The participation of Vietnam in the well-known Berlin international beer festival has received a positive response from the visitors to the event, according to Nguyen Xuan Hung, HMSky director in charge of the Vietnamese stand at the festival.

Hung said that despite rainy weather in the first two days of the event, a large number of people called at the Vietnamese stand, filling up its space. Many visitors to the event had to stand to taste the Vietnamese beer, which they said they loved very much. Many of these visitors expressed their hope that Vietnamese bar will be bigger next year.

The director added that the German press had run many news articles about Vietnam’s involvement in the beer festival.

The Berlin beer festival is one of the greatest festivals of its kind in the world involving more than 2,000 beer companies from 86 countries around the world, according to Director Hung. Out of these 86 countries, only 13 have been invited to become the focus of the festival, he said. Vietnam is the first Asian country that has been selected to be the festival’s focus.