Chinese watery beers and others

Just visited Ningbo (寧波) and Zhoushan for a short trip.  As always you cannot expect much to see, eat or drink in the PRC nowadays, as it is an absurd country.  I tried to look for and drink some beers along my way.  It is only for the record purpose:

Watery beers

If possible, I tried to find out some local beers to try, and what I found in Ningbo is a beer called 大梁山.  It was interesting to see the label 大梁山 7度 and guessed it was of 7%ABV.  But we should not be that naive when we came across those products from this neighbouring country.  It said that "原麥汁濃度" is 7 while the alcohol content is actually around 2.5%ABV.  Simply speaking, it tasted like water.

I tried another bottle and I ordered 雪花純生.  Interestingly, it was also of 2.5%ABV, and it also tasted like water.

Good choices in supermarket: Chimay Red and St Feuillien

I gave up drinking beer in restaurant the next day and changed my tactics to visiting a supermarket.  Luckily there was quite a large selection and we picked up Chimay Red and St Feuillien.

We drank them fastly and there should not be much adjective on what they tasted like.  It was simply that: beers should taste like this, and it should be doubtful whether those watery stuff be called the same name.

Munich Brewery

When wandering in a very "high-class" mall (in which you cannot come across more than five people in any direction you looked at), I found this Munich Brewery and walked in.

It was advertised that the beer sold are brewed at its own micro-brewery, and the waiter emphasised that the micro-brewery is simply located on-site inside the bar and restaurant (as taught by my own intuition and experiences, I was very doubtful that those tanks inside the air-conditioned restaurant really supply all the beer sold in the premises).

Anyway, I tried the wheat (yellow) beer and pilsner. Yes, they tasted fresh and nice. I should find myself excited when I walked into a micro-brewery (!!).

Wheat beer

Pilsner

But unluckily, the micro-brewery was situated in a strange country of PRC. 

Anyway, it was my holiday trip after all, and should be remembered nicely.