Quote: (06-28-2018 09:15 PM)jordypip23 Wrote:
Quote: (06-28-2018 09:13 PM)Suits Wrote:
Quote: (06-28-2018 07:05 PM)jordypip23 Wrote:
Also hit up the Founders Festival several years ago.
Founders was a weekly routine in my last year of university when I was studying in GR.
Impressively, they are now being imported into China. I can find their beer at a nearby convenience store. Beijing has changed a lot. That would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.
That is quite unbelievable. I don't think I ever would have envisioned that when I drank my first Founders Dirty Bastard beer years ago hahah.
I'm not sure what the economics of it are or how long it will last. A wide variety of imported beers have been available at import speciality stores and high-end supermarkets for a most of the last decade. Microbreweries have become commonplace in major Chinese cities and they are showing up in places like Qingdao too.
When some Founder's beer showed up at a microbrewery location in Beijing that has close to 100 selections, including a significant import collection, I was a little shocked to see it, but it felt easily inside the range of possibility. Everything at that location costs $5USD+ with a lot of it being more than $10, even the locally produced beer.
But I'm not sure who is buying $10 bottled beers from the US at the local convenience store (other than me). My neighbourhood is a mix of some rich with mostly low to middle class residents. A lot of people who take public transport everywhere because they cannot afford a car.
High end mass produced local beer in China costs well under $2 USD, typically $1 for a 500ml can. So I'm not sure if stocking such beer is an experiment or if it is here to stay. I wonder what their turn over is. I've been meaning to ask.