Here’s a few remaining snippets from Yangshuo and Guilin. A speciality of Guilin and Yangshuo is Beer Fish or pi jiu yu. This is often a catfish steamed in beer and then served in a tomato sauce that looks like …
Tag: Chinese Beer
Yangshuo Rooftop Bars
I love a good rooftop bar and Yangshuo has three of the best. All offer the most spectacular views and if there’s a better twilight and evening on a rooftop in China, I’d be very surprised. None are easy to …
A beer with a long name, the Big Goose Pagoda and a Bierhaus
The Chinese occasionally have a habit of running words together when they put the Pinyin translation of a phrase or name in print. That might explain why this beer’s name is so long. Still I can’t recall drinking a …
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Tsingtao Stout, Draco and Happy Chinese New Year
Happy Chinese New Year to you all. As I type this post, there will be fireworks galore going off in China and Taiwan as the Chinese New Year celebrations get underway. Tonight is Chinese New Year Eve, which kicks off …
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Great Leap Brewing
Great Leap Brewing is yet another Microbrewery to commence operations in Zhongguo. GLB have their main brewery in a Hutong in the City and a second at the foot of the Great Wall in a village close to Mutianyu. BoTF …
Limited release “Mash” from The Brew
Leon has created with what might be a first with craft brewers with a “limited release” Irish coffee flavored Stout. The smell of “Mash” alone gets the nostrils flaring. The tasting is nothing less then sensational. A unique combination that …
Pearl River Draft and the increasing cost of Yum Cha
A sodden weekend in Sydney kept this correspondent close to home, but eventually we had to break out and the local Yum Cha was the option. Sydney’s Chinese restaurants aren’t a beer lover’s haven, but you aren’t going there for …
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Taishan Beer (Joint venture with German Craft producer Kritzer) – Shandong
A business visit last year to Shandong involved a stop in Binzhou and a very local lunch in the middle of summer wherein a bottle of Taishan beer was produced. A further visit this week to the same location had a …
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Harbin Beer – China’s oldest beer
On Saturday night, a visitor to the Cantina surprised with a six pack of Harbin Beer. Now this BotF correspondent spent 7 months in China and was pretty partial to the odd stubbie of Harbin – in particular Harbin Black. …
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