Hue Beer Export
Hue beer has a unique taste with imperial and premium style that brings you full inspiration. It’s warmly welcomed and referred by the world around.
1.9
281 reviews
Hue City, Vietnam
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This was a first time experience for me never having tried a Vietnamese beer so far in my short beer tasting adventure. I didn’t know really what to expect so I went on the net to do some research and I found this product to be a lager. Couldn’t tell whether it was a rice lager or not from the brewery’s website since it wasn’t available in English.
Poured in my footed pilsner summer glass well-chilled (around 6 degrees) it was very lively building a fluffy one and a half inch thick bright white head that quickly faded to a soapy layer. I found the robe to be one of the nice features of this lager as it came out crystal clear exposing a nice wheat golden colour and sharp sunny highlights. Effervescence was minimal contributing to the enjoyment of the robe. The nose surprised me in a bit of a wrong way letting you detect a bready pop-corn smell but wrapped around a sweet malty and sweaty backbone. The sweaty/sweet aspect ended up overpowering the bready goodness which I didn’t enjoy so much. As for the taste, you get the expected lightness of the lager paired with the bready and sweaty/sweet malty feature also found in the nose. It’s not too sweet since I found the taste to be more balanced than the smell from a nice acidity you get balancing out the sweetness and a mild hoppy presence giving some depth to the product, The downer is the mild metallic aftertaste you sense after 2 or 3 sips which ruined the finish for me (beer and metal only go together when referring to music) but in the end it was an enjoyable try for the lager fan that I am not. Ideal summer light beer for lager fans out there.
Standard pale lager from central Vietnam, which I taste side by side with the Huda from the same brewery. This is fortunately better: pours a light yellow blonde, just a tiny bit darker than Huda, but with the same ’dust’ of yeast suspended in it; thin but densely moussy and very stable, very lightly yellowish white head leaving a pretty, branched, tree-like lacing on the edge of the glass. Aroma weak and neutral, cereal or corn-like sweetishness, less metallic than Huda, cooked rice equally noticeable (as expected from an Asian lager) and luckily not suffering from the ammonia-like urine smell Huda had. Taste more sweet than Huda, sourish rice, a bit fuller and even somewhat ’oily’ mouthfeel lining the mouth cavity, minerals, very light bready malt sweetishness, finish of some grainy sourishness, carbonation tingling on the back of the tongue, very low hop bitterness though a very faint echo of hops is noticeable. Clearly of better quality than the Huda, which is probably the reason this is labelled ’export’ (apart from it being exported to the U.S.) and has an English text on the back label as well. Fortunately I tasted this after that vile Huda... Anyway, interesting to compare this with its lesser brother, so thanks again to Sanne and Judith, the nice girls who were kind enough to bring me a bottle each all the way from Saigon.
I have a bottle that was purchased in 1990. How much is it worth? I believe it was purchased by my father. He had it locked up as if it was valuable? Just Curious. Please answer.
bottle A Party Town / Florence KY --- Clear lighyt amber with a thin white rim head, tiny dots of lace. Taste is barely malt that passes through the palate unchanged before finishing with light carbonation. Hardly anything to rate, so inoffensive translate as not enough to have any issues.
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Pours a transparent yellow. Aroma is lemon hay. Almost no taste. Having a hard time coming up with more to sat.
Bouteille de 500 ml achetée dans une SAQ. Dégustée le 15 juillet 2006. Bière blonde très pâle limpide. Mousse peu, col peu persistant. Très effervescente, très grosses bulles. Arôme de houblon et de céréales. Très douce et un peu amère, un peu citronnée. Arrière-goût présent, amertume reste en bouche. Manque de saveur, de caractère.
Smooth pilsner. Pours clear gold with white head. Smells of crisp hops and grain. Taste very clean with a smooth noble hop flavor. Finishes a little sweet but does not hang on the pallet. Do yourself a favor and pair this with your favorite spicy dish.
Smooth drinking if unremarkable lager. Pretty standard fair, relying on addition of rice plus Vietnamese origins to add interest.
Pours a clear honey colour. Smell is a very sweet malt. Taste is crisp but sweet a little like honey.
Pours pale yellow with an off white head . Aroma is grain. Sweet. Middle is lightly sweet with hay like qualities. Finish is light bland malt.
Ins Glas ergießt sich ein goldgelbes Bier mit geringer Schaumkrone. Geruch leicht malzig, getreidig. Geschmack wässrig malzig, getreidig, minimale Bitterkeit.
Bottle in its namesake Hue, Vietnam: golden amber with thin white head, watery and grainy. Bad beer.
Poured a crystal clear pale golden colour with a two- to three-finger white foamy head that diminishing quickly to a collar around the edge of the glass. Laced as a few streaks. Carbonation low with small sized bubbles. Aroma of grain and light malt is typical of a lager. Taste of slight sweetness and a no real hops bitterness. Light/thin body. Short and crisp with a refreshing mouthfeel but nothing fantastic. Aroma, tastes and palate comparable with other large commercial brewery lagers. Worth a try – once.
Bottle from Coppers, Newcastle. This is a pale golden beer with a grassy and malty flavour, a watery thin body followed by toffee and soapy and bitterness on the finish.
Golden with fast fading head. Typical lager aroma. Good level of carbonation. Quite sharp initially. A bit watery and bland.
Bottle from Utobeer, London. Clear golden with a white head. Aroma is sweet, malty and rice. Flavor is medium sweet and light bitter. Sweet finish. Watery. 051013
Bottle from Utobeer to get a new country tick, seeing as I’m far past the point of being able to go to Vietnam on a gap year. Ricey aroma, urine appearance, corn and rice in the mouthful. Pretty bad, all told
Bottle from Utobeer. Medium head with medium duration. Color is golden. Aroma and taste are malt and hops. Boring.
Bottle. Clear golden with small white head. Aroma is malt, corn and grainy. Flavour is malt, grainy, hop, cardboard, medium sweet, watery and a little bitter.
Quite an ordinary beer with little redeeming features. Hints of malts, and has very little to engage the palate. Only positive for me is being able to tick Vietnam of my list. I am guessing that this would be better consumed in a hot climate.
I stumbled on to this by accident experimenting in a vietnamese restaurant. Very much like a cheap lager from the 70s. Actually nostalgic. I was able to find it in the liquor store but most stock is special order for restaurants. Served ice cold it reminds me of a belgian wheat beer. Hint of citrus. Complex but intriguing after taste. Light bodied and not very bold. Very refreshing and not bad with food. Aroma is fairly neutral. As lagers go this is very satisfying.
A very unique malt lager. Sweet mealtimes with slight bitterness. Thick head and light golden.
(bottle) pale amber with a small white head; aromas of sweet fruit, simple watery flavour with no finish
Bottle from Loon Fung London. Clear golden, white Head. Malty, crisp with some bitter hops. Much netter than expected.
12 ounce bottle. Pours a very pale gold with an average white head. Mild aroma of grain and malt. Taste is similar. Nothing really wrong with this, but for sure nothing really good about it. Drinkable.
Bottle thanks to Randomgarbage. Pours slightly cloudy gold with bone white head. Nose and taste of tortilla shells and corn chips. Nose also has hints of salted bread and apple skin in it. Tasted has skunked notes and wet old barley. Light bodied.
Pale golden with thin frothy head. Cereal, floral, and sour notes. Lite bodied, citrus-sour lemon notes, and cereal. Unbalanced, dull, cardboard like.
Bottle bought in Chinatown, London. Light gold colour, minimal head. Malty and somewhat hoppy, this was drinkable and stands up ok against its peers.
Pours light gold with minimal white head, high carbonation. Almost fishy apple juice and hops aroma. Apple juice with slight grass hop finish. Aftertaste apple and bit bitter hops. Pretty ok. Like a hoppy cider. Drinkable. Sweet.