Tsingtao beer

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Tonight, I tried Tsingtao lager, with a salad including cilantro, turnip greens and a simple vinaigrette. I poured it chilled into a skinny glass; it had no head to speak of and a pale golden colour. The aroma is a nice hoppy one, and the beer itself is fairly sweet and malty, with the hops reappearing in the aftertaste. It is a lot like Red Stripe, but bracketed with hops. I think the food pairing wasn't such a good one; it would have gone nicely with something more fried or salty, whereas the salad could've used something more bitter or tangy.

Tsingtao was the last beer remaining in the bucket. I'll post soon with a bucket-in-review including my favourites, and then I intend to review interesting beers I run across in other contexts.

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I used to have this chinese co-worker who *swore* Tsing-Tao was an ancient chinese beer recipe. During our debate on the matter, it came up that Tsing-Tao is a LAGER, what this means is that it is fermented Cold. And Refrigeration hasn't been around for centuries... ( though I guess they could have done it in iceboxes or something was his argument ).

Anyway, it turns out that the brewery was founded by two GERMANS in China a few decades ago.