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Q: Beer experts, what happened?
So I tried a new restaurant in Jinan today, "Qipan", decent tuna sandwich and a chicken roll in a Mexican burrito shell slightly spicy, not bad.
I ordered a beer that they said was from France, it's a blue bottle that says Kronenbourg in small letters with a big number 1664 on the label. Now the weird part, the Chinese customs import sticker says imported from France, the label on the bottle says bottled in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and I could swear Kronenburg, different spelling is a German beer.
The idea that the bottle was shipped from Russia to France and then back to China seems to be rather odd.
any guesses?
This nasty swill has been around for a few years now. It's just a cheap Chinese beer masquerading as German beer. I see it almost everywhere now, especially clubs and Chinese managed Western restaurants. Stiggs may have been joking about the formaldehyde, but it's definitely in this particular beer. I drank one one night (out of desperation) and woke up with a massive headache. Steer clear at all costs!
I'm no beer expert but I've drunk my fair share of it (especially this afternoon) so here's my probably worthless input...
It's fake beer. Neither Russia nor China are known for their honesty and IPR integrity and France.. well who knows but I don't trust them either.
ambivalentmace:
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/1498/3970/
yes, nothing about a bottle plant in Russia
ambivalentmace:
http://eng.baltika.ru/brand/105/kronenbourg_1664_blanc.html
Here it is, this is what I had with a France import sticker.
Stiggs:
Hey man, if it still tastes ok and the formaldehyde doesn't mess you up too much it's all good.
You're in China drinking misspelt German beer imported from France and bottled in Russia.
You probably can't expect all that much from it.
ambivalentmace:
http://eng.baltika.ru/maps/77/asia.html#content
have an office in Beijing, I wonder if import stickers are based on the corporate office address, France, instead of the actual production location, Russia,
If that is the case, can't trust the origination on any import sticker.
I wonder if foreigners get a social score, pass the beer.
A shot of the oldest wine in the world was sold to a Chinese rich guy in America last year and turned out it was fake too, lmfao. Hope you didn't pay a fortune to get that beer.
Stiggs:
lol I think I remember seeing that in the news, the Chinese guy was acting like he knew the difference between quality vintage wine and a glass of baijiu mixed with orange juice.
And it turns out it was fake.... 
I wouldn't drink it. Too many "German" beers in China that real Germans have never seen in Germany.
This nasty swill has been around for a few years now. It's just a cheap Chinese beer masquerading as German beer. I see it almost everywhere now, especially clubs and Chinese managed Western restaurants. Stiggs may have been joking about the formaldehyde, but it's definitely in this particular beer. I drank one one night (out of desperation) and woke up with a massive headache. Steer clear at all costs!
well its a french brand wth productn in france n russia, n hv offc in china.
its possibl they cud b stockin' n marketin' frm france.. or via france.. or somethin' else.
world trade is so interwind now..
as long as its originl gds (wherevr made), nothin' to worry imo
