San Diego Meets Saigon

The marriage of Southern California and Vietnamese cuisines for a fresh and bold take on fusion Already having cemented it’s reputation for their incredible selection of craft beers, however, East West Brewing Company’s (181–185 Ly Tu Trong, D1) food is not to be overlooked. We visited the huge industrial chic space that manages to avoid hipster territory with an upbeat … Read more

East West Brewing celebrates 1 year Anniversary!

Loc Truong – Founder & General Manager of East West Brewing – talks about the 1st Global Beer company that’s Made in Vietnam and From Vietnam. The vision and dream has been from the start “connecting cultures through craft beer” and trying to make Vietnamese understand craft beer and drink higher quality & higher standard (craft) … Read more

Getting From Pint A to Pint Z

An evening of Vespas and craft beers My driver for the night, Long, picks me up from District 2 promptly at 5pm and the tour begins by weaving our way through traffic to Café Zoom in the Pham Ngu Lao area. My first observation is that the Vespa’s passenger backrest is quite comfortable—a feature that … Read more

Mot, Hai, Ba, Dzo!

A new player enters Vietnam’s growing market of craft brews Vietnam’s romance with craft beer is brewing into something more serious with the upcoming launch of Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest craft brewery project. East West Brewing Co. built its impressive brewery from scratch after razing derelict buildings to the ground in District 1’s Ly … Read more

Black Soldier Flies

Saving the world through craft beer and soldier flies In the back lots of Thu Duc’s sprawling university campus, one man and his hand-built fly farm is on a mission to save the world’s oceans. It’s a quest that involves the unlikely combination of craft beer, an endangered anteater and an over-sized tropical fly, and Nick Piggott … Read more