Night 4, Qingdao-Beer Fest!!!!
The whole reason for todays MAD dash through Shandong.... is this: IMG_1478.jpg
This was the last night of the 22nd annual Beer Festivel in Qingdao. For those who don't know Qingdao is the Mecca of the Chinese Beer world. The famous/imfamous Tsingdao beer is brewed here. This festivel in famous in it of itself, its been on my China to do list for too long.
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This place is HHHHUUUGGGEEEE and there are 10's of thousands of drunks all having a good time. With Chinese BBQ on the grills and 3 types of festivel beer, Gold, red, and black.
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The beer served in these 2ltr plastic mugs... we all "sample" the three types of brew on tap.

Gold: High end Tsingdao, a bit heavier and fuller in body.

Red: Fruity Tsingdao but we all question the actual alcohol %, we all think it tastes like Cool Aid (at this point though all of our judgments are starting to be questionalble)

Black: Now this is not beer is it.... it had a very strong coffee flavor and again not that much alcohol, we think...
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No we did not ride to the Beer fest.... but our bikes were to much to resist, we climbed on the in front of the hotel testing the various strengths and load barring capablities of the racks and boxes of each bike....

Tomorrow might be a rough one....