R Get Your RMB 50 Off Ticket to Free Flow Beers at Second China Craft Beer Exhibition on Dec 9-10

Skip Work and Spend All Day Dec 9 Drinking Free-Flow Craft Beer (and Then Do it All Again on Dec 10)

Tracy Wang, Senior Editor | Dec 6, 2016 3:00 pm | Add a comment | 2900 reads

Want to know what it's like to be a beer columnist? Come live my life by drinking all day Friday at the Second China Craft Beer Exhibition at the 1,600-square-meter space at 8 Gongti Xilu. Can't get out of work? Do it all over again on Saturday.

Best part? An advanced single-day ticket will only cost you RMB 150, and you can pay easily using WeChat Pay or Alipay – all you need do is follow Imbeer's WeChat Account below:

Once you are following them, send this link here to yourself via WeChat (unless of course you are already reading this in WeChat, in which case just click away).

For those whose advanced planning skills have been addled by a little too much beer swilling, not to worry: provided they don't sell out, you can get tickets at the door for RMB 200.

The event is organized by Imbeer and the Beijing Homebrew Society, with some help from foodies the Woodstock of Eating.

The event features 20 Chinese microbrews, 18 homebrew associations, 10 foreign brands providing beers, three French hens, two turtle doves ... and a total of more than 300 beers.

Your ticket will get you a free-flow beer samples (but you'll have to pay for the food).

If you want to try them all over the event's 24-hour period, be prepared to sample one approximately every 4.8 minutes for the duration of the two-day event.

Homebrew associations include attendees from [deep breath] Beijing, Tianjin, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shanxi, Dalian, Shanghai, Shandong, Qingdao, Zhejiang, Hefei, Fujian, Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, Henan, Jiangxi, Chengdu, and Hainan.

For the local microbrews and foreign craft beers, there will be Harvest, Laotao, 40+ Beer, Drunkenamoy, Beer All, Reberg, Dongli, Nbeer, Mcfee, Peiping Machine, Ib, Mr. Li, Strong Ale, Moa, and more.

There'll also be a homebrew competition over the course of the two days, though judging is open only to pre-selected experts.

Baidu and Google place 8 Gongti Xilu down towards the southwest corner of the Workers' Stadium complex: