It's totally worth it. And it isn't brewed in someone's bathtub, but at fairly large breweries which deliver it to local shops daily. For those beer connoisseurs out there, it has a very sweet malty flavor and is light-bodied...but not moreso than Natty Ice. The bia hoi parlors aren't "hobo hangouts", but rather emulate any typical dive in the US - a bunch of random guys looking to get plastered. The only difference would be a large number of young brit/aussie tourists also in that group.