🇨🇳How does China mark Beer Festivals?

青岛国际啤酒节

Local date

July 16, 2027–August 14, 2027

When is it?

About thirty consecutive days from the third Friday in July, announced each year by the Qingdao municipal government.

China's version is not in October. The thirty-sixth Qingdao International Beer Festival ran from 17 July to 15 August 2026, thirty days, hosted by the Qingdao municipal government with the West Coast New Area administrative committee and the Laoshan, Shinan and Shibei district governments as co-organisers — the whole co-organiser list is administrative bodies. The theme is "Qingdao toasts the world"; there are three sites (West Coast, Laoshan and the old city), all three keeping free entry, and more than 2,300 Chinese and foreign brands. The origin is colonial: on 15 August 1903, German and British merchants of the Hong Kong Anglo-German Brewery Company (mostly Germans) financed the Germania Brewery Qingdao Co. on Captain Müller Street, now 56 Dengzhou Road, with a designed capacity of 2,000 tonnes a year — the first brewery in China and the only one from that era still operating. On 25 May 2006 the State Council listed the "early buildings of the Tsingtao Brewery" among the sixth batch of Major Historical and Cultural Sites Protected at the National Level.