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Q: Can you get draught beer where you are?
I can get it where I am. But tomorrow I am going to a place where I can't. None in my wife's hometown.
How about where you live?
Yes.
However, the local recommendation is to never drink anything out of a container you haven't opened yourself. Thank you safety conscious locals
From one place only in our city. A German fella has gone into kahuts with the Chinese to make German beer out of big steel tubs. It tastes ok but not better than that. A bit flat and warm for my liking. But it's still better than Chinese beer which is, as surely everyone knows only too well, piss.
The German brew costs Y38 for a pint and Y20 for 400ml. Expensive if you ask me. Despite that I go there semi-regularly.
Yes, but I don't go out of my way for it. I guess truth be told I am not a beer conisseuer (damn, made me look up how to spell that word. yeah, I know it's not right) I am happy enough w/ regular ol' Tsingtao, which they claim some Germans started anyway, way back when~
ok, to hijack the thread, forget about fancy beer,,,,, here are my two thread hijacks-
1. can you drink china-temp beer? which some of u newbies may be unaware of is whatever ambient temp surrounds said beer container... usually tending towards what we would call 'warm piss' down here in Guangdong~
2. who can remember when Tenants Lager put the foxy Sheila's on the cans? Pint-sized cans at that... 
If you ask if drought beer is available in the place where I live then yes - all kinds of.
But I cannot get over the price ...
I understand that for British beer in China is cheap but in my country majority of pubs sells good beer for 6-7 RMB equivalent per 0.5 l mug ...
I find imported beer prices in China total rip off ...
ScotsAlan:
Yup. A place a few miles from me is advertising German Draught at 55rmb half litre. Too expensive.
silverbutton1:
Im told drought beer can be quite arid for the palate, but im sure some like the dryness of it.
Thankfully, yes!
Also a couple of microbreweries have come up serving some great stuff. Its abt 3-4km ride, but absolutely worth the trip/s!
ScotsAlan:
Ha ha. Sorry, don't mean to be intrusive. I am interested in how the draught beer concept is spreding across China. It has been established in GZ for a few years now, and I would love to see it spread to other cities.
WhyHowWhen:
It is spreading fast in all major cities, quite a few opened in Szn, Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing etc.. as most of them are doing well, will gradually come in 2nd/3rd tier cities for sure.
WhyHowWhen:
And i see many (most, infact) local Chinese customers in those joints, which points to mushrooming of microbreweries in future..
ScotsAlan:
I like that.
As a Scotsman, I know the value of beer, and how it increases inventivness ( Is that a word?), imagination and liberation from the box.
Unfortunately, the process of drinking a slow pint while thinking does not transfer to the Chinese thought process very well. It's normally a case of " we spend to get drunk so we need to be drunk as fast as possible"
Do you think the "slow drinking a pint" culture will succeed here?
WhyHowWhen:
Without an iota of doubt, yes it will..Over the years i have seen persons who used to have VSOP in sprite, now sipping neat XO and talking about Armagnac and Cigars! Give it some time :-)
I am a beer lover too.. salute to the europeans for giving some of the best brews to the world!
Inventiveness, sure sounds nice :-) Wish JB asked for a Bitter Pint instead of that damn DP! :-)
WhyHowWhen:
Isnt it an art to pour a perfect pint with 2-3cm foam being the right way ?
