Hit me Tran
Posted on 03/25/2021 12:21:41 PM PDT by mylife
Sure, it seems a little sketchy to buy beer from a guy tapping a keg on a Hanoi street corner, but it’s actually totally legit. Besides, at 5,000 Vietnamese dong (VND)—about 22 cents U.S.—what do you have to lose? Bia Hoi is a traditional low-alcohol beer that’s brewed fresh daily and brought to the street vendors via Vietnam’s ever-present motorbikes.
Grab your plastic cup of brew and settle into the child-sized plastic lawn furniture set up on the sidewalk to watch the fascinating street life. As the day gets later the sidewalk turns into a low-key social experience, as inexpensive Bia Hoi is a favorite with the backpacker crowd. Expats sit around in their tiny chairs sharing travel stories and recommendations while cheaply working up a low-grade buzz.
Basic & Budget-Friendly So what exactly is Bia Hoi? For starters, don’t expect an earth-shatteringly good brew. The simple fact that you can buy it with sofa cushion-change ought to give you that clue. That said, it’s comparable in flavor, color and body to typical light lagers sold by major U.S. brewers. The only real difference is that Bia Hoi seems to have lower carbonation.
Simplicity Is The Key What makes Bia Hoi unique—aside from the price—is the process for making, delivering and consuming it. Bia Hoi is brewed daily at numerous small local breweries in Hanoi. It’s then briefly aged, kegged, carbonated and delivered in kegs balanced precariously on the back of motorbikes.
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Hit me Tran
"Ba Muy Ba beer only beer in Vietnam."
So basically Busch on the patio.
Why do I not have a problem with that?
All the Viet I know drink Heineken, mabe Tiger
Porch monkeys all around!
Sounds good to me. Like N’awlins, only cheaper.
Better this than crack or fentanyl.
“Formaldehyde. We put in just a touch of formaldehyde for flavor. Some people get sick, yeah. So if you have to be rushed to a holpital, then when you return, I give you a free salad.”
You’d think they invented it!
What? No “33”?
Formaldehyde is an export thing, this is fresh.
Maybe less humid too!
Hard Rock Park ( later Freestyle Music Park ) in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina only lasted about a year before it went under in 2009. What happened to the rides? Half of them were sold by creditors and moved to amusement parks in Vietnam.
Never saw an Asian drink Lucky 33
Low alcohol beer? Blasphemy!
Better tax structure.
That’s HIGH beer!
I thought it was Black Label.
I admit, when there is no $1 Genesee on tap, I drink Rolling Rock in a bottle
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