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Bia Ha Noi
Habeco (Hanoi Alcohol Beer and Beverage Company)
- From:
- Habeco (Hanoi Alcohol Beer and Beverage Company)
- Vietnam
- Style:
- American Adjunct Lager
Ranked #178 - ABV:
- 4.2%
- Score:
- 69
Ranked #28,097 - Avg:
- 2.75 | pDev: 19.64%
- Reviews:
- 12
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 27, 2023
- Added:
- Sep 01, 2007
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 13
No description / notes.
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Reviewed by AzfromOz from Australia
3.48/5 rDev +26.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +26.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
I grabbed this one from Chas Cole Cellarbrations in Geelong in December 2023 and drank it a few weeks later on Christmas Day. I was cooking the hamburgers on the BBQ at the time and so the notes are somewhat brief!
L: Golden yellow, bright white head, heaps of carb.
S: Sweet, biscuity malt
T: Overly sweet, mildly floral and earthy bitterness. Finishes long and sweet.
M: Very light on the carb and prickle, easy to throw back in a hot, humid climate.
O: I can certainly see the appeal in drinking this in Vietnam, but outside that context, it loses its appeal.
Cheers!
#411
Dec 27, 2023L: Golden yellow, bright white head, heaps of carb.
S: Sweet, biscuity malt
T: Overly sweet, mildly floral and earthy bitterness. Finishes long and sweet.
M: Very light on the carb and prickle, easy to throw back in a hot, humid climate.
O: I can certainly see the appeal in drinking this in Vietnam, but outside that context, it loses its appeal.
Cheers!
#411
Reviewed by Sigmund from Norway
2.03/5 rDev -26.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.03/5 rDev -26.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
March 2020: Rerate, 330 ml can, as Habeco BIA HÀ NỘI, from Green Peas, Stavanger. ABV is 4.6%. Clear pale golden colour, moderate to small white head. Weak aroma, some grassy hints. Bland flavour. Really, really bland. Not quite as much glue and rubber this time. A waste of money though.
Original rating: Shared 330 ml can at local tasting. Pale golden colour. Aroma of glue and rubber. Grain, glue and rubber in the flavour. Bad. Really, really bad.
Nov 02, 2023Original rating: Shared 330 ml can at local tasting. Pale golden colour. Aroma of glue and rubber. Grain, glue and rubber in the flavour. Bad. Really, really bad.
Rated by Dentist666 from Russian Federation
2.99/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.99/5 rDev +8.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
4.6% ABV
Nov 02, 2023Rated by Radcpa from Washington
1.85/5 rDev -32.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
1.85/5 rDev -32.7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5
Tastes like they added famaldahide
Jan 21, 2019Rated by spinrsx from Canada (ON)
2/5 rDev -27.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2/5 rDev -27.3%
look: 2 | smell: 2 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
Can thanks to Ian
Oct 02, 2017Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado
2.94/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.94/5 rDev +6.9%
look: 3 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
330ml can from a minimart in Hanoi. Cost was around $0.50 USD. 4.60% ABV. Brief impressions below:
Too sweet, with a heavy artificial malt syrup taste and possibly some diacetyl off-flavour. Overcarbonated. Metallic, lightly syrupy, smooth, wet, unrefreshing.
Malt backbone is all cheap pale malts/x-row. No hop flavour whatsoever.
Simple, shallow, imbalanced, badly built.
Drinkable in that it's largely inoffensive. I might revisit it when in the mood to merely get intoxicated with something cheap and insipid, but it has nothing to offer the discerning drinker.
C- (2.62) / BELOW AVERAGE
***
On-draught (delivered today) impression:
The fresh draught version is vastly superior, bringing a blip of a banana ester, a fresher malt presentation, and far more apt carbonation. Absolutely worth trying, especially at its low price. Clean easy drinking with a nice barley backbone and the beginnings of kellerbier-esque unhinged oxidation.
Low B- / WORTHY
Jun 24, 2016Too sweet, with a heavy artificial malt syrup taste and possibly some diacetyl off-flavour. Overcarbonated. Metallic, lightly syrupy, smooth, wet, unrefreshing.
Malt backbone is all cheap pale malts/x-row. No hop flavour whatsoever.
Simple, shallow, imbalanced, badly built.
Drinkable in that it's largely inoffensive. I might revisit it when in the mood to merely get intoxicated with something cheap and insipid, but it has nothing to offer the discerning drinker.
C- (2.62) / BELOW AVERAGE
***
On-draught (delivered today) impression:
The fresh draught version is vastly superior, bringing a blip of a banana ester, a fresher malt presentation, and far more apt carbonation. Absolutely worth trying, especially at its low price. Clean easy drinking with a nice barley backbone and the beginnings of kellerbier-esque unhinged oxidation.
Low B- / WORTHY
Reviewed by Philpop2 from Australia
3.78/5 rDev +37.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.78/5 rDev +37.5%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The 450ml bottles are the best for whatever reason the cans are nowhere near as tasty as is the smaller 330ml hanoi beer labeled beer which they now disappointingly export. By far the 450ml bia ha noi is Vietnams best beer.
May 14, 2016
Bia Ha Noi from Habeco (Hanoi Alcohol Beer and Beverage Company)
Beer rating:
69 out of
100 with
43 ratings
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