Top 10 Breweries in Vietnam
Vietnam is Southeast Asia's most beer-consumed nation by volume — Bia Hơi (fresh draught lager served from kegs at street-corner stalls) is one of the world's great everyday beer traditions, producing a staggeringly cheap, lightly flavored lager consumed by the glass in plastic chairs on street corners. The craft beer movement that began in Ho Chi Minh City around 2012 represents a completely different tradition: American and European craft conventions adapted to Vietnamese ingredients and the extraordinary food culture that surrounds them. The result is some of Southeast Asia's most creative and technically accomplished craft beer.
1. Pasteur Street Brewing, Ho Chi Minh City
Pasteur Street Brewing is Vietnam's most internationally acclaimed craft brewery, founded in 2014 by American Alex Violette and partners on Pasteur Street in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City. The brewery's signature approach — using Vietnamese tropical ingredients alongside American craft hop varieties — has produced a range of instantly recognizable beers. The Jasmine IPA (brewed with fresh jasmine from Da Lat) is the flagship and one of Southeast Asia's most discussed craft beers: a hop-forward IPA with a floral aromatic overlay from the jasmine that is both unexpected and perfectly coherent. The Cyclo Pale Ale (with kaffir lime), Passion Fruit Wheat Ale, and Pomelo IPA complete a range that has won medals at the World Beer Cup and attracted significant international media coverage. Multiple Ho Chi Minh City locations and a Hanoi taproom have expanded access.
2. Heart of Darkness, Ho Chi Minh City
Heart of Darkness, founded in 2015 in the Bui Vien street area of District 1, has become one of Ho Chi Minh City's most visited craft beer destinations. The large taproom serves a range of well-made American-influenced ales and seasonal beers, with the location in the city's backpacker and nightlife district giving it significant tourist exposure alongside a growing Vietnamese craft beer customer base.
3. BiaCraft Artisan Ales, Ho Chi Minh City
BiaCraft operates multiple Ho Chi Minh City locations and has developed a range of Vietnamese-ingredient-forward beers that extend the Pasteur Street model into more approachable territory. The Bich Nuoc Mia (sugarcane wheat) and various tropical fruit ales have been particularly popular with Vietnamese consumers transitioning from Bia Hơi to craft.
4. Te Te Craft Beer, Hanoi
Te Te (Vietnamese for "dragonfly") is Hanoi's most established craft operation, producing a range of beers that reflect the capital's slightly different culinary and cultural character compared to the southern Ho Chi Minh City scene. The Hanoi Pale Ale and various seasonal releases with northern Vietnamese ingredients — lotus, Vietnamese herbs, rice wine yeast — have built a loyal Hanoi audience.
5. Hoa Vien Brauhaus, Hanoi
Hoa Vien is Hanoi's Czech-heritage craft brewery, founded with Czech technical expertise to produce genuine Czech-style lager for the Vietnamese market. The Czech Pilsner, Dunkel, and Weizen are produced following traditional Czech methods in a Munich-beer-hall-styled venue. Hoa Vien represents the European tradition alongside the American-influenced majority of the Vietnamese craft scene.
6. East West Brewing, Ho Chi Minh City
East West, founded in 2016, has developed a distinctive identity around beers that genuinely bridge Asian and Western brewing traditions. The Saigon Creme Brulee Stout (with Vietnamese caramel character) and the seasonal fruit ales using dragon fruit, lychee, and mango have been among Vietnam's more creative craft releases.
7. Lac Brewing, Ho Chi Minh City
Lac (meaning "wandering" or "lost" in Vietnamese) produces a range of IPAs and experimental ales primarily for the Ho Chi Minh City craft bar network. The brewery's focus on hop-forward styles with occasional Vietnamese ingredient additions reflects the mainstream craft preferences of the Ho Chi Minh City enthusiast community.
8. Beervana, Ho Chi Minh City
Beervana operates as both a craft beer bar and a small brewing operation in Ho Chi Minh City's District 3, producing house beers alongside a curated selection of Vietnamese and international craft. The combined format and the knowledgeable staff have made it one of the city's more important craft beer education venues.
9. Mango Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City
Mango Saigon produces accessible fruit-forward ales specifically calibrated for the Vietnamese palate and climate — lower alcohol, high tropical fruit character, designed for the hot weather that makes every drink session in Ho Chi Minh City a hydration calculation. The mango and passionfruit variants have been the most popular.
10. Iron Fairies (Saigon taproom)
Iron Fairies, the Bangkok-origin bar and brewing concept, has established a Ho Chi Minh City presence that brings the brand's atmospheric, steampunk-influenced venue design and craft beer program to the Saigon hospitality market. The house beers and international import selection serve a primarily expatriate and international visitor audience.
Explore on the map
Vietnam's craft breweries are concentrated in the Bui Vien and Pasteur Street districts of Ho Chi Minh City and the Old Quarter of Hanoi. Open the map to find the breweries and plan a Vietnamese craft beer trail through two of Southeast Asia's most dynamic food and drink cities.