200+ Beers at the Imbeer China Int'l Craft Beer Fest, Jul 7-8

原创 Tracy W. theBeijinger

It's getting sweaty, eh. The solution? Beers, beers, and lots of beers provided by the Third China International Craft Beer Festival. This year's event once again takes place at the China International Exhibition Center (near Carrefour in Sanyuanqiao) on Saturday and Sunday (Jul 7-8), 10am-6pm, and is organized by beer outlet Imbeer.

The event will include 62 vendors slinging approximately 100 different brands of beer. There'll also be new beer launches, beer-related lectures, performances, and interactive games with prizes (see beer pong below). The best part? It's absolutely free to enter but works on a token system: 12 vouchers cost RMB 150 or get three for RMB 50 (buy ahead of time online here: 228.com.cn/ticket-412935038.html; different beers require varying numbers of vouchers).

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We also spoke with the Imbeer team ahead of the event, who said, “It’s nothing dramatically different from the previous two years, we just have several stages to provide performances.” How about the beers, anything special? “There will be over 200 beers; most of them are the basic ones, but there are several outstanding ones, too - from Firestone, Ballast Point from America, and Behemoth from New Zealand.” Most of the foreign options will be represented by distributors.

Cheese beer: it's a thing

Those with adventurous tastes will want to try the cheese beer (IPA topped with rose, matcha, or sea salt-flavored cheese); as an unashamed cheese-tea lover, I can't wait to gulp this one down. Other personal, more conventional recommendations would be beers from Knee Deep, Great Divide, De Molen, ToØl, Pohjala, and Behemoth.

See the list of breweries by region as follows:

America

Firestone Walker
Black Market
Drake’s
Boulevard
Knee Deep
Founders
Flying Dog
Ballast Point
Alesmith
Left Hand
Great Divide
Belching Beaver
Goose Island

Europe

North Brewing
Harviestoun
Brewdog
Wylam
Siren
Wild Beer
Tiny Rebel
Fruli
Gouden Carolus
Duvel
Liefmans
Petrus
Val Dieu
Gordon
Saint Castle
Engelszell
ToØl
Schiotz
De Molen
Uiltje
Lervig
Brewski
Mallaskoski
Pohjala
Kapuziner
Riegele
Karamalz
Brouczech
Les Brasseurs de Lorraine
Birra Del Borgo
Jaws

Africa

Drifter

South Pacific

Epic
Behemoth
Moa
Temple
Kaiju!

Asia

Chengdu Harvest
Ginga Kogen
Jing-A
NBeer Pub
40+
No. 18
Panda Brew
Dangge
Nianyu
Buzz
Lizao
Bubble Lab
Glass Hammer
Reberg
Boxing Cat
Taichi
Lazy Taps
Ubrau
Jinli
Maha Nine
Myth Monkey
Yinma Nanshan
21 Jag
Taihu

The Third China International Craft Beer Festival takes place at the China International Exhibition Center on Jul 7-8, 10am-6pm. Tokens for beer can be purchased here: 228.com.cn/ticket-412935038.html.

Photos: Imbeer, Tracy Wang

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