Asian Brothers Brewing Company

10/04/2026

An Open Invitation to Partner 🍻

To brewers, distributors, importers, retailers, and Asian food and beverage companies:

Asian Brothers Brewing Co. is looking for partners to help take our b**rs beyond Northern California. We are open to partnerships of any size, from a single pilot batch to a nationwide program.

We are an Asian-American craft brewery based at Happy Harbor on the California Delta, founded on February 13, 2018. "Brothers" stands for a brotherhood across Asian communities. Every b**r we make tells a piece of Asian history, and our customers buy the story as much as the b**r.

Five b**rs, five stories:
• 54 Saigon (Vietnamese Ale): 1954, when Vietnam was cut in half and the war began.
• 75 Vietnam Tropical IPA (Vietnamese Imperial IPA): 1975, when the war ended and the boat people left in search of freedom.
• 88 Mandarin (Chinese Honey Blonde): Eight is fortune, doubled. A man with many friends is the richest man.
• Thai IPA (American-made Thai IPA): Thailand, the Southeast Asian nation never colonized.
• Cambodian Player (Cambodian Orange Wheat B**r): The music and culture Pol Pot tried to erase, still playing.

Even where we brew tells a story. Chinese workers built the railroad and then the Delta levees, and Japanese farmers worked the land those levees made. The Delta looks like the Mekong. That is why we call it home.

Where we are today: our b**rs sell through, and our retail buyers reorder. We're on the shelf at Total W**e & More and Jetro Restaurant Depot in Northern California, self-distributed across 10 Bay Area and Sacramento-region counties.

Ways we could work together:
→ Brewery with 70–100 BBL capacity and canning: contract or co-production, starting with a pilot batch and growing with demand
→ Distributor: taking our five b**rs to new states and chain accounts
→ Importer or Asian beverage company: adding an Asian-American craft line to your portfolio
→ Retailer, grocer or restaurant group: private-label, co-branded or exclusive regional programs
→ Brewer or brand looking to collaborate: collaboration b**rs and cross-promotion

We are not looking to sell the brand.

The next step is simple: a 20-minute call. I'd be glad to bring samples to you, or host you at our taproom on the Delta.

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Cheers,
Michael Le, Founder
[email protected] · (650) 533-5221

This post is an invitation to discuss business and production partnerships, not an offer of securities or ownership interest.

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09/25/2026

Hi everyone, Michael and Dara here from Happy Harbor out on Brannan Island Road.

A few people have asked if we can bring b**r to them instead of making the drive out, so we're giving it a try. If you're within about 15 miles of Isleton, we'll drop off a couple of cases of our Asian Brothers b**r for free, usually within two days.

Each case is 24 cans (12 fl oz) for $45, which comes to under $2 a can. Right now we have 88 Mandarin, Thai IPA and Los Fantasmas.

Just call or text me at (650) 650-5221. You'll need to be 21, and I'll check ID at the door.

And if you'd rather come out, the dock's open every day from 9. Bring a fishing pole.

09/24/2026

🍻 WE'RE OPEN ON THE DELTA 🌅

Asian Brothers Brewing Co. has a new home: our b**r garden at Happy Harbor, right on the water in Isleton.

Every b**r we pour tells a story. On tap now:
🐘 Thai IPA – a toast to Thailand, the Southeast Asian nation never colonized
🧧 88 Mandarin – eight means fortune. Double it, and remember: a man with many friends is the richest man

$5 a can. Ask us the story behind your b**r.

🎣 Fish our dock, open daily from 9 AM ($10 per vehicle)
🍖 Bring your own food to our BBQ area
🛥️ Boaters: tie up and walk in, or grab 6-packs to go ($12)

🕒 B**r garden hours
Mon–Thu: 3–7 PM
Fri: 2–9 PM
Sat–Sun: 11 AM–8 PM

📍 Happy Harbor, 731 W Brannan Island Rd, Isleton
📞 (650) 533-5221

The Delta reminds us of the Mekong. Come sit by the water, have a cold one, and stay for the sunset. See you this weekend!

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09/20/2026

We're open - call first.

Give us a call before you drive out, just so you know we're here — [650 533 5221]. We're a small shop and we'd rather you hear it from us than find a locked door.

Four b**rs in stock right now:
Thai IPA
88 Mandarin
Banana Leaf
Fantasmas

That's what we've got. When it's gone it's gone.
We also deliver locally — 2 cases (24 cans per case, 12 fl.oz) minimum. Call and we'll work it out.
—
One more thing. Dara and I wrote a book.
It's called Parenthood Is God's Grand Design. It's about the seven lessons Asian parents say at the dinner table, where those lessons actually came from, and why we keep saying them. It's short.

You can read the whole thing free on our website. No email, no sign-up, nothing to buy:
asianbrothersbrewery.com/our-books

If you'd rather hold one, we have signed copies at the bar soon.
Asian Brothers Brewing Co. — Preserving our history and culture in our brew.

09/04/2026

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY ASIANS IN CALIFORNIA?

Hey. Somebody asked me once — why are there so many Asians in California? Fair question. Here's the short answer: a war ended, and a whole world had to move.

Start in 1954. Vietnam gets cut in half at the 17th parallel. My family is on the south side of that line, in Saigon. That's where 54 Saigon comes from. The year the line was drawn. Then April 30, 1975. Saigon falls. The war is over. And people think that's the end of the story. It's not. That's the beginning of the hard part. Because what came after the war was the new regimes. Re-education camps in Vietnam. Property gone. Businesses gone. Families split up. Hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese pushed out. And in Cambodia — Pol Pot. The killing fields. Close to two million people dead. In Laos, the Hmong and the Mien who fought alongside the Americans got hunted for it.

