Why does Budweiser taste so terrible in Vietnam....?

Heat, long travel time, heat does not make for a good budweizer. Saigon beer is so much better anyways.... Remember this is vietnam....

Because you've left the US and your taste buds are actually developing now and realise how lack lustre (crap) that stuff actually tastes like.... 

I don't think Saigon beer is much better. VN beer is pretty tasteless compared to VN food.

Any beer is tasteless after a good feed of some highly spiced chilli flavoured dish.

Have you tried Legend beer?

The Brew House Legend Beer at 4 Vu Ngoc Phan is the first restaurant in Vietnam, cooking fresh local beer in the traditional German style. So far, after 10 years to build and develop systems, Legend Beer restaurant has developed and expanded to six restaurants in Hanoi and Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai.
With the line technology, raw materials are imported 100% from Germany, beer expert by the German professional assumed cook and follow the ancient principles of Bavaria.
Brewing raw materials are our carefully selected; malt, hops, and yeast are imported from suppliers in the long tradition of German Bavaria. Along with the equipment and technology on the patio, we have produced this kind of draught beer carries the taste of Legend.

Legend beer sounds good; I like German beer.

You mean it's even worse than the U.S. version? I would think that would be quite a feat...

Budweiser tastes terrible everywhere,not only in Vietnam. I prefer Vietnamese beers. I don't know why Vietnamese are crazy about Heineken though,I don't think it is much better than Saigon beer or 333 (but I'm not an expert).Is it "It is a foreign beer so it must be better" thing?

Have some Czech beers,they are great.

laidbackfreak wrote:

Because you've left the US and your taste buds are actually developing now and realise how lack lustre (crap) that stuff actually tastes like.... 

Laidbackfreak may be joking, but there may actually be some truth to what he says. After you've lived here a while, your tastes change, and Budweiser may actually taste the same here as it does in the US, but to you, it tastes different. I've had that experience with some foods as well.

The water used to make any food or drink product has a great influence on the taste. Not the quality of the water but the chemical composition. Pizza is a prime example. For years no one could figure out why New York pizza and Chicago pizza tasted different when tried to be made elsewhere even when you used the exact same ingredients. They finally figured out that the trace elements found in the water used to make the pizza crust reacted differently with the tomatoes causing the taste difference.

Don said it:-)
We cannot forget Saigon water:-)

H2O is H2O
but add nepalm and agent Orange
(Seriously, the salts, dissolved minerals, PH makes water taste different)

Here is one link to one of the pizza studies
http://slice.seriouseats.com/archives/2 … ality.html

Heineken is McBeer. It's become universal and OK, but bland.

Probably a foreign thing in the imported beer, because VN things are not prestigious to the VNese (generalisation).

But Heine is not that prestigious now - it is Sapporo, especially in the steel cans. The cans get their tops cut off for further use - the artichoke tea in my office is brewed in one.

The parties for work go with Saigon Dac Biet at the nearby restaurant, much to the pouting of the Sapporo girl there.