Why Breaking Into the Chinese Beer Market Is Almost Impossible | WSJ 

I can’t imagine a corona if they even have it

Enormously taxed.

TRASH JUICE

You should try buying a beer in canada lol A typical bar is $5 a bottle and $8 a pint

u don't paid for the beer....

i reckon they are trying to get the view of a relatively successful non local beer brewers, it's all about foreign brands making inroads in Chinese beer market.

all these beer have hops?

At least they went there to interview. Some reports call in China experts who have been there twice lol.

Lies again? AMWF Car Higher Chinese

In Hong Kong, lol

CCP has representatives eeeeeeeeeverywhere

I tell you why, he's a journalist. Probably got his visa denied. It happens more often than you think.

Joseph Lo we don’t like commies

@@ThaOriginalGangsta77 Well then don't put "China" in the title....make it "Why Hong Kong Beer Companies Find It Almost Impossible to Break into China" or something....

If you talk about China's beer market, then also talk about FAKE and POISONOUS Beer as well. Even Fake Wines also run rampage in China that could kill you if you are not careful.

"Bad money drives out good" kind of competitive

You sure u didn't mean counterfeit

@@felixvikes28 Check your phone and keyboard before comment.

@@JohnnyHoO111 So the good has no money?

@@gofy9990 lol u make me laugh u comie POS everything you guys do a copy from The USA 😀

It's very similar here in Germany. But if some outsider comes in with a much cheaper pricepoint at least some people will change brands... So these american companies should try to make a decent product for a low price instead they're throwing millions in marketing at it to make Chinese customers buy their junk beer for a high price point...

@@xcofcd but local beer is so cheap the forgin brand is never going to beat

@@xcofcd and even the forginer some how managed beat the price point the local beer is always consider to be much fresher.

Not totally true.I’m from China.As long as the quality of products is good with nice price no matter where it is made from,it could be winner in Chinese consumers market.

@@xcofcd can you sell half a dollar for a bottle of beer? It's not so possible to cheap beer cheaper than the local one in China

candyapu3 this is what i came to the comments for lol

I mean what kind of vibe is he trying to give?

@@sirkeg1 no supreme was right lol

F**K it we'll do it live! r/whoosh

$150 a can now

Taxes

The video tells you, foreign beer is desired as it is projected to be of better quality. Americans are no different back in the old days as if it came from Germany, it must be good. We are luck for the rise of microbreweries. In my mind, America now has the best beers in the world

@@singloc3021 most American drink foreign beer, Corona, Heineken.......even Budweiser is no longer an American company.

Budweiser is owned by InBev and what I'm saying is back in the day, if it's foreign, it has to be good

What a silly question. Economics 101 says you charge the price that the market will bear. Case in point, Apple charges ridiculously high prices for inferior phones and gets by with it simply because people are stupid enough to pay the price. It is no big mystery.

You are right, but believe it or not, Mexico is the largest exporter of beer.

Blue ribbon is great I wish they sold it in Shanghai.

Not in HK you won't find any (where he is in the video).

In germany the cheap beer cans 0,5liter cost 29cent

Slovakia beer.

The Tsingtao that you get in Europe is made by Heineken and has no similarities to the original Chinese one

Too many visa, permits and strict monitor in China for journalist. Not to mention he could be on blocked list to enter China.

Only if the product in question is a status symbol. So cars, watches, sure. See is hardly a status symbol.

"Oh I would totally drink this after finishing a full ironman"

Stark Banner man you earn 7 times more than an avg Chinese

It's amazing to be honest. Not cheap but worth it. My favourites were ET brewery and Bionic brew. Have a look when you're there.

But the cheap local beers have hardly any alcohol and taste like water. While something like the IPA has 3 times the alcohol and 10 times the flavor. It's not about getting the job done, it's just something ingrained in the culture by time, and I'm sure will shift in the times ahead.

you must be one of those idiots who think HK is not part of China

Larry Liu Yes let's film a video about China in Taiwan while we're at it

@@LarryLiu77 Hong Kong is part of China, but it doesn't even remotely resemble chinese consumers habits. It's a SAR for a reason.

Gay idiot

And you quoted Chinese data and put it in hk context. Which is ridiculous. Perhaps it is true that a can of Tsingtao is priced 30 cents in China, but it is $1-2 in hk. Not a very big difference to compare with other brands. You run into a mainland Chinese and you made him a representative of hk, who is up for harbin beer. Why don’t you pick a random Italian in lkf then? He might as well support peroni! almost no hongkonger ever heard of Harbin beer or other Chinese beers, except for Tsingtao beer. However hongkongers are currently boycotting Tsingtao beer. It charges $10 or more to have a pint of beer at hk pubs, almost nobody would drink Chinese beers at pubs and almost no pub offers Chinese beers in hk. Seems that the world knows Hong Kong and China are different markets, except a list of bigot and arrogant us companies which are willing to sell out, e.g. Netflix, Apple, WSJ

I don't think you understand

@@arbit3r care to explain?

You're right. Americans hate that they don't get a cut of this gigantic market.

Ehhhhhh it's got like a .05% alcohol content. As a super light-weight, still made me light-headed after one can.

@@asdkotable pretty sure it doesn't. Might be a psychological reaction.

@@davidyang6074 you're probably right on the whole psychological effect, but I'm pretty sure that it has a miniscule 0.5% alcohol content. You can definitely argue that a fruit juice that has been left out too long probably has a higher alcohol content... But it is there. Or maybe it's the local version? Idk

@@asdkotable you're making me doubt myself. I know there's some materials used for brewing beer in this soda, but I remember checking the can and not seeing a mark for alcohol. You could be right that they might actually make different variations.

@@davidyang6074 I'm not a expert and could be wrong, but my guess because that's how it works here in Canada, but to MUCH lower degree, but so long as the beverage has under a certain percentage of alcohol, it can be labeled "non-alcoholic" even though theres a small amount, i imagine the laws see slightly more lax in china for obvious reasons haha, so its possible it does, but very little?