Golden Gobi
Apu Brewery
- From:
- Apu Brewery
- Mongolia
- Style:
- American Lager
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.39 | pDev: 11.21%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 19, 2025
- Added:
- Sep 20, 2014
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Beginner2 from Illinois
3.28/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
3.28/5 rDev -3.2%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 4
You gotta love Abu for trying.
Certainly beer to us is something different than Mongols on the high steppe, arid and dry. Not somewhere hops grow.
So we should not be surprised that hops, a very expensive ingredient in Mongolia, has minimal presence in this brew.
My can from a Korean convenience store chain announces itself as Altan Gobi (a Cyrillicification of Golden.)
Golden Gobi is as advertised, a faint golden that Looks average for the style including low bubbles. In fact, Golden also Tastes and Feels average; balanced but marginally refreshing and light. I deduct for the Smell as I detect a faint sweet malt.
We also have to consider the cuisine Golden Gobi is brewed for. Now, I have to imagine what Mongolian food tastes like. But I can imagine that Golden serves to mellow the palate that uses spices rare to us Westerners. So, I had it to wash down some ramen that I bought from the same store. Nothing about this meal is going to change the world. But at least it opened my horizons further to how lucky we are in the West.
My first from APU (Absolute, Pure, Unique), I go on their website and read they are a food production company in the Mongolian market. Beer is a sub-category for them. But they are to be encouraged for bringing brewdom to a quite different place. Golden Gobi also is my first review of a Mongolian beer. Bayartai ! (That the Romanisation of Cheers in Mongolian, in case you ever need to use it.)
Jul 19, 2025Certainly beer to us is something different than Mongols on the high steppe, arid and dry. Not somewhere hops grow.
So we should not be surprised that hops, a very expensive ingredient in Mongolia, has minimal presence in this brew.
My can from a Korean convenience store chain announces itself as Altan Gobi (a Cyrillicification of Golden.)
Golden Gobi is as advertised, a faint golden that Looks average for the style including low bubbles. In fact, Golden also Tastes and Feels average; balanced but marginally refreshing and light. I deduct for the Smell as I detect a faint sweet malt.
We also have to consider the cuisine Golden Gobi is brewed for. Now, I have to imagine what Mongolian food tastes like. But I can imagine that Golden serves to mellow the palate that uses spices rare to us Westerners. So, I had it to wash down some ramen that I bought from the same store. Nothing about this meal is going to change the world. But at least it opened my horizons further to how lucky we are in the West.
My first from APU (Absolute, Pure, Unique), I go on their website and read they are a food production company in the Mongolian market. Beer is a sub-category for them. But they are to be encouraged for bringing brewdom to a quite different place. Golden Gobi also is my first review of a Mongolian beer. Bayartai ! (That the Romanisation of Cheers in Mongolian, in case you ever need to use it.)
Reviewed by Hopweiser from South Korea
3.55/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
L: Pours about 90% transparent pale golden with a thin white head that dissipates quickly and leaves spotty lacing.
S: In the nose, subtle aromas of grassy and herbal hops combine with malty notes of grains and cracker.
T: The taste is similar to the nose. Slight sweetness, bitterness, and acidity come altogether.
F: It's light-medium bodied, moderately carbonated, smooth, and slightly creamy.
O: In a convenience store near my home, I saw an unusual-looking can and I learned that it was brewed in Mongolia. It's the first Mongolian beer that I’ve ever seen, and it turned out to be quite a decent pale lager that was mild, quaffable, and well-balanced.
Dec 26, 2024S: In the nose, subtle aromas of grassy and herbal hops combine with malty notes of grains and cracker.
T: The taste is similar to the nose. Slight sweetness, bitterness, and acidity come altogether.
F: It's light-medium bodied, moderately carbonated, smooth, and slightly creamy.
O: In a convenience store near my home, I saw an unusual-looking can and I learned that it was brewed in Mongolia. It's the first Mongolian beer that I’ve ever seen, and it turned out to be quite a decent pale lager that was mild, quaffable, and well-balanced.
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