CRAFT BEER MAKERS DESCEND ON BEIJING

Festival offers chance to test and taste the best

Discerning beer drinkers, get ready for the big fizz. The Beijing Invitational Craft Beer Festival will be held at TRB Copper by Great Leap Brewing in Beijing from Mar 23 to 25. This is the fourth edition of an event the organizers say is the first of its kind in Beijing featuring international breweries that brings in beer fresh, a lot of it unavailable otherwise in China.

"We want to expand the craft beer experience beyond the gray market and the suitcase beers that are creeping their way into China," says the event organizer, Carl Setzer, founder and brewmaster of Great Leap Brewing.