It's beer o'clock in Myanmar - and happy hour for its breweries

Yangon

DRINKERS buying a beer at Yangon's roadside bar shacks used to face a limited choice: more likely than not, they would order a mug of Myanmar Beer, sometimes with a shot of coarse whisky to give the light local brew an extra kick.

These days, there is more variety, thanks to the arrival of Denmark's Carlsberg and its Dutch rival Heineken, which began brewing in Myanmar this year as economic reforms uncorked a market protected under military rule.