Everyone here has had or at least recognizes those iconic large green bottles of Tsingtao beer, right? They’re everywhere in China.
这里的每个人都喝过或至少认识这些标志性的绿色大瓶青岛啤酒，对吗？它们在中国随处可见。
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But how many of you know the history behind Tsingtao?
但你们又有多少人知道青岛啤酒背后的故事呢？
For starters – it was first brewed by homesick Germans in the port city of Qingdao in Shandong province. Tsingtao is the old written form of the Wade-Giles romanization system, used before pinyin become a thing.
起初，它是由在山东省港口城市青岛思念家乡的德国人酿制的。Tsingtao是韦氏拼音罗马系统的手写形式，这是现代拼音之前的版本。
The Germania-Brauerei company was established in 1903. Brewmaster R. Schuster combined traditional German brewing techniques with fresh spring water from nearby Laoshan to create an authentic German-style pilsener beer.
青岛啤酒公司创建于1903年。酿酒大师R. Schuster将传统德国酿造工艺和崂山的新鲜泉水结合，创造出真正的德国风味的比尔森啤酒。
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The first beer was ready in late 1904 and business took off. The good times only lasted a decade though. The Japanese army invaded Northeast China in 1914 and by 1916 Germania-Brauerei company was liquidated and sold to the Japanese Dai-Nippon brewery. Dai-Nippon later split into the Sapporo and Asahi breweries, both of which are still popular breweries in Japan to this day.
第一批啤酒在1904年末期才开始热销。虽然好景不长，持续了十年。1914年日本军队入侵中国东南沿海，到1916年青岛啤酒公司清盘并卖给了日本Dai-Nippon集团。Dai-Nippon随后分离出Sapporo和Asahi两个酿酒厂，并至今都还在日本盛行。
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When the Japanese surrended to the Allied powers at the end of WWII, the brewery was taken over by the Tsui family in the Nationalist government. This phase was also short-lived as the People’s Republic of China took control of the country (and the brewery) in 1949.
当日本在二战最后向结盟势力投降，酿酒厂被Tsui家族接管。这一阶段也不长久，持续到1949年中华人民共和国成立。
It remained a state-owned venture until the 1990s when economic reform helped turn the brewery into a corporation.
直到20世纪90年代青岛啤酒都还是国有企业，经济改革使这酿酒厂转变成一个公司。
Now, thanks to China’s huge population, Tsingtao is the world’s second best-selling beer with 2.6% of the world’s total beer market. What’s the best-selling beer?
现在多亏了中国大量的人口，青岛啤酒是世界第二畅销的啤酒，占到了世界啤酒市场的2.6%。那么谁是第一畅销的啤酒呢？
Snow.
雪花
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While Snow doesn’t have a large overseas presence, Tsingtao is available in Chinese restaurants and beer stores in over 70 countries.
雪花在海外没有多少份额，青岛啤酒在中国和超过70个国家的啤酒铺都有售。
However, there are some Tsingtao varieties that we’ve only seen in China. Incidentally, they’re our top two favourite kinds of Tsingtao.
然而，有一些青岛啤酒的种类我们只能在中国才能看得到。顺便说一句，下面这俩是最受欢迎的两种青岛啤酒。
Tsingtao White Beer – a crisp and refreshing wheat beer…
青岛白啤——鲜爽口感的大麦啤酒
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…and Tsingtao Gold Label – a crisper, more flavourful, and slightly more boozy take.
青岛金标——爽口、风味更佳、更让人想畅饮的啤酒。
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If you’d like to learn more about Tsingtao and have fun while you’re at it, we can’t recommend enough the Tsingtao Beer Museum Tour in, you guessed it, Qingdao.
如果你想在喝青岛啤酒时了解关于它的更多信息，我们强烈推荐在青岛的青岛啤酒博物馆。
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After a fun tour, with free beer samples, you’ll be ready for a giant seafood feast. Something that the coastal town of Qingdao is reknowned for. Make sure to wash it down with a bag of Tsingtao Beer!
在愉快的参观后有免费的啤酒样品，我想你已经做好吃一顿海鲜盛宴的准备了！沿海城市青岛举世闻名的就是海鲜哦，同时别忘了还有青岛啤酒！
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Thanks to the proximity of the brewery, many places in Qingdao offer unpasteurized bags of fresh beer to-go. You can sip on your brew-in-a-bag and take a stroll over to the Huilan pavilion, the blue and white logo featured on Tsingtao’s label!
由于距离啤酒厂很近，青岛很多地方都提供未经高温消毒的袋装新鲜啤酒外带。你可以呷一口啤酒，漫步到惠兰亭，青岛啤酒的商标上印着蓝白相间的徽标！
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Cheers!
干杯！
How awesome is that?
想想就觉得很棒！
Have any of our readers been on the tour? Let us know in the comments below!
你们有没有去过那里呢？在文末留下评论告诉我们吧！