Time to talk about my favorite subject of all times: beer. Here we have a motorized beer transporting tricycle, seen in June 2011 at a late night market in Beijing. The tricycle was loaded with crates of delicious Tsingtao Dayou (青岛 大优) beer. As you can see, the brand and the type of the beer were printed on the back side of the vehicle. Distribution at its best!
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Snow Beer On A Hafei Zhongyi Flatbed Truck In China
Here we have a Hafei Zhongyi pickup truck, seen in the ultra far east of Beijing in January 2015. The truck was loaded with 24-bottle crates of Snow beer, making any man extremely thirsty.
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Beer On A Tricycle! No. 2
More beer! A Beijing-branded tricycle carrying empty bottles of Yanjing beer, standing in front of a neighborhood beer distribution point. The blue crates behind the trike are filled with new bottles of delicious Yanjing beer. The green crates are for Tsingtao beer, but they, too, are filled with Yanjing bottles.
I saw this tricycle in the hutongs of central Beijing when Yanjing beer bottles still contained 0.645 liters of easy drinkable beer with an alcohol percentage of 3.6%. In my good old days, I drank a truck of the stuff each week. Sadly, most Chinese beer makers have since changed their bottle size to the internationally more acceptable 0.5 liter.
Back then, many people in China still preferred to drink their beer at room temperature instead of being cooled. So at distribution points, beer was mostly kept uncooled and out in the open. Cheers!
Beer! A Dongfeng Beer Truck In China
Here we have a big Dongfeng beer truck, in the correct worker’s blue, loaded with about a hundred crates of delicious Yanjing beer, standing in front of a restaurant in central Beijing.
I saw the truck in 2007, when Yanjing beer bottles still contained 0.645 liters of easily drinkable beer with an alcohol percentage of 3.6%. In my good old days, I drank a truck of the stuff each week. Sadly, most Chinese beer makers have since changed their bottle size to the internationally more acceptable 0.5 liter.
The Dongfeng truck was already an oldie in 2007, and it was clearly not having an easy day with its heavy load of booze! I love the frames on the sides, with reflective 3M tape, intended to prevent bicyclists from ending up underneath. Cheers, old Dongfeng beer truck, hope you are still around somewhere.