Hue Beer Export By Hue Brewery, Hue City, Vietnam

It is only now that I am starting to see this beer for sale outside of an Asian restraint and upon further investigation into hue on the internet I learned that back in 2008 in an embargo was lifted on Vietnam and the beer was now being exported to the US. This is an unassuming beer that if you did not know to give it a try you might not. This beer is a good example of one that has a malt flavor. This malt flavor is the full rich creamy flavor that wells up in your cheeks as you drink. Hue, like Lone Star does a good job at including this more tactile aspect to it’s beers overall flavor profile. This beer does a good job at running right down the middle of the taste spectrum. Its flavors are neither conservative nor liberal, but right down the middle, which makes it overall refreshing with a hint of sweet bitterness at the end. This lager beer is yellow in color and reminiscent of a wheat field just before harvest time. The beer works best with typical Vietnamese American cooking, and I say that because when it comes to "authentic" Asian food, nine times out of ten you are getting dishes that the chef’s have purposely concocted to please the American palette. As for the beer the, equivalents I can think of are Lone Star and Lhasa (which was last weeks review) This is a happy medium of the two. The beer has an alcoholic content of about 4.8%, which took some snooping on the net to come up with. If you look at imported beers for example those from Asian countries you will see that the alcoholic contents often is not printed on the label so it is sometimes hard to tell how powerful the beer will be. I have found that most golden Asian beers sit at about 4.5% alcohol. The retail price was $11.29 as Spec’s, which is too damn much to pay for beer. However my first experience with the beer was so positive I decided to splurge and bring some home and do a review for you. However, looking at the retail price and trying to remember what I paid for it at the restaurant definitely makes this a beer one you get when you are out to eat and not one you bring home to drink. The cost is prohibitive of that and not worth it. If you are interested in learning more about Hue you can go to the web page

http://www.huda.com.vn/default.asptype=portal&tab=news&menuID=32&SubmenuID=86&path=Hue Beer