Beer guides
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啤酒01
Chinese Beer in 5 Minutes: The World's Biggest Beer Country
The world's best-selling beer is Chinese, and most Europeans have never heard of it. Here is Chinese beer in five minutes.
四03The Big Four: Snow, Tsingtao, Yanjing and Harbin
Four of the world's best-selling beer brands are Chinese. Meet them.
冰04Drinking Beer in China: Jugs, Skewers and "Cold or Not?"
Big bottles, small glasses, endless toasts and lamb skewers: how China drinks its beer.
- 02古9,000 Years of Beer in ChinaBarley beer 5,000 years ago, a Russian brewery in Harbin, a German one in Qingdao. The surprising history of beer in China.
- 05串Beer at the Chinese Table: Hot Pot, Skewers and DumplingsChinese lager was born for food. Here is how to match every style with the right dish.
- 06青岛Tsingtao and the Brewery by the SeaHow a brewery founded by Germans and Britons in 1903 became the symbol of Chinese beer around the world.
- 07精酿The Craft Beer Revolution in ChinaIn the country of light lager, a new generation of brewers is making IPAs, stouts and beers with Sichuan pepper and tea.
- 08买Buying Chinese Beer in EuropeTsingtao is on many European shelves. Finding the rest takes a little more curiosity.