Buying beer in a plastic bag is Qingdao's everyday romance.
Qingdao summers taste of beer, sea wind and barbecue.
In summer, Qingdao's beer houses are packed. Locals bring plastic bags and fill them straight from the brewery tap, foam rising, and sip through a straw. This is a way of life unique to Qingdao.
Tsingtao beer is brewed with Laoshan spring water, crisp and clean. In the evening, find a spot by Zhanqiao Pier, sit in the sea wind with a beer, watch the gulls fly and the sun turn the water gold — happiness in Qingdao is that simple.
During the beer festival the whole city goes wild. Tents rise in the square, bands play, people clink big mugs of beer. Qingdao people say, it is not that we can drink — it is that we are happy. Sea wind and beer are the city's romantic genes.
