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VB has actually had three stints in Cambodia. It came over with UNTAC and stayed quite popular well into the year 2000. It was in cans back then.
Around this time Carlton United Breweries who brew VB along with Fosters and Melbourne Bitter started brewing Foster's Stubbies (small bottles) in Vietnam.
They stopped bringing VB from Australia and replaced it with "Vietnamese" Fosters. This was a bad move. 99% of Australians won't drink Fosters.
After a while (perhaps a year or so from memory), when it became obvious no one would drink Fosters, they started bringing in VB stubbies direct from Melbourne.
By this time most VB drinkers were happy to drink Anchor, Beer Lao etc at about half the price. VB in Cambodia was doomed.
These days a bit gets bought in by Simon from Aus/Khmer, along with Coopers, Boags and a few other Aussie beers.
Around this time Carlton United Breweries who brew VB along with Fosters and Melbourne Bitter started brewing Foster's Stubbies (small bottles) in Vietnam.
They stopped bringing VB from Australia and replaced it with "Vietnamese" Fosters. This was a bad move. 99% of Australians won't drink Fosters.
After a while (perhaps a year or so from memory), when it became obvious no one would drink Fosters, they started bringing in VB stubbies direct from Melbourne.
By this time most VB drinkers were happy to drink Anchor, Beer Lao etc at about half the price. VB in Cambodia was doomed.
These days a bit gets bought in by Simon from Aus/Khmer, along with Coopers, Boags and a few other Aussie beers.
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Really? I remember our local started running out in 1994 and it was gone by 1995 to the great regret of the Aussies who used to swill it. Never saw it again myself after that. Perhaps it carried on in chi-chi Bogan-Kiwi bars that I didn't frequent...Murray wrote:VB has actually had three stints in Cambodia. It came over with UNTAC and stayed quite popular well into the year 2000. It was in cans back then.
VB definitely made it through the the nineties.
I'll test out a few memories here.
Does anyone remember Peter's No 1 Bar?
My first trip here I stayed at the Sorya Thmey Hotel, which is now the Bun Pav Hotel on Street 63.
My first beer in Cambodia was a VB can at the No. 1 bar.
The No. 1 bar was downstairs at the Sorya Thmey Hotel.
That was approx. New Year 2000.
When I moved here permanently in early 2001, VB could still be found in a supermarket fridge down Kampuchea Krom. I can't remember the supermarket's name, but it was across from the new Sydney Shopping Centre and down a bit further.
I'll test out a few memories here.
Does anyone remember Peter's No 1 Bar?
My first trip here I stayed at the Sorya Thmey Hotel, which is now the Bun Pav Hotel on Street 63.
My first beer in Cambodia was a VB can at the No. 1 bar.
The No. 1 bar was downstairs at the Sorya Thmey Hotel.
That was approx. New Year 2000.
When I moved here permanently in early 2001, VB could still be found in a supermarket fridge down Kampuchea Krom. I can't remember the supermarket's name, but it was across from the new Sydney Shopping Centre and down a bit further.