What’s Up in Beer: Maovember Dog Pub Crawl, New Brews Arriving, and Old Brews Returning

Dear beer-lovers, how was your Singles' Day shopping spree? How involved were you in the RMB 168.2 billion GMV for Alibaba Group? I feel your pain – not from spending all my grocery money hoarding deals online, but from the intense keg-hoisting Beer-Active workout we held last Thursday. Better start to save for next week, since Thanksgiving is around the corner, which I can assure you will be more beery than ever.  

Man has two best friends: his dog, and his beer. Enjoy some pints with your little loyal friend at your side at the first Maovember Dog Pub Crawl on Nov 19. For RMB 100, you'll get a pint at five bars: Beer Mania, The Local, XL Bar, Paddy O’Shea’s, finishing at Jing-A Xingfucun. You'll also get a package of Penny’s for your dog (no beers, sorry). For more information check here.

Great Leap will bring the long popular Bearded General IPA back on tap this Friday, which was double dry-hopped with Amarillo hops, with notes of grapefruit and apricot. Named after General Guan Yu from the Three Kingdom’s period, whose typical portrait is a red-faced warrior with long, lush beard, this medium-bodied IPA has a deep amber color from New Zealand caramel malts. This beer will be available for RM B 25 for Collectivists (RMB 45 regular price) on Friday.

After 8X8 Beer Fest, Jing-A is now releasing not one but four beers on tap at both locations. A collab brew with Estonian brewery Põhjala – Late Night Date, a rich Baltic porter with dates and figs that were smoked on lychee and applewood, and a hefty 9 percent ABV. Day Day Hop (above) with (only) 5 percent ABV was surprisingly good. This pale ale is very hazy, with citrusy and fruity aromas, and a resinous backdrop. Death by Mango IPA (with 7 percent ABV) features tropical aromas from brewing with fresh mango with hops. Toasted Chestnut Brown Ale, with 6.7 percent ABV, is a balanced brown ale with warm caramel and toasty flavors from the Beijing roasted chestnuts.

After releasing the Worker’s Pale Ale, Jing-A has put out the bottled Flying Fist IPA: RMB 115 for a four-pack at both locations. Also if you missed the beers at 8x8, currently they put the beers from single breweries (i.e. Gitantic, Breakside, Taihu) as rotating guest taps at both locations, there will be a pop-up event for the collab-brews soon (shh).

Surviving the Great Brickening, the relocated Tiny had already run out of stock on half their beers during our visit. Now they've put three new beers on tap, Centennial Single Hop IPA with 6.8 percent ABV (RMB 45); Bubble in the Beard, a collab brew between Bubble and Cloudburst with 10 percent ABV (RMB 60); and a New England-style IPA.

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