The Hue Brewery company's Huda beer and Huda Gold have won the silver medal at the 2013 World Beer Championships, the company has announced.—VNS Photo

THUA THIEN-HUE (Biz Hub) — The Hue Brewery company's Huda beer and Huda Gold have won the silver medal at the 2013 World Beer Championships, the company has announced.

The blind-tasting competition, conducted by the Beverage Testing Institute (BTI) of Chicago, Illinois, and drawing over 600 brewers with 1,699 products from around the world, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States, awarded the Hue-based company's products 86 points and the silver medal.

"It's the first time that the company has participated in the world competition. We are honoured to be the only Vietnamese brewer winning the award at the competition," the company's general director Nguyen Mau Chi told Biz Hub.

The brewery, which is part of, and managed by, Denmark's Carlsberg Group, plans to increase its production capacity from 240 million litres of beer to 340 million litres by 2014, Chi said.

The foreign company, contributed US$50 million in taxes to the government's budget in the year 2013, CEO of Carlsberg Viet Nam Tayfun Uner said at the end of-year meeting.

The Hue-based company, which was launched in the 1990s with a modest capacity of producing 3 million litres of beer annually, exports its products to England, France, Spain, Australia, Canada, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos and Cambodia. — VNS