Foam Palace

Reflecting how China's craft-brew industry has matured, pioneering Slow Boat puts an impressive new face forward with its big new brewpub in Beijing, Mike Peters discovers.

I've got my face stuck in a Mushroom Brown. It's a dark and rich fungal ale, one of eight seasonal beers now emerging from the fermentation tanks at Slow Boat Brewery's new flagship pub.

But while I'm savoring the dark, rich fungal ale at the beery new operation in Beijing's Sanlitun area, the buzz online seems to be about ... the burgers?