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It would be good to have a festival by the craft beer club. Maybe Suzhou beer festival can be a great event too. as so many international people working in Suzhou.

Wheat beer with the taste of tea, a combination of tea culture and beer culture:). There are many kind of tea, maybe i can make the first tiral with the red tea with strong aroma.

Rotation of seasonal beer is a good idea. Octoberfest is not available in China. So it would be attractive to have the Octoberfest beer as Samual Adams Octoberfest in the US.

Absolutely right, when someone join the friends with deeper beer hobby. they normally asked me to serve" light" taste beer. but they dont want to have the normal lager beer like Tsingtao, Snowbeer. A homemade lager might be a good substitution .

Pepper beer should be a local speciality in Sichuan. There are big difference in cooking across China. Sichuan food is famous in spicy and pepper with more salt inside. Such as hot pot, smoked meat and sausage . People in Suzhou preferr more sweat and less salfed food. I can imagine if i brew a...

Thanks for your suggestions! The beer culture in China changed a lot compare with ten years ago. People drink different type of beer in my bar. Including some foreigners from Germany. Wheat beer andIPA are more popular for most of the customers. I also prepared some bottle beers from the world...

I was in the US some years ago. I am impressed to the larger variety of IPA in the US. As there are few real microbrewery in China, Most of the pub use the beer from other suppliers. Wheat beer and IPA are more popular in China. For the people who look beer as a fashion, Wheat beer is their...

Good point! I am hesitating for this quite some time. I will brew an imperial stout as the starter!

This is a very good table for reference! Thanks a lot!

Very helpful advice! NEIPA will be definitely the popular type here too. As currently I use lower level of hops in the standard IPA , The IBU level is about 40 and the aroma of Citra attracted my customers .

Thanks a lot for your explanation! This is really new for me !

Welcome to my pub once you come to China again after this special days !

Brilliant! How do you manage to differentiate so many IPAs ?

Sorry, Could you explain me what " neipa style" means! I'm not familiar with the wording here.

Citra is quite popular used for craft brewed IPA in China. I also use Citra for my current IPA brewing. Most of the people like the fruit smell of Citra.