Dai Viet Bia Den

Brewed by Huong Sen Brewery
Style: Dunkel
Thai Binh City, Vietnam

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Canned (thanks TBone!). Deep ambery brown colour with mediumsized beige foamy head. Aroma is caramel, peach and some slight caramel malts. Flavour is caramel malts along with some nutty and raisiny notes. Some slight roasted notes in the finish. Dry palate. A nice dunkel.

Backlog summer 2009 Thailand,Cambodia & Vietnam Can in irish bar in Saigon Light/medium body & complexity Some malty flavours Pretty ok

Ottima birra davvero!

330 ml can. As Đại Việt Super. From Malaysia.
Dark almost black colour with small light tan head. Mildish aroma of blackcurrant, liquorice and some toasted malt. Flavour is liquorice, malt, salt, raisins and nuts. Very pleasant surprise. Moderate carbonation. I could drink a couple more of these.

Deep cola coloured body with a thin and relatively fast-dying tan head - strong brownish appearance that shows nicely. Aroma of earth, nuts, candies, grapes, cola and a few more interesting notes - much stronger and pleasant that most Vietnamese beers. Light-bodied; Assertive malty flavour with cereal, malt, grain, alcohol, metal and some other bitterness soon following. Aftertaste shows the metal right up front with a pungent kick of minerals, a touch of coffee and roasty malt and a finish of earth and a handful of change. Overall, an interesting Vietnamese beer, kind of an oxymoron, but if I sampled this after 20 pale lagers and had 20 of them to follow, this would easily be the standout beer. But, as I’m drinking this back at home on the other side of the world - this isn’t so great. I sampled this 330 mL can purchased at FiviMart in Hanoi, Vietnam on 18-August-2010 sampled back home on the other side of the world in Washington on 14-July-2011.

Bottle 330ml. A great surprise. Aromas of cola, caramel, and a hint of chocolate. Taste is sweet, with light bitterness, and good length. Palate, is velvety, and medium bodied. Brown, with a frothy white head.

Can 330ml.

Clear medium red amber color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, caramel, berry, vintage malt, malty. Flavor is moderate sweet and light bitter with a average to long duration, old berry, vintage, wood, glue. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20101015]

Can 33 cl. Courtesy of my cousin Martin. Pours a clear dark amber with an off-white head. Strange aroma of industrial glue -WFF?? Medium body, some oxidized roastiness, burned caramel and pumpernickel. A little late licorice in the finish, but hardly any hops. Definitely better drinking than smelling. 151010

Canned. Clear nut brown, rich head. Roasty bready nose. Medium bodied with clean, rounded mouthfeel. Bready/toasty and lightly fruity. Fairly low bitterness. Decent dunkel!

Can. Ugly amber brown with no head retention. Aroma is bland, brassy, with some chocolate candy in the finish (not real chocolate, like Wal*Mart chocolate). Some nuts. Smells like a candy bar. Palate is thin, fizzy, but not bad. Flavors are fine, as is dry with cocoa and burnt coffee. Not bad but below average.

Light golden-brown. Thin head. Aroma is mostly toasty. The body is a bit thin. The flavour is mainly toast. Not all that interesting, but good to see a macrobrewed Den.