News & Comment
News & Comment
Industry reporting, policy and books. Beyond the cover study, a record of what is happening at the springs, the breweries and the street.
NewsBaotuquan draught sells about 100 tonnes a day — half of Jinan’s craft market
A local brand has written spring water into both process and outlets: more than two thousand barbecue stalls, restaurants and beerhouses are turning craft beer from a hobby into summer infrastructure.
Jianshan Wu · 14 September 2026
News FeatureUnder the spring monument, a festival that stitches old town to craft beer
A three-day event on the mid-street of Henglong Plaza drew hundreds of thousands of visits. It showed that Lixia’s dual core can be joined, at least for a weekend — if the beer list is set down next to the springs.
Ke Lin · 12 September 2026
NewsQilu’s Sino-German beer centre: a city’s school of brewing
Mash tuns and a yeast laboratory sit inside a university, making Jinan one of the few Chinese cities with a complete higher-education chain in beer.
Mai Zhao · 11 September 2026
- News Feature
Can spring water become a geographical indication for brewing?
The low mineralization of the Baotu Spring cluster is close to the Plzeň aquifer. Whether the law protects the water, or the story, will decide how the next round of labels is written.
Jiashu Shen · 10 September 2026
EditorialTreat the beerhouse as an urban sensor
Licences list a few dozen “bars”. The street has hundreds of beerhouses. Science should count the latter.
The Editors · 16 September 2026
Books & ArtsBooks: a new gazetteer that writes malt into North China archaeology
When amylase and yeast enolase appear on the inner wall of a Longshan vessel, beer history no longer has to start at the Tsingtao brewery gate.
Shuchi Liang · 9 September 2026