Traditional Hanoi Egg Beer Recipe – Vietnamese Egg in Beer Recipe

Have you ever tried egg in beer? No. Then get ready to try the weirdest but tastiest butterbeer recipe (for adults) of your life! Because yes, that’s how Vietnam’s famous egg beer actually tastes like. The famous Giang Cafe on the streets of Hanoi has a tasty surprise for you; their delicious egg beer. The best butterbeer for adults we have ever tried!

Where is the best place to try Egg beer in Hanoi, Vietnam?

It’s still the charming, vintage Giang cafe on the busy streets of Hanoi. You can find the intimate Cafe Giang almost hidden between two more modern looking stores. However, when you step in you’ll feel as if you just stepped into a delicious memory from the past.

The cafe’s owner Mr. Nguyen Van Dao has created it’s well-known egg coffee back in 1946 while he was working at the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hotel. Proving once and for all that Vietnam may have been short of milk but never on good ideas.

Shortly, he realized that after the first sip both Vietnamese and foreigners fell in love with his special drink. He decided to leave the hotel and create his own luck and open a coffee house.

Since then the humble but ever busy Giang Cafe serves its guests from all over the planet. However, you can find a lot more there than just the best egg coffee. You can also find the best egg beer we have tried to this very day.

In case you love this drink and would love to learn more about Vietnamese dishes and Vietnam travel destinations or planning to visit the south and want to know what are the best things to do in Hoi An then we got your back.

Vietnamese Egg Beer in Hanoi

The Vietnamese Egg beer tastes like a creamy vanilla heaven… with beer. Surprisingly pleasing, a perfect drink for cold autumn or winter nights.

Although it is kind of heavy, it feels more like a dessert than a drink since they whisk the egg before they put it in your glass.

Right after “Yummy!” my second thought was “This tastes just like butterbeer! Only, it’s might be better…” So we went and tried to find out the recipe of this delight. It turns out the recipe is more or less a secret.

We know for sure that it contains beer, condensed milk, a little butter, and cheese but Mr. Nguyen understandable won’t reveal all the details of his famous recipe. Which just gave us one more reason to experiment with it. As if we needed more…

Butterbeer Recipe for adults Hanoi Style

Method
1. Put the egg yolks, condensed milk, cream cheese, and whipped butter in a mixing bowl. Whisk it until it’s pale and foamy.
2. Pour mixture into a big jug then add beer, cream soda, butterscotch schnapps.
3. Serve immediately, preferably with spoons.
4. If you have a sweet tooth you can even add one or two spoonful of marshmallow fluff.

Traditional Hanoi Egg Beer Recipe

You can make a hot or a cold egg beer depending on your taste.

Method
1. Put the egg yolks, condensed milk, cream cheese, and whipped butter in a mixing bowl. Whisk it until it’s pale and foamy.
2. Pour mixture into a big jug then add beer.
3. Serve immediately, preferably with spoons.