Chinese Beer: Need Information

Good plan harry, keep the tapeworm drunk.

And it's fattening, so you put on weight?

Strangely, no, and even now, continue to lose weight.
Quite worrying, actually...at the prompting of my family and friends, am
off to the doc this week to have some tests.

Here's the stout - "Blue Ribbon" brand. (Wish I hadn't gone looking for this photo,
because it is in a website where someone alleges that the Chinese
breweries get a bit sloppy, and that some are
infected by certain micro-organisms getting in, along
with the yeast. (so they reckon). Heeeellllp!!! Now I'm a goner!
 



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Here's the stout - "Blue Ribbon" brand. (Wish I hadn't gone looking for this photo,
because it is in a website where someone alleges that the Chinese
breweries get a bit sloppy, and that some are
infected by certain micro-organisms getting in, along
with the yeast. (so they reckon). Heeeellllp!!! Now I'm a goner!

Blue Ribbon beer is brewed in China - but I tend to think this Stout is from the USA 

George was right !!!

from ChiTownComAds

Pabst Blue Ribbon Bear
At the 1893 Chicago Fair, Pabst beer won a blue ribbon, and was called 'Pabst Blue Ribbon" beer from then on.

xwarrior, PBR doesn't sell a stout in the US, just super-cheap cans (6 for $2.99 at the expensive store).

In other news, a local shop here in New Jersey is now carrying Yanjing. The bottle claims that it's China's most popular beer. Somehow I doubt it beat Tsingtao.

In other news, a local shop here in New Jersey is now carrying Yanjing.

JEALOUS!

Here's the stout - "Blue Ribbon" brand. (Wish I hadn't gone looking for this photo,

xwarrior, PBR doesn't sell a stout in the US

I have wasted hours of my life trying to make sense of something that is of no consequence - namely, what the hell is this Blue Ribbon Stout.

All I can conclude is that:

• the stout in the photo has no connection with Pabst in the USA or China
• "Blue Ribbon" is featured on the can but at a quick glance 'Blue Ribbon Group' does not show up on Google
• the logo on the can looks like the real thing but the red band runs on the opposite diagonal
• it seems to be knock-off using a well known brand name

I did learn a few things on the way:

• to log into the Pabst site you have to be aged over 21 - the 'thought police' of democracy are way ahead of China 
• why buy a bar in China when you can buy a brewery in the USA? - Pabst is up for sale

dali beer, which i haven't tried until going to yunnan this spring festival, is one of the best beers i've had in china. i've never seen it anywhere before going to yunnan though. it almost beats out shancheng (mountain city) beer from chongqing which i somehow came to love over the course of a year where it was more readily available than potable water.

yunnan also, by the way, makes the best cigarettes... hongtashan, yuxi, ashima (pronounced like "asthma")

not sure you'll find anything like a guiness (unless you fork out for a guiness) or even a samuel adams... but if you love beer for it's "intrinsic qualities", i'm sure your tastebuds will adapt.

The best for me, superb for quick drinking alongside a Xinjiang kebab, has to be Wusu. Hong (Red) Wusu to be exact. Cheap, cheerful and sometimes not even fake! Of course, you'd have to go to XJ to get one. Haven't seen any elsewhere.

In Hunan, the locals and I enjoy Harbin. Real quality taste and again, goes down well.

One to avoid (and my mates will vouch for this in Nanning) is Guanxi's Pearl River. Utter sh*te. Never felt well after bottles of that wee.