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> Bia hơi (pronounced “bee-ah hoy” and meaning “fresh beer”) is brewed without preservatives or added carbonation.

Tank beer (tankova) from Urquell is same but it last a week or two in the tank to my knowledge and not just 24 hours as Bia hơi. It is properly the best pilsner in the world.

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You don't get beer after brewing. You get wart. Beer you get after fermentation. Since it's alcoholic, it'll last more than one day.

It’s “wort” and since the Vientnamese kegs aren’t pressurized with CO2, they will, in fact, spoil (oxidize) pretty quickly. It won’t kill you but it’ll taste like wet cardboard pretty quickly.

I think this is one of those cases where the typical usage is distinct from the technical origin.

> Brewing: to prepare (beer, ale, etc.) by steeping, boiling, and fermentation or by infusion and fermentation

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brewing

Kind of like how "flying" travel implicitly includes the part where the airplane is crawling along the tarmac. It would have to be some other context for "taxiing is not flying" to fit as a correction or clarification.

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