How Brewers in Vietnam Are Creating Exceptional Craft Beers Using Local Ingredients - AFAR

"Known for a stout-forward program, this brewery's Cyclo Imperial Chocolate Stout won gold in the chocolate beer category at the 2016 World Beer Cup and showcases Vietnamese single-origin Marou chocolate along with Saigon cinnamon and Mui Ne vanilla. The team, including Vietnamese brewer Hai Trieu and head brewer Dave Byrn, experiments widely—making a passion fruit wheat ale, a coffee stout, drying jasmine for an aromatic IPA and trying fruits from pineapple to mangosteen and even durian—with the explicit goal of creating beers that "yell 'Vietnam' in your mouth" by using the country's tropical fruit, spices and herbs." - Stephanie Cain