With all things American (like Coca-Cola) gaining more and more popularity in Vietnam, SABMiller is making a bug push to claim a chunk of that expanding market. I suppose with the median age in Vietnam being somewhere in the mid-twenties, it’s a very good time to build a following for their beer. Providing a contrasting product to many beers already in Vietnam doesn’t hurt their efforts either.
I am not a beer snob, though I do aspire to be a beer geek someday. In this article, Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head Brewery makes a good distinction between the two. There is no doubt that I have the love for beer, but my level of knowledge is what I need to work on in order to reach true beer geekdom. It seems that I gain a little more information every day, so I am headed in the right direction.
must say it’s refreshing to hear of another country that doesn’t hate us and wants to see us burn. forget the miller, we should be sending our craft brews! that’ll knock the socks off of them. they’d be flying the stars and stripes at their capital building, then.
As long as some of the craft beers that I cannot yet get here in Florida stop by Orlando on the way to Vietnam, I am all for it!