Rooster Beers

Rooster Beers was set up in Ho Chi Minh City in 2015, originally under the name Phat Rooster Ales, with the aim of making easy-drinking beers for Vietnamese tastes rather than copies of American craft styles. Its branding, by Rice Creative, is built around the rooster, a bird held in high regard in Vietnam. The company is now part of Rooster Beverages, which also makes the Wildside and Fizz drinks. Demand saw it move in 2023 from a 1,000 square metre brewery into a new 2,000 square metre site with more brewing and storage capacity. Rooster Dark won gold at the Brew Asia Beer Awards in Singapore in 2024, and in May 2025, the year of its tenth anniversary, the brewery took five awards at the Hong Kong International Beer Awards, including Best of Show, with medals for its Pale Ale, Dark and IPA.

The beers

• OOO, light lager, 4.5%
• Blonde, blonde, 5%
• Dark, dark beer with coffee, caramel and chocolate notes, 5%
• Pale, pale ale, 6%
• IPA, IPA, 6.5%
• Dak Lak Nitro Stout, nitro stout with local coffee, 4.8%

The five core beers come in cans and kegs. The taprooms also pour beers you will rarely find elsewhere, such as O Long at 4.8%, a 7.5% Double IPA and the Dak Lak Nitro Stout.

Where to drink it

Rooster runs its own small neighbourhood taprooms in Ho Chi Minh City, called Tiem Bia Ga. They have no kitchen: you bring your own food or order in, and pets are welcome. The best known is Tiem Bia Ga by Rooster Beers, Bui Vien at 40 Bui Vien in District 1. The others are Thao Dien at 26B Xuan Thuy, Khanh Hoi at 92 Khanh Hoi in District 4, Binh Tan at 362 Ten Lua, Dong Nai Street at 29 Dong Nai in District 10, and 38 Pham Viet Chanh in Binh Thanh. Rooster is also among the Saigon beers on the long tap wall at Malt Saigon, near the Opera House. All of these apart from Pham Viet Chanh are listed below.