carbonated throughout, this beer's can-conditioning performs much better than its sister products - maybe because this one is the freshest when consumed? I personally think it tastes quite like an English pale ale brewed with a little honey, given some typical characters here; if only the body could be tuned fuller, this one can be a real tasty product!
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