Is anyone still in contact with Colin? I wonder if he's seen this piece from Charlie Papazian?
" Fal Allen, American brewmaster at Singapore's Asia Pacific's Archipelego Brewery reports to me that there are more than 50 small and independent microbreweries throughout Vietnam."
http://www.examiner.com/x-241-Beer-Examiner~y2009m1d3-Vietnam-beach...
(Fal judged at BrewNZ 2008)