AtlasVietnam7 on record

Vietnam

Southeast Asia

Vietnam drinks bia hơi. Fresh draught beer brewed and delivered daily, unpasteurised, poured on street corners from kegs that will be empty by evening. It has almost no shelf life by design, which makes it one of the very few beers in the world that cannot be exported at all.

Beers on record

PlateVietnam1 town

Fig. 2. Circle area is beers on record for that town. Labels appear as room allows, so zooming in reveals towns rather than enlarging them. Only towns whose coordinates could be sourced are drawn, so an unmarked town means a missing coordinate rather than a town without beer. Tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Towns as a table1

Towns in Vietnam with beers on record
Town	Beers
Ho Chi Minh City	7

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 7 beers

The record here

Breweries2
Towns1
Styles2

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Sabeco, 1875.

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is only as deep as its sources: 74% of everything it holds is American or Dutch, because that is what the bulk import reached, not because that is where beer is. So the styles most often recorded in Vietnam are not necessarily the ones most often brewed there, and a country with few beers here has a thin record rather than a thin brewing scene.