[1] The beer is styled as a pale lager, gold in colour with an ideal serving temperature of 7 °C.

[3] Construction of the brewery began in Surabaya in 1929 during Dutch colonial rule of Indonesia.

In 1957 the Indonesian Government appropriated the brewery, and retained control for the next ten years.

In 1967 Heineken resumed operations of the brewery, which was later renamed "Multi Bintang Indonesia".

[4] In 2011, Bintang Beer won a gold medal for Lager (Class 2) and Champion Beer for the lager category at the Brewing Industry International Awards (BIIA 2011) in London.