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Q: What's your favourite Chinese beer?
Yellow or green Wusu are quite good as light lagers, the rest I'm not so keen on. Nothing is coming close to a good Czech or German pilsner though -- if you know of one I'd love to know.
I like the red label Reeb, but they don't sell it anywhere. At the moment, I have to take a trip to a big department store way too far away to be worth the trouble. Yenjing and Liquan are good light beers, but they're both regional. Qingdao dry isn't terrible, but I can't stand other types of Qingdao becaues of that wierd sweet taste.
I'm afraid regular old Snow is my beer of choice at the moment. It's a pretty so-so beer but not the worst sold in Zhejiang by a long shot.
woody:
There are a lot of different types of Snow available in Shenyang. Some are much better than others. I will have to take note on my return and decide on the best one.
Recently I was invited to dinner by my GF's older sister and her husband. At the restaurant, he asked for a bottle of a local beer for me to taste. It has a Chinese name (of course), and it it sort of dry and bitter as Heineken. I found it to be a relatively good one, worth asking for instead of Tzing Tao (or whichever way you write it). The only problem comes (as it was explained to me), that this beer is not advertised, nor sold at stores, only at a few restaurants. I will try to get the name in pinyin afterwards, and I will post it below if I do.
Pearl River and Harbin for me. Crisp deliciousness!
derek:
Pearl River? Is that a chinese beer? Haven't heard of it here in the north. Always up to try a new brand.
beaufortninja:
It's pretty good. Named after the Pear River in Guangdong.
i like Harbin and Zhujiang.. i don't get a headache the next morning like some of the other chinese beers.
The various types of Harbin beer are ok. No aftertaste and not much in the way of a hangover either. I consider them to be ultra light beers. Now I'm here in Daqing so I have been sampling the local fare and the most popular local brand is very good. The taste is fresh in my mind as I downed a few last nite at a hotpot with a group of Chinese guys. Oddly enough, they all insisted on "cold" beers. Pleased with that! I will get the name of it and add it to this post.
Kingway and Pearl River beer are good. But why is it impossible to find anything with an alcohol content higher than 4.3%? Most beer here is about 3.6%, and the strongest is Heiniken which is usually my go to beer at 4.7%. I just miss the normal 5% beer at home.
I'll say Harbin or Pearl River as well. Anything that has a good taste and something that you can drink while watching a live sporting event and eating chicken wings.
thedude:
I'm sorry but no one, I mean NO ONE from the US would answer this question in this manner. Live sporting events and eating chicken wings?? WTF? I am having issues with bullshit right now. Have you ever even had a beer?
derek:
Before coming to China I watched the Nucks and Canes at what was then called GM Place. Sure did gorge on "wings and beer"?......jesus!
thedude:
I know chicken wings and beer go hand in hand. The stereotype just sounded phoney to me...normally I say nothing. Where did you find wings at GM Place? Were they $5 each?
8 cans of green Wusu down and I might as well have been drinking sprite...
Right now, I'm on a Harbin kick, but that could change as new brands are tried.
I've had a couple of good Snows, and a couple of good Harbins... but then again, I've also managed to have a couple of extremely bland Snows and Harbins... So, I'm not so sure that they're all made in the same place, to the same recipe, and all that. So, any comment relating to quality would only be temporal :(
(and yes, they were bottled the same...good and bad)
giadrosich:
I tried the Snow brand when in Yabuli last November. Very good, in fact. I haven't seen any around where I live now, but I'm keeping an eye out!
I vote for Corona, I never found one, always ordered it and when was told all out, I would ask the waitress why was she so mean to me. because she would not bring me what I ask. I think it would be fake Coronas that they were out of.
here its xia xia beer as only half decent local beer, thought i was in luck a month ago when i saw some carling bottles and bud as normally higher percentage but they were only like 3 percent. Corona in somewhere like a pizza hut will get you the real deal.
