Two months ago, I went to Qingdao, China for vacation as you saw from a previous post. A few places that I enjoyed the most include: Qingdao Catholic Church, Zhongshan Park, and XiaoYushan Park. But one place stuck out in my mind the most and that was the Tsingtao Beer Brewery and Museum. It started as the German Beer Company (Qingdao Branch) in 1903 and was the predecessor to Tsingtao. This was the first brewery in China to use European technology.
The two-storey building is one of a few Gothic buildings constructed in the city. The four huge copper vessels are kept in the museum and were manufactured in Germany until they were taken out of commission in 1995. The first floor can easily accommodate 100 visitors. The place is huge!
In the museum you can see barley, brown malt, and hops on display. You can also see old posters of Tsingtao advertisements. There's a lot of history you can learn in this museum.
You can see the older version of the factory and how Tsingtao began its long journey to the modern technology used today. Here's just one picture of the old machinery that is no longer in use but kept as a piece of history.
The factory is amazing itself. You can see employees bottling, packaging, and putting the bottles of Tsingtao on conveyor belts. There are countless bottles as you see in the pictures below.
Outside of the beer brewery and museum, you can see statues of Tsingtao beer and beer glasses, which is pretty cool!
You can get one glass of free raw beer and one glass of tap beer at the end of the journey where a Tsingtao pub is. If you pay just a bit more, you can get a sausage to eat with your beer at the pub.
Basic Admission: From May to October it is 60 RMB and from November to April it's 50 RMB.
Scott Worden (L.A./Seoul Guy)
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