The name reads 臺虎, Taiwan Tiger, and it belongs to the brewery that did more than any other to convince Taipei that beer could be made seriously at home. The Da'an tasting room is where that argument is poured straight from the source.
Taihu Brewing was founded in 2015 and grew into the island's largest craft label, a position the beer press treats as settled rather than contested. The Da'an tasting room sits at 335 Dunhua South Road Section 2, near Zhongxiao Fuxing station, and the craft guide Taiwanderers describes it as the more food-led of the company's Taipei rooms, with a kitchen built around burgers rather than snacks alone. The brewery's wider footprint, catalogued on Untappd, runs to several distinct taprooms across the city, from the tiki-themed Driftwood in Ximending to the small Landmark room in Xinyi.
The room
The Da'an space is a second-floor room with the tap wall as its centre of gravity, a long line of handles that turns over often enough to reward regulars who check before they order. The fit-out is plain and beer-first, communal tables and stool seating rather than a designed lounge, which keeps the attention on the glass. The crowd skews local and after-work, office finishers from the Dunhua corridor mixed with the craft set who track Taihu releases. It can fill at meal times, so the room rewards an early arrival.
What Taihu sells that an import bar cannot is a tap list of its own beers at their freshest, brewed on the island and poured a short distance from where they were made. The range spans the expected modern styles, the hazy and West Coast IPAs that anchor most craft menus, alongside the brewery's experiments with local ingredients that have become its signature over the past decade. A tasting room is the right setting for that catalogue, since flights let a drinker move across the range rather than commit to a single pint. The scale matters to what lands on the wall, since a brewery this size can keep seasonal and one-off batches in rotation alongside the core lineup, which is why the Da'an handles change often enough to reward a return visit. Few Taipei beer rooms can pour their own experiments this fresh, and that is the case Taihu has built across a decade.
What to order
Open with a flight to read the current tap wall, then settle on whichever IPA is freshest, the style Taihu pours most confidently. Prices sit in the mid range for Taipei craft, with pints in comfortable double digits and flights a sensible way to cover more ground for less. Pair a beer with the room's burgers, the kitchen's strength according to the Taiwanderers writeup. The honest move is a flight first and a full pour of the standout second, the way the tasting room is built to be drunk. For the rest of the city's beer scene, our Taipei craft beer ranking maps the field.
Who it is for
Craft drinkers who want Taiwanese beer at the source, after-work locals from the Dunhua offices, and visitors curious about what Taipei brews rather than what it imports. It rewards anyone who orders by the flight. For more of the city's beer rooms, Taihu's own Driftwood brings the tiki angle and Mikkeller Taipei works the international guest-tap circuit.
Best time to go
Go early evening on a weekday for a quieter tap wall, or a weekend afternoon when the room opens at 2pm. Avoid the meal-time crush if you want a seat at the bar. Plan the wider night with our Taipei guide or the global craft beer collection.
Sources
Reporting for this profile draws on the Taiwanderers craft beer guide, the brewery's Untappd profile, and its Tripadvisor listing.
