Tsingtao Brewery
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Past packaging of Tsingtao Beer in a display at the Qingdao Beer Museum |
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Tsingtao Brewery
(simplified Chinese:  ;
traditional Chinese:  ;
pinyin:  )
is China's largest brewery, 'Tsing tao' pronounced 'Ching-dow'.
Founded in 1903 by German settlers, it claims about 12% of domestic
market share. The beer is produced in Qingdao in Shandong province
(and more recently in other breweries owned by the company as well),
but the name of the beer uses the old 
transliteration. The beer's present-day logo displays an image of
Zhan Qiao, a famous pier on Qingdao's southern shore. |
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History
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Brewery in Qingdao |
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The brewery
was founded in 1903 as a German-British brewing company to produce
German style beer in China, producing beer mainly for Germans and
other Westerners in China.
In 1915 the brewery was taken over from the German management and until 1945 was under Japanese management, who had confiscated the German share and bought the British share after World War I. After the defeat of Japan in World War II the Qingdao Brewery was turned into a Chinese brewery. The company was merged
with three other breweries in Qingdao and was finally renamed Tsingtao
Brewery Company Limited in 1993. Today 27% of the company is owned
by Anheuser-Busch. The company now owns several other breweries
in China, some of which also produce Tsingtao Beer. |
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