Kung hei fat choy! 中國啤酒!

Happy new Chinese year... the year of the rat! The Chinese were brewing beer as long ago as 7000BC. Chinese beers often contain rice and sometimes rye in addition to barley.

Tsingtao (青岛啤酒), produced by Tsingtao Brewery, has been the best selling beer in China for eleven consecutive years, and is also the brand most widely exported to other countries, followed by Zhujiang (珠江啤酒) and Yanjing (燕京啤酒). Tsingtao Beer is brewed in the city of Qingdao (formerly spelled Tsingtao) which was a German base in the time of unequal treaties and late-colonial western influence in China. The Germans needed beer for their sailors, soldiers and traders, and production continued after they lost the city to the Japanese in World War I.

Now, don't say the cellarman (金士百啤酒... sorry about the typo) is not an educationalist!