So 4 days in Chongqing. What a place. Big, boisterous, bloody hot and brilliant. This epic city, which 30 years ago, according to my erstwhile colleague @illiards, had a four story department store as its apex, is now the Shanghai …
Drinking in Chengdu – The Long March
I’ve seen plenty of Pandas over my visits, so I shunned the number one reason people come to Chengdu. Instead I chose to walk the streets in the pouring rain and explore some of Chengdu’s drinking holes. After a morning …
Finn Pilsner – Irish Bar in Chengdu
BotF correspondents hide behind their pseudonyms. One of us has Finn as a surname. First time to see Finn as a craft beer. Tried to obtain the poster honestly. Denied. Three people here. Should have just taken the 5 finger …
Drinking in Guiyang – Trip Smith and Monkey King
In doing the research for this trip, I’ve relied up Great Hop Forward for breweries. When it came to Guiyang, however, I struck paydirt when I stumbled across guiyangbites.com This is a wonderful blog written by Jill Marie, an expat, …
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Say it’s not so?! – Farewell to Hopdog Beerworks
It is with a heavy heart that your backoftheferry correspondents pass on the news that Nowra’s Hopdog BeerWorks is closing its doors for the last time today, Saturday July 7 2018. We managed a couple of visits to the source …
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Drinking in Lijiang – Part 3. Dali & Shangri-La
Lijiang is in the province of Yunnan. There’s this journey called the Yunnan Trail which is to travel from Kunming (the capital) to Shangri-La via Dali and Lijiang. I hope to do that one day. Shangri-La used to be known …
Drinking in Lijiang – Part 2
When you tell a Chinese you are visiting Lijiang, they uniformly coo “Lijiang, very beautiful”. And they are right. It overwhelms all senses and even though I try to travel to new places – I will return to Lijiang one …
Drinking in Lijiang – Part 1 Hey Hoo Brewery
Plenty more to come about drinking in this fine city, but let’s start with Lijiang’s newest brewpub – Hey Hoo Brewery. I only discovered it because of an advertisement at Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. In a flash new square behind …
A Chinese beer mystery
One of the quirks of China is the number of weird and obscure European labels one finds in the fridges of the local convenience stores. Today I’ve found a beauty. SuneWBeer (sic) allegedly is produced by the British Caesar Newcastle …
Drinking in Zhuzhou – Shennong Tower and Xun Bar
Zhuzhou is a major city of the Hunan Province. I’m here for some Red tourism – to see the birthplace of Chairman Mao and to eat food with chilli. I chose Zhuzhou as a base because of its Hilton and …
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back of the ferry 