If you are going to make your China Travel you will have to taste this traditional and wonderful Chinese beer. Tsingtao Brewery, is China’s largest brewery. It was founded in 1903 by German settlers and now claims about 15% of domestic market share] The beer is produced in Tsingtao/Qingdao in Shandong province (and more recently in other breweries owned by the company as well). The beer’s present-day logo displays an image of Zhan Qiao, a famous pier on Qingdao’s southern shore. Book your China Hotel and come as soon as possible to this fascinating country.
The Tsingtao Brewery was founded by The Anglo-German Brewery Co. Ltd., an English-German joint stock company based in Hong Kong who owned it until 1916. The brewery was founded on August 15, 1903 as the Germania-Brauerei (Germania Brewery) with a paid-in capital of 400,000 Mexican silver dollars divided into 4,000 shares priced at $100 each.
After Japan’s surrender to the Allies and its retreat from China, the Tsingtao Brewery was turned into a Chinese brewery under ownership of the Tsui family and supervision of the Nationalist government in Nanjing.
Tsingtao Beer, a well-hopped standard pilsner of 4.7% alcohol, is the flagship brew, accounting for most of the brewery’s production. An unpasteurised version is sold as Tsingtao Draft Beer. Tsingtao Beer was long advertised as being “brewed with mineral water from the Laoshan Spring,” which contributed to its characteristic flavor.
The brewery also produces a number of other beers, mostly for the local market. Those sometimes
found outside China include Tsingtao Dark Beer (5.2% alcohol), and more rarely Tsingtao Spirulina Green Beer, also sold as Tsingtao Green Beer, a 4.5% alcohol green-coloured pilsner containing spirulina as an additive, and claimed to promote good health.
TSINGTAO BEER FESTIVAL
Every summer, starting the second weekend of August, Qingdao hosts the largest beer festival in Asia with international breweries from all over the globe flocking to the sandy shores of China’s Shandong Province.
The event lasts for two weeks and begins with a grand opening ceremony, followed by beer tasting,
evening entertainment, drinking competitions, and concluded with a themed final ceremony. Besides beer there’s tons of food, both Chinese and Western, to gorge on when you get the munchies. And don’t forget beautiful Shilaoren beach is just a 10 minute walk away.
With music of all kinds featured at the numerous stage venues and beers from around the globe: Beck’s from Germany, Kirin & Asahi from Japan, Carlsberg from Denmark, Corona from Mexico, Heineken from Holland, Tiger from Singapore, Budweiser from the states, and of course China’s
Tsingtao.
Qingdao International Beer Festival Events:
2011 Theme: “Qingdao Cheers the World”
* Grand Opening Ceremony Concert @ TianTai Stadium: (8:00pm, 12th August 2011)
Admission: 2,380 (VIP), 1,980 Yuan, 1,580 Yuan, 1,680 Yuan, 1,380 Yuan, 1,080
Yuan, 880 Yuan,280 Yuan.
Telephone: +86 (532) 5557-9181; 5557-9085
* Daily Schedule of Events @ Qingdao International Beer City: (9:00am-10:00pm, 13th to 28th August 2011)
* Qingdao GanBei with the World! (27th August 2011)
* Closing Ceremony: (28th August 2011)
Beer City Hours: 09:00 – 22:00
* 10 RMB (09:00 – 15:00)
* 20 RMB (15:00 – 22:00)
Book your China Flights and don’t miss this marvelous and unforgetable event.
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