Vietnam is hot. It is also very humid. Did I mention it is very hot? For tourist not used to the heat, one way to survive is to drink beer; lots of cold beer. For the month I was there I drank a lot of beer. Charlie is not a beer drinker, but in Vietnam, he drank a lot of beer….
I kinda made an attempt to take a picture of each beer we drank. I may have missed one or two, but the pictures below cover almost all of them. I will rank the beers from 1 to 6 with 1 the best..
1. Heineken and Becks These are both imported beers. Heineken can be found almost everywhere, but Becks I only saw once.
2. Huda, 333, Saigon, all good beers found mainly in the South
3. Beer Laure and Tiger beer. In 1975 it was one beer, and I still think it is made by 1 brewery
4. Mien Trung, Thanh Hoa, Dung Quat. I think these were all made by the Saigon beer brewery, but they were given the name of a local city for sell there ??
5. Zorok It was a bit light for me, kind of a Miller Light , or almost beer!
6. Ha Noi beer. Up North it was the beer sold everywhere. There was no Hops flavor at all, and the malt flavor was almost sweet. I did not like the beer, but in the time I spent up North, I sure drank a lot.
7. Russian beer. I saw this beer in a display case in Saigon. I took a picture, but I did not buy or taste it. I should have, but I did not!
The price of beer.
At a gas station on the road, beer 333 was 10,000 Dong or $ .45 American. Heineken would be $.55
At a hotel, 333 would be .90 cents
At a up scale bar, 333 would be $1.57
At the 5 star famous REX hotel in Saigon beer 333 cost me 140,000 Dong or $6.2
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