Best Vietnamese Coffee Brands

Did you know that Vietnam is the world’s second-largest coffee producer after coffee giant Brazil? It was news to me when I first discovered that authentic Vietnamese coffee beans made up a lot of the world’s coffee market, especially being a coffee enthusiast.

The reason you don’t see Vietnamese coffee when you’re at the supermarket is because they grow mainly robusta coffee beans which are then added to blends made by other coffee brands.

But, when you do some digging into the best Vietnamese coffee brands you’ll be delighted to find out, and eventually taste for yourself that their premium beans make a tasty coffee.

History of Vietnamese Coffee

Coffee never naturally grew in Vietnam and it was introduced to the country by the French in 1857 back when Vietnam was a French colony. The French planted the now Vietnamese coffees in the Central Highlands of Vietnam around the area of Buôn Ma Thuột, Vietnam’s coffee capital.

The Vietnamese coffee beans first harvested were meant to be used by only the French but it was not long until the locals began to love drinking coffee too. This is when traditional Vietnamese-style coffee and unique coffee culture was born.

The production of Vietnamese beans took a while to hit a global scale. The Vietnamese coffee industry slowly grew until the Vietnam War with the USA interrupted it as the region of Buôn Ma Thuột, the best Vietnamese coffee growing area, was sandwiched between north and south Vietnam.

The area saw very little conflict but most people in the region left and thus Vietnamese coffee production was halted.

When the war ended, Vietnam’s coffee production ramped up and by the 2000s Vietnam was the number two coffee producer on the planet. It is now their second-largest export after rice.

As I mentioned above, Vietnam farms mostly robusta beans, in fact, 95% of their production is robusta bea