The echo of time | Tsingtao Beer, the golden yellow memory warm pulse

At the end of the year, a publication and the Green Beer Group jointly held an essay contest with the theme of "My Green Beer Memory". Reading the essay notice evoked some warm memories of green beer. Therefore, Bencao applied for a small article. Since the number of words is limited to one thousand words, although the small text is adopted, there is still some sense of inexhaustibility, and it is necessary to say something more.

One

Although I am not a good drinker, it is still common to drink a little wine. Perhaps because of the "lighter of the two evils", of all the alcohol categories, I prefer beer. Among the various beers, I also particularly like Tsingtao Beer.

My association with green beer stemmed from an unsatisfactory but tender drinking experience. In the winter of 1976, I ended my cut-out and was recruited to a small shipyard on the shores of Laizhou Bay. The two Qingdao Zhiqing who got along well with me were very enthusiastic to take leave to accompany me to the factory to report. When I arrived at the factory station, I realized that it was so remote and so small, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of dazedness and desolation in my heart. The two companions seemed to see my thoughts, and persuaded me that it was always a good thing to recruit workers, and it was worth celebrating. After reporting in, they had to invite me to dinner and forced me to the only state-run restaurant in town. When ordering wine, the two guys were pleasantly surprised to find that there was Tsingtao beer in this small shop. I remember it was in that kind of brown vial, about three cents a bottle. Happy, they decided to drink beer at this meal.

When I was in middle school in Jinan, in the summer, I often saw some adults squatting on the side of the road with bare arms, holding large porcelain bowls, and drinking the kind of loose beer with two cents and a bowl of brown and yellow color, which was very curious. Helplessly, the family was very strictly controlled, and even more shy, I had not been able to have the opportunity to taste the thing to see what it was like. As soon as I graduated from high school, I went to the countryside to join the team. After going to the countryside, I only occasionally joined in with the villagers to drink a few sips of liquor. The folks were not interested in beer, and a few who had tasted it agreed that it smelled of horse urine.

I don't know much about this stuff, and because of the price, I'm not in favor of drinking beer. At that time, a bottle of white dry wine was only six or seven cents, and the price of two small bottles of beer was catching up with a bottle of liquor, and one bottle of liquor was enough for the two of us. Listen to them, the degree of beer is very low, drinking is almost like water, some people in Qingdao call beer "beer water", then how many bottles do we have to drink!

I couldn't stand them all the efforts, and besides, people were kind enough to pay for guests, so I had to obey the majority. When the wine is slowly poured into the glass, the golden pure body, the white and delicate foam, under the light, shines with a warm luster, which suddenly gives me a comfortable and warm feeling, although it is the middle of winter. After drinking the first glass of wine, a fragrance mixed with a slightly refreshing and bitter taste rose from the dantian, and there was also a faint sense of needle prick in the mouth. They looked at me fixedly, asked me expectantly how I felt, and I said it was okay. They were very happy and told me a lot about green beer. For example, German production technology, Australian hops, Canadian barley, Laoshan mineral water and so on. Maybe from that moment on, I started to be attracted to green beer.

Between the cups and cups, they urged me not to be discouraged, saying that as long as I worked well, I would still be able to return to the big city in the future when I had the opportunity to join the army and go to college, and sincerely welcomed me to work in Qingdao in the future. As a result, we frequently toasted to the beautiful expectations of being able to reunite in Qingdao and drink green beer in the future, and my mood slowly improved. Thanks to their auspicious words, in 1978, I was really admitted to the university, and not long after graduation, I was transferred to the provincial government.

You toast me a glass I toast you, and it doesn't take long for ten bottles of wine to fall into the stomach. When we went to ask for wine again, the waiter said that green beer is a shortage of commodities, and the above is rationed, and there are ten bottles in the store, all of which are drunk by us. Fortunately, the locals don't recognize beer, otherwise it would have been sold out long ago. We asked if there were any other brands of beer. The waiter replied that he had never heard of another brand of beer. It is no wonder that breweries have sprung up everywhere after the rain, which is after the reform and opening up.

Two

Some people think that green beer is more murderous and energetic, so they don't like green beer very much. As everyone knows, this is the unique feature of authentic green beer. At this point, I agree with a well-known professor in the province about green beer.

The status of green beer as a scarce commodity in my mind lasted until the late 1980s. Prior to this, there was very little supply of green beer on the market. Even qingdao citizens can only supply a few bottles with a ticket during the New Year's Festival. Therefore, at that time, green beer belonged to a rare gold and precious thing.

In the summer of 1986, our unit organized an academic seminar in Qingdao, at which I served. The conference invited some famous professors and scholars to participate, including a professor from a famous university in the province, who often participated in the activities organized by our unit, so he became acquainted with me. One day at dinner, his old gentleman mysteriously said to me, "Xiao Wang, after the evening is busy, you must come to my room." I asked him what was going on, and he kept it secret: "You'll know when you come." ”

By the time I finished my business and rushed to his room, it was already nine o'clock. He didn't lock the door, probably waiting for me. After I pushed the door in, I saw the old man lying on the bed with his legs crossed, holding a beer bottle in one hand and a book in the other. Seeing me come in, the old man hurriedly got out of bed and said to me apologetically: "You see, you see, I'm really sorry!" I see that you have been busy all day and have been working hard, and I would have liked you to drink a good drink of authentic green beer to treat you. They all complained that I didn't show up, and you didn't come at this moment, so you let me drink only one bottle! ”

It turned out that Mr. Lao had a student working in the Tsingtao Brewery. When he heard that the teacher had come, he sent him a box of outgoing green beer, twelve small bottles. The old man felt that it was very precious, so he invited me to share it. This old gentleman usually likes to drink beer, so he uses wine as tea while reading a book and waiting for me. Two hours of time, the box of beer was almost finished by him. While I was drinking the rest of the bottle of beer, the old man said to me that only the slightly bitter killing of green beer is the real taste of beer. Other brands of beer are sour and not slippery, and strictly speaking, they are not called beer. But green beer is also too rare, and you can't drink authentic green beer at a meeting in Qingdao. When I saw the students sending it, I naturally couldn't help but be a little happy, and I couldn't hold it when I drank it.

In addition, there is another thing related to green beer that is also quite interesting. That year, I went with the group to Western Europe for training. When I was in Vienna, Austria, one night, a companion had to pull me to experience the feeling of a tavern. His English level is so-so, unlike me, who can only jump on words. With him by our side, we can go out and deal with the language.

We came to a tavern near the station, and there were no guests inside, only a chubby lady, lying bored on the counter in a daze. We said to the hostess in blunt English that we were going to drink "Bill (beer)". The hostess saw the guests, immediately came to the spirit, very enthusiastic to speak the same blunt English, recommended us several "Biel", such as Munich, Frankfurt, Vienna, and so on. Let's say, just drink "Vienna Bill", in Vienna, drink "Vienna Bill" to taste! "Who doesn't say that my hometown is good", our words fooled the lady boss a little bit out of the north, she grinned and laughed heartily. Happily, one of them gave us an extra bottle of "Vienna Bill" and said that she knew that there were "Qingdao Bills" in China, and "Qingdao Bills" were also "Crooked Errui (very good)". Listening to the words of the hostess, we were equally excited, so we invited her to toast "Vienna Bill" and "Qingdao Bill" together, and made her laugh again.

Three

Today, the days of green beer as a scarce commodity have become a memory, if you think of beer with a green beer brand as a green beer. Since the 1990s, the Green Beer Group has been mowing grass, or rather, winding up the wind, to acquire and annex breweries everywhere. More than half of the large and small breweries in Shandong changed their doors in unison and turned to the "Weihu Mountain", and the situation of green beer everywhere appeared.

The fly in the ointment is that the products of these merged breweries, although they are labeled with green beer and even produced according to the process of green beer, their inherent deficiencies in raw materials and water quality are still difficult to make up in a short period of time. Therefore, the taste of this green beer is not the thing of the other green beer, it still happens frequently. Green beer seems to have a shortage in another sense.

There was a small brewery that I was familiar with, which was transformed in the tide of mergers and acquisitions, and became one of the many descendants of the Green Beer Group. The original XX brand beer produced by this factory, although advertising is crazy, but local consumers do not buy it, jokingly calling it "a bottle pour". It means that drinking this beer is not much, a bottle is quasi-drunk. There is also a widely circulated joke about this nickname in the local area. It was said that the police caught the thief, and during interrogation, