SUNMAI 金色三麥 (Long Sun Brewing) Dark Lager

Dark Lager

 

SUNMAI 金色三麥 (Long Sun Brewing) in New Taipei City, Taiwan 🇹🇼

  Lager - Dunkel / Tmavý Regular
Score
6.37
ABV: 5.0% IBU: 10 Ticks: 7
This is one of our favorites! A specific combination of specialty malts provides a punch of pleasant dark chocolate and roasted coffee aromas without astringent aftertaste. The low residual sweetness gives the beer a slim, crisp body and a refreshing taste. By the way: we love the foam on this one!
 

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6.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

On tap pours out dark brown almost black topped with a tan head. Nose is nice toasted malts a touch of ash and some light smoke. Taste is more of the nice roast forward malts some ash and smoke.

Tried from Draft on 25 Sep 2024 at 11:54


5.1
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Keg at Le Blé d'Or, Shanghai. Dark brown, small head. Toasty nose with coffee and treacle. Sweet with medium body and clean mouthfeel. Bread and cae, some molasses. Low bitterness.

Tried on 12 Oct 2019 at 10:23


5.5
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Light toast and caramel. Clear copper with a small beige head. Caramel and light toast, but not great.

Tried on 05 Sep 2019 at 11:29


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Poured from the tap at Taipei airport. Very dark brown with beige head. Starts with mild caramel malt into a roast malt finish, hint of nuttiness.

Tried from Draft on 30 Jun 2018 at 13:29


7.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

dark brown colour, medium sized, dense, though quickly collapsing beige-ish head;aroma of roasted rye bread and nuts, some chocolate and coffee; taste of dark chocolate, some coffee, burnt sugar and hints of herbal liqueur and maybe heavy roasted nus; good one

Tried on 21 Apr 2018 at 14:49


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

35 cl bottle on March 2, 2018. At the Sunmai Bar at Taipei Taoyuan Airport.Marked 180122_0349 and 180522_00759.Hazy dark brown color, tan head. Sweet, butterscotch, toffee, a bit roasted taste. Butterscotch, roasted aftertaste. Medium mouthfeel, medium low bitterness. Malty, sweet, roasted, butterscotch scent.7/4/7/3/14=3.5

Tried from Bottle on 05 Mar 2018 at 11:55


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

On tap in Eslite. This beer gave me huge problems rating. It is called a Dunkel and styled on ratebeer as a Stout. I really don’t think it fits either description well. However it is very interesting because it takes this dark style of beer and makes it work in Taipei where even in the winter it is 25C and humid. I have rated it on a hedonic scale on this basis. If I rated it against style it would fare much worse. I think it is important to consider the geography and climate and be open to adjustment of style (although I am wary of the fact that so much asian beer has most of the flavour removed). So on with the review... It is black and hazy (actually held against a strong light it is red). It has an OK beige head which is rather thin for the style. The aroma is subtle - dark malt with a hint of coffee. The mouthfeel is light and fizzy, which is wrong for the style, but quite pleasant in this climate, but even so it was a little too fizzy. The flavour was light for the style and to me more stout than dunkel. The flavours were well balanced in a stout sort of way, just lighter.

Tried from Draft on 02 Dec 2007 at 08:27