AtlasPeople's Republic of China12 on record

People's Republic of China

East Asia

The largest beer market on earth by volume, and its most famous beer is a German colonial artefact. Founded by settlers in Qingdao in 1903 and still brewed to a recognisably German recipe.

Beers on record

Brewing since

1903

PlatePeople's Republic of China2 towns

Fig. 2. Circle area is beers on record for that town. Labels appear as room allows, so zooming in reveals towns rather than enlarging them. Only towns whose coordinates could be sourced are drawn, so an unmarked town means a missing coordinate rather than a town without beer. Tiles from OpenFreeMap and OpenMapTiles, data from OpenStreetMap.

Towns as a table2

Towns in People's Republic of China with beers on record
Town	Beers
Qingdao	7
Beijing	5

The colour of these beersSRM 5–8 · median 8

Styles here

On the recordcounted from 12 beers

Strength

The median is 4.7% ABV. Half of them fall between 4.3% and 5.4%. Measured on 10 of the 12; the rest carry no strength.

Strongest Airpocalypse (空气大爆表）8.8%
Weakest Laoshan Beer (崂山啤酒)3.6%

The record here

Breweries4
Towns2
Styles7

Oldest brewery with a sourced year: Tsingtao Brewery, 1903.

These are facts about this record, not about the world. They are counted from the beers on file, and the atlas is only as deep as its sources: 74% of everything it holds is American or Dutch, because that is what the bulk import reached, not because that is where beer is. So the styles most often recorded in People's Republic of China are not necessarily the ones most often brewed there, and a country with few beers here has a thin record rather than a thin brewing scene.