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If you think beer is just a UK or American thing…think again. It’s exploded in Asia and here’s some of what’s been happening just this week alone, in China.
New Beers At Beijing’s Great Leap Brewing
Beijing’s Great Leap Brewing, who’s name slyly references a campaign waged by Chairman Mao to transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through industrialization and collectivization…was born in 2010 when Carl Seltzer, an expat from Cleveland and his wife Lucy Fang decided to leave their relatively safe corporate jobs in China, to launch first craft brewery
From its inception Great Leap Brewing has focused on using China sourced ingredients in its beers, and that include two recent releases…
Part of the brewery’s General IPA Series, Repulse General IIPA is an 8% ABV ‘Imperial’ India Pale Ale that was named in honor of General Liu Guangcai, who successfully fought off thousands of foreign invaders in 1900.
And, Your Wife is Bunny Blonde (could we get away with that name in the states?), is 4.6% ABV Wheat Ale with strong notes of lemon and Chinese pomelo.
The Dongli Brewery
Shanghai’s Dongli Brewery Opens A Second Location
With China being the world’s biggest beer market it’s not surprising that Shanghai originals like Boxing Cat Brewery, which was founded in 2008, now has three locations in the city. But breweries like Boxing Cat are fast being challenged by relative newcomers like Dongli brewery.
Fueled on the popularity of beer (which is second only to tea in terms of consumption in China) the Dongli Brewery, which is located in the heart of Shanghai’s city booming IT sector, has opened its much anticipated second brewpub just west of the Workers’ Stadium (!).
A Stone Brewing / Jing-A Collaboration Debuts
Beijing’s Jing-A Brewery and San Diego’s Stone Brewing who has its own Shanghai hub, co-released a new beer on Friday, launching taps at both the Jing-A’s location and Stone’s Shanghai-based tap room.
The beer was conceived when Jing-A traveled to California to participate in Stone’s 22nd-anniversary festival. The end result is Delights and Sorrows, (or Tong Gan Gong Ku if you will) a 7% ABV West-Coast IPA brewed with chrysanthemum tea.
