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Chinese authorities are investigating after a viral video appeared to show a worker from Tsingtao urinating into a tank, believed to contain ingredients for its popular beer.

The clip has received tens of millions of views on social media.

The company said it alerted police immediately after the video came to its attention, adding that the batch of ingredients had been sealed.

Tsingtao is one of China's top beer producers and its biggest exporter.

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[–] TornadoRex@lemmy.world 84 points 11 months ago

Budweiser gonna sue them for stealing their recipe

[–] atempuser23@lemmy.world 53 points 11 months ago

Looks like someone found the secret to Coors light

[–] TedJ70@aussie.zone 43 points 11 months ago

Spread the rumour it's schoolgirl urine, change the name to Pi-Tsingtao and export to Japan. Problem solved.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago

They were just copying the American recipe.

[–] ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Might improve it honestly...

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

I see China watches Bear Grylls.

[–] miseducator@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Reminds me of this video where a shirtless Chinese fella is wading in a giant pool of kimchi. The video led to a Korean boycott of Chinese kimchi, which is commonly served in greasy spoons across Korea.

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I'm left to wonder is that was before or after any cleaning process. If it's before.... it's not a great look but not all that bad. This stuff comes from farms where it's got to be cleaned before use anyway because of dirt, pesticides, etc.

If it's after "cleaning" then I think this reaction is sufficient. 🤢🤮

[–] sepen77@sh.itjust.works 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

New trolley problem just dropped: would you drink free beer disposed of by the brewery, knowing there is a non-zero chance it contains a tiny amount of piss?

[–] XTornado@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I wouldn't because I do not need to LMAO... But diluted enough... it's like it isn't there.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

As long as he didn't have a bladder infection. Otherwise it might ferment a little differently.

[–] hersh 2 points 11 months ago

The city of Portland disagrees! Back in 2014, they dumped 38 million gallons of water from a reservoir because one stupid drunk peed in it. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-27069611

On Wednesday, Mr Shaff said while animal waste often found its way into the reservoir without any public health risk, there was "at least a perceived difference from my perspective" on human waste.

"I could be wrong on that, but the reality is our customers don't anticipate drinking water that's been contaminated by some yahoo who decided to pee into a reservoir," he said.

[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 15 points 11 months ago

That is the secret ingredient.

[–] pensa@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I'm currently in Thailand and saw a couple of arrogant Chinese get ruthlessly beaten by street justice. They had been talking shit about everyone all night and then started being physical. It took seconds for there to be dozens of Thai people beating them worse than I have ever seen someone beaten. It was really bad. I'd be surprised if they lived. By the time the police came both Chinese were completely unconscious on the ground with blood everywhere. Nobody was taken into custody other than the Chinese guys.

When talking with people after it happened they mostly agreed that Chinese people have been the problem causers more than other tourists. There seems to have been a major shift in Chinese culture over the past few years and most of them seem to have a massive superiority complex.

I used to think it was the CCP that made China a bad place but it seems it's the people as well.

[–] vivadanang@lemm.ee 25 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thailand is dealing with shit-tons of expat russians hiding out for the war to end. Now the fuckwits are trying to set up russian businesses in thailand like white-russian-only nail salons and white-russian-only taxis. I hope the Thais take everything they have.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/9/6/russian-only-businesses-in-thailands-phuket-spark-backlash

[–] Niello@kbin.social 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's because the incompetent PM made the visa free for mainland Chinese. It's going to get a lot worse in Thailand.

The culture is the problem and the CCP insistent on keeping outdated traditions and social values keeps them in the past. China cultural values went to shit ever since the cultural revolution and the government has done nothing to better it, only doubling down and adding more problematic beliefs. There were needs to be selfish and to deceive for survival, but with the kind of government the CCP is instead of that slowly going away after the worst is over you have that continue to be ingrain into future generations to the point it becomes an identity. Then add the contemporary dose of propaganda and the sudden increase in progress and you have the superiority complex.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 11 months ago

I'd like to point out a couple things:

  • You took an article about one Chinese dude being an asshole and took a massive detour to tell your story in which:
  • You saw two Chinese people acting like assholes and proceeded to judge Chinese people in general for it

I'm not one to rush to play this "card", but that's literal racism.

I know you also factored in the reactions of the other people. (Not even going to go into what kind of person calmly watches two humans get brutally beaten maybe-to-death.) But imagine if this happened in the US. With our difficult history, let's say it was 2 black people. There's a certain kind of person who would hang around afterwards, spouting information about that race and their perception of them. Just some food for thought...

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Shit, just had one last Saturday in a Chinese buffet

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Fuck's sake. I ~~drink~~ drank that beer. My local supermarket stocks it.

That leaves me with the choice of APAs, chilled stout or Australian beer.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

So this is why it's always so good!

[–] Number1SummerJam@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That’s why it always gives me a headache

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 5 points 11 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Chinese authorities are investigating after a viral video appeared to show a worker from Tsingtao urinating into a tank, believed to contain ingredients for its popular beer.

In the clip which appeared online on Thursday, a worker, dressed in uniform with a helmet on, can be seen climbing over a high wall and into the container before urinating inside it.

The location tag of the clip reads "Tsingtao beer No.3 factory", local news outlet The Paper reported on Friday.

In a statement published on Friday, the bureau of market supervision and administration of Pingdu City, where the factory is located, said they immediately set up a team and conducted an on-site investigation after spotting the video, and sealed the whole batch of ingredients that appeared in the clip.

"A piss that will ruin a lot of money, this worker has done some real damage here," a top-liked comment on X-like platform Weibo reads.

Shares in Tsingtao Brewery fell sharply when the Shanghai Stock Exchange opened on Monday morning but were trading broadly flat by the afternoon.


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[–] TheLobotomist@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It tastes pretty good though tbh

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

This or Gates's poop water?

[–] 0Xero0@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

It's China, what did you expect? Dignity?

And if one China's biggest exporter is a brand that nobody heard of then you know it's shit. Heck, I live in Vietnam, and we import a lot of shit from China but this is the first I knew of its existence. I wouldn't be surprised if their beer is made with literal dog shit.

In case you didn't notice from the tone, we Vietnamese fucking hate China.

[–] Cyberjin@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah try to avoid food from China. There is a lot of fake food and drinks that isn't good for consumption.

Everyone scams in China

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[–] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The Tsingtao brand is sold in 62 countries and regions around the world,[13] and accounts for more than 50% of China's beer exports. According to the company's financial figures from 2010, Tsingtao saw a 6.6% year-on-year revenue increase from sales to Hong Kong and other overseas markets.

Hell, we have Tsingtao in some stores near me in the US, and I live in the South lol

[–] vidarh@lemmy.stad.social 3 points 11 months ago

I live in the UK and I don't drink beer because I generally, ironically, think beer overall tastes like piss, and yet I still know Tsingtao. It has fairly substantial market recognition in a lot of countries.