Unquenchable thirst for craft beer
China DailyVisitors to the 2019 8x8 Brewing Project’s Craft Beer Festival enjoy beer and have fun at the Langyuan Vintage creative art zone in Beijing, Oct 19, 2019. Each year, Acker and Li join three to five beer festivals around the world, showcasing overseas beer lovers what Chinese craft breweries have to offer through Jing A beers made with distinct Chinese culinary ingredients. "The starting point was how we create a festival where it's focused on collaboration between foreign breweries and Chinese breweries," Li said, noting, "Many international breweries are so fascinated with China." We call it a brewing project because it's really about the connection between Chinese and international breweries," Acker explained, hoping this project can help move craft beer forward. This year, the pair of breweries brought to the festival what they called Nu York Schisandra Berry Gose, a sour ale created using Thin Man brewery's special fermenting technique and the Chinese medicinal Schisandra berry from the Nujiang River valley as a key ingredient.