So people ran. Some flew out. Some walked out — through the jungle, across the Mekong at night, kids on their backs. And some got in boats. Fishing boats. Not built for open ocean. Pushed off into the South China Sea with no map and no promise. We call them the boat people. Almost 800,000 of them made it. Nobody knows how many didn't.

And here's the part nobody tells you. Somebody had to catch us. Thailand opened a door. Ban Vinai. Khao I Dang. Camps where Hmong, Mien, Lao and Cambodian families waited years for some country to say yes. That's why there's a Thai IPA on our shelf. That door mattered. Then the Philippines opened one too. Morong, Bataan. The Philippine Refugee Processing Center — nine hundred acres in the mountains, built in 1980. And it wasn't a holding pen. It was a town. Schools. Hospitals. Markets. A Buddhist temple and a Catholic church on the same road. They taught you English and how to live in a country you had never seen.

Over 400,000 people came through Bataan before it closed in 1994. It's a technology park now — but the old refugee boat is still sitting there, like a monument. Because that's exactly what it is.

And this didn't wrap up fast. It ran from 1975 all the way to 1996, when the last camp finally closed.
Over 1.25 million of us came to the United States. More than forty percent landed right here in California. Little Saigon in Orange County — biggest Vietnamese community outside Vietnam. Long Beach — biggest Cambodian community in America. Hmong and Lao families all through Fresno, Sacramento, the Central Valley.

That was 51 years ago. Look around now. We brought our culture, our faith, our food. But that's not the important part. The important part is what we did next. We adapted, we assimilated, we contributed, and we're still contributing. They call us Asian Americans. Fine. But we're American all the way through a thread in this fabric, not a patch sewn on top. Look who we are now. Doctors, farmers, teachers, civil servants, chefs, waiters, men and women who put on a US military uniform after a war ran them out of their own country.

And two new Asian American brewers.

We came here with nothing, and we changed the flavor of this whole state. I mean that literally.

So that's what 54 Saigon and 75 Vietnam Tropical IPA are. Two dates. The year the line was drawn, and the year everything broke open. We didn't name them to make anybody sad. We named them so somebody picks up the can and asks — hey, what's 75? And then you get to tell them. That's our legacy. That's the honor. Right there in your hand.

I’m Michael, with my wife Dara. Asian Brothers Brewing Company.

Cheers.

Call now to connect with business.

09/04/2026

Asian Brothers Brewing Company is on the beautiful California Delta!

Do you know where the California Delta is?
Most people don't. Here it is. Right here. And I'm standing on it.

A thousand miles of waterway. Rivers, sloughs, channels, backwater you could hide a whole life in. It's California's first National Heritage Area — Congress named it in 2019. The only one this state has. Millions of people cross it on the freeway every year and never once look down.

Some of the best balckbass fishing water in America is under this boat. Striper. Largemouth. Bluegills. Catfish. Egrets standing in the river tulles. River otters. A hawk working the levee road.

And these levees were built by hand. The Chinese built the railroad first. When it was finished in 1869, they came here and built these.
Thousands of them. Half a million acres of swamp, turned into farmland. Then the Japanese came, and farmed what the levees made. The towns are still up the river. Locke. Walnut Grove. Isleton.
There's Asian history in this mud. We didn't bring it here. We found it here.

And here's the other reason. Stand out here at first light, and it looks like the Mekong. Same flat brown water. Same reeds. Same boats. Same work. Civilization starts on rivers. The Nile. The Euphrates. The Yellow River. The Mekong. People have always built their lives on moving water. So — two Asian American brewers, on a delta, in California. That's not a coincidence. That's the whole point.

Asian Brothers Brewing Company is on the Delta. We brew it. We sell it. And at Happy Harbor, we pour it. Cold, on the water, where it belongs.

Five b**rs. Every one of them carries a story.
54 Saigon — 1954. The year Vietnam was cut in half, and the Vietnam War began.
75 Vietnam Tropical IPA — 1975. The year the war ended. The boat people left as refugees and didn't come back.
88 Mandarin — Eight is fortune. Eighty-eight is fortune doubled. And a man with many friends is the richest man there is.
Thai IPA — Thailand. Never colonized. Not once, by anyone.
Cambodian Player — For the music and the culture Pol Pot tried to erase.

You don't just drink these. You find out where they came from.

So here's the offer. You're out on the water. Sun's going down. You're low on b**r. Call ahead. Point the bow at Happy Harbor.
It'll be on the dock when you pull in. Cold. Waiting. No parking lot, no line. Or tie up and drink it with us right here. Or, we'll bring it to you by boat. It may take us a minute to find you out there — it's a thousand miles. We'll find you.

Welcome to our playground.

I'm Michael, with my wife Dara. Asian Brothers Brewing Company.
Cheers.

08/25/2026

Have You Tried Our Thai IPA with a Steak? This is a great pairing.

08/24/2026

Hãy như nước, bạn của tôi. Rồi hóa thành bia! Này, bạn có biết vì sao tôi có nhiều bạn bè không? Vì tôi khuyên tất cả họ hãy đánh thức Lý Tiểu Long bên trong mình.

Hey, You know why I have a lot of friends? I advised them all to channel their inner Bruce Lee. You know, embrace his iconic philosophy: Be water my friend.

03/07/2026

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