Police seize 37,000 bottles of fake booze in Sanlitun
Proving again that if you’re out trying to get drunk in Sanlitun, you might as well just drink baijiu so at least your brain knows it’s being poisoned: Beijing police detained five suspects and...
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Check Out These Incredible Counterfeit Beers At China’s National Food And...
Chengdu recently hosted the 88th National Food and Beverage Fair (糖酒会), the seen-and-be-seen pimp show for anybody who’s anybody in China’s F&B industry. My own Belgian beer company basically...
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Check Out This US Army WWII Pabst Blue Ribbon Can Made Specially For China
Look at the above and see how many incongruences you notice. 1. “Yes we can” — wasn’t that Obama’s thing? 2. Chinese? 3. Why yes, that does say “in memory of US Army.” Abe Sauer of Brand Channel...
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Jiang Wu had quite the night of drinking in Qingdao, Shandong province. He doesn’t remember much of it, but it was weird, see, because he woke up in a completely dark container, and couldn’t get out....
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Two Stories To Remind Us That Baijiu Has Bite, Is Deadly
Ah, baijiu. Dust of the attic, wine of the gutter. Here are two stories that remind me exactly why I stopped casually drinking it. Subtitle: DEATH AND PAIN. In Guangzhou, a four-year-old drank a...
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An American Hero In China: Adventures With Baijiu
Our writer thought he had a simple part-time teaching gig at a Chinese army hospital. Little did he know, he’d find himself in a life-and-death battle for honor and glory — and “America.” A few months...
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Dear (Real) BrewDog: An Open Letter From China
Editor’s note: Yesterday, the UK brewery BrewDog issued an open letter on its website to call out a “fake” BrewDog pub in Changzhou, Jiangsu province. “I’ll be along to visit soon – I’m looking...
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Alcohol Kills Chinese Official On His First Day As Deputy Chief
The new deputy chief of Qianjiang township in Laibin, Guangxi is dead. Zhong Xiefei, on the night of April 9, died while solemnly performing his duty as loyal servant of the people. Let this be a...
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The Man Who Loves Rum
There’s the only picture evidence you need that Badr Benjelloun’s tipple of choice is rum — pure rum, navy rum, sweet rum, fragrant Yunnan rum, Cuban rum (“love, passion”)… Captain Morgan’s… it...
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The Creamcast, Ep.14: Writers And Rum
Download podcast | Size: 52.9 MB On April 16, Alec Ash of the Anthill gathered eight writers (technically nine) to read stories at Cu Ju, a rum bar in the hutongs owned by the somewhat legendary Badr...
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Where The Fuck Should I Go For Drinks… In Beijing?
The best search engine for finding random bars is Where the Fuck Should I Go for Drinks, which China watcher and delightful alcoholic* Ray Kwong helpfully notes “even works in China.” But how well...
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