The Qingdao International Beer Festival () is a yearly festival held in

Qingdao Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...

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. The event is jointly sponsored by national state ministries and the Qingdao Municipal Government.

History

First held in 1991 to celebrate the town's hundredth anniversary, festivals feature artistic parades, "Beer Carnival" games, beer tasting, drinking contests, music, food, interactive performances, various brewery beer tents, trade exhibitions, gala performances, carnival amusement park games and rides, and even bikini model contests. Every year, the festival starts at the second weekend of August and lasts for 16 days.

Highlights

The festival is held at multiple locations throughout the city. In 2015, a 66.6-hectare site was constructed containing beer tents and stalls selling

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, bratwurst and beer in plastic carrier bags (a festival tradition) as well as Bavarian band music, mass drinking competitions, Peking opera performances and karaoke.

References

External links

Tsingtao Beer web site for USTsingdao Brewery main website
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