Saigon Export
http://www.saigon-beer.co.uk/products
Brewed by Sabeco/Saigon Beer Company
Style: Rice Lager
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Saigon Export beer is the only authentic Vietnamese beer brewed in Vietnam and sold in the UK and in the US. Brewed by Vietnam’s Saigon Beer Company ( “Saigon Alcohol Beer and Beverages Corporation” or its abbreviation of “Sabeco”), based in the southern city of Ho Chi Minh City (or the old name “Saigon”). Sabeco is Vietnam’s leading beer producer, and is state owned under the authority of Vietnam’s Ministry of Trade and Industry. Its main brands are Saigon Beer and 333 Beer, and it has about 50% of the market share of the country.
Review: 355ml Bottle of Saigon Export: ABV: 4.9%
There is some rice in this with a dab of malt, or so they say…..
On pour, we get a nice clear light golden colour, looks fantastic, bubbling along with some decent carbonation.
A nice decent frothy white head that sticks around, a small bit of lacing. A good looking beer……………
On the nose I get a lovely beery smell, very piercing aroma of the rice but nice, with traces of lemon. Not a bad aroma…….
On taste, actually not much to taste at all, very very watery.
A bit hoppy, with a light bitter aftertaste, but its slight.
Very watery, did I say how watery it is!
Cant really taste the alcohol…..but on second thoughts I did find some alcohol and tastes of grain in the second bottle…..
Overall not great, a pretty shit light bodied beer…..and I found it hard to drink it…..its not terrible, just nothing to hold it all together…some flavour or tastes would be nice, instead of water masquerading as a beer………
Kilkenny is an Irish cream ale from the makers of Guinness, which originated in Kilkenny, Ireland, hence the name! The brand is managed and produced by Diageo. It is available in draught and cans.
A lot of the reviews say 4.3%, but mine was 4.2% ABV, maybe different for the German market perhaps.
On taste I get a smooth creamy mouthful from the beer, some grains, a bit of caramel, it all tastes nice and very smooth.
Singha is a 5% abv pale lager produced by the Boon Rawd Brewery in Bangkok, Thailand. 
Like Chang, Singha is easy to get in Thai and Asian restaurants and supermarkets all across Europe. 
The bottle top has Singha’s dragon logo which looks pretty cool and there is a yellow lion on the front of the bottle. We are also told that this is “The original Thai beer since 1933.”
No lacing but a perfectly clear looking beer….
Chang, which is the Thai world for ‘elephant’, is brewed at Cosmos Brewery in Thailand.
Thai Beverage, better known as ThaiBev, is Thailand’s largest beverage company, and also has significant operations in Europe, producing malt Scotch whisky, vodka, gin, and liqueurs with over 20 distilleries in Scotland, France, Poland, and Ireland. Chang beer is exported to 20 countries, and can be found in many Thai and Asian themed restaurants all over the world.
With a nice logo of two big elephants facing each other on its label, Chang is the Thai word for elephant, an important animal in Thailand as a symbol of both power and peace.
On the nose I get an initial sweet piercing smell of lemon but overall not so strong, very faint.
Too sweet for my liking, and the tastes are not well balanced.
Brewing in this region dates back hundreds, if not thousands, of years. From the early Slavs in the first century to Bohemians who were brewing beer by 1088. In 1295 the City of Pilsen was established, and with it the beginnings of brewing, and in 1307 we have the first historical recorded mention of the existence of an actual brewery with malt house.
The beer was a sensation: the world’s first golden lager, unlike anything most beer drinkers at the time had ever seen.
Coming in a nice green bottle and with classy looking labelling. There’s an attractive red seal stating that this is the “The Original Pilsner”, just so you dont get mixed up with all those cool Czech beers on the market. This one is the original, make no doubt about it!
Hoppy aftertaste which is a bit overbearing to be honest.