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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Better tell Mabel...
Oh, looks super-hygenic! Sure thing, Tran, gimme a mug of that sludge... How many times you fish those cups outta the trash?
Oh you’re no Pho N
Vietnamese stuff is very fresh but I have had Laotian food that even Andrew Zimmerman spit out.
God, no amount of strong drink could remove the taste from my mouth
I used to have my own set of keg taps. The gravity ones, that is.
Yeah I noticed they are gravity taps too
“brewed fresh daily”
I must be doing it wrong.
As good as black label beer?
Ask people in Utah!
It still probably tastes waaay better then anything made by Miller brewing co.
“Watch this! Here, hold my Bia Hoi!”
This is sanitary; you should see how they make soft drinks in Egypt.
Oh, won't you help me, Sergeant?
Get me out of Pleiku jail.
I don't know how I got here;
I was drunk on the Ho Chi trail.
It was Ba Mu'o'i Ba, Ba Mu'o'i Ba, Ba Mu'o'i Ba,
Wah hoo!
Salute!
Back in 1987, I had 33 beer—Ba Mu’o’i Ba in Vietnamese—from France at a Vietnamese restaurant. Later, I found some from Vietnam in a specialty store. But it didn’t taste like it was brewed with formaldehyde, which is said to have been used in the 33 beer brewed in Vietnam so that it would not quickly go sour in Vietnam’s tropical climate.
Ba Mười Ba. Only it is not ‘33’ anymore but ‘333’, The difference is that with the added 3 it is now consistent. Each bottle/can is not a surprise. Nó là Ba Trăm Ba Mười Ba.
Vietnamese beer is the same stuff you can expect to buy in the supermarket in Dubuque. Quality control has improved since the war.
Bia 333 is consumed by many Vietnamese. It is pretty much the same as cheap bear in the USA.
Ahhh tiger piss. Almost as bad as Jax but, you got what you got.
“Whats the vintage? Ah 7:15, that was a good hour.”
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