Visitors taste Vietnamese fruit-flavoured craft beer products at the expo.(Photo: Vietnamese Embassy in New Zealand)
Hanoi (VNA) – High-quality and good taste of 18 made-in-Vietnambeer products left impression on visitors at the Pacific Beer Expo 2017, whichwas held in Wellington, New Zealand, on October 21 and 22.
Organised since 2011, the expo has become an annual beer festival and served asa venue to popularise new products of breweries in New Zealand andAsia-Pacific.
This year, three Vietnamese breweries, namely Pasteur Street Brewing Co., Ltd,East-West Brewery Co. and Heart of Darkness Brewery, brought to the expo theirlatest drinking products which were highly appraised by the organizers andvisitors.
The Pasteur Street Brewing Co., Ltd,which attended the expo for the first time, dazzled beer connoisseurs at theevent. Earlier, its Chocolate Cyclo Stout earned the company a gold medal atthe World Beer Cup Competition in the US in May, 2016.
Together with Maison Marou which has been available in New Zealand in 2016,Vietnamese fruit-flavoured craft beer products will be sold in the country,including beer with taste of dragon fruit, passion fruit, coffee, cocoa,vanilla and jasmine.
Brandon Watts, General Manager of Pasteur Street Brewing, hoped to nudgeVietnamese beer products closer to customers in New Zealand.
The Vietnam Trade Office in New Zealand proactively supported the companies inpopularising and exhibiting their products at the fair.
The expo was a golden chance forVietnamese enterprises to introduce their new-generation drinks to foreignconsumers.-VNA
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