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A new organization called the American Craft Beer Partners (ACBP) has a mission statement you don't need to be drunk to rally behind: "[T]o bring some of the best craft beers in America to China and make them readily available to beer drinkers in Shanghai." These guys are the early front-runners for Shanghaiist 2007 People of the Year.
They just received their first container shipment of 100 or so cases. Contents include (with ratebeer.com percentile score in parentheses):
Rogue American Amber (86)
North Coast Red Seal Amber (84)
Rogue Dead Guy Ale (83)
Brooklyn Lager (78)
Brooklyn East India Pale Ale (78)
Acme California Pale Ale (35)
Yummy. Now, where can you find these beers? Right now, only one location: Bubba's Texas-Style Bar-B-Que & Saloon in Hongqiao. But the guys at ACBP are working on securing presence in other bars and restaurants as we speak — seriously, right now. We're not sure if Bubba's already has these brews on sale (call them at 62422612 to make sure), and we're not sure exactly how much they will cost (although the ACBP estimated somewhere in the RMB 40-50 range). According to the ACBP's press release, Bubba's is having a beer tasting sometime on March 31. Sadly, none of you will be able to attend it, because you will all be at the Shanghaiist Happy Hour at ENO.
In other beer news ...
There's an import grocery store on Anfu Lu near Wulumuqi Lu called FeiDan. They have Cooper's Sparkling Ale for 9.1 kuai a bottle. And they deliver. Tel: 54036991. Just leave some for us!
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Awesome. Rogue American Amber and Dead Guy Ale are two of my all time favorite American Pacific Northwest beers. Glad to see you can get them over there.
we have 750 cases... 100 are in our office. and we swear, we didn't mean to overlap with shanghaiist's event. we've had ours planned for weeks, we just didn't know if the beer was clearing customs or not. sorry, sorry, sorry.
Would you mind shipping a case of Rogue and Brooklyn to Shenzhen? I really miss good beer. I'm tired of drinking Tsingtao and Kingway all the time.
On the topic of Coopers, we do a buy-one-get-one-free special on Wednesday nights at Southern Barbarian (1440 Qiujiang Lu, nr Gonghe Xinlu, call 1362 1797 634 for details.) The deal is valid for Coopers Sparkling Ale, Coopers Original Pale Ale and Coopers Dark.
I can't wait for this event on Saturday. The East Indian Pale Ale is seriously a GREAT drink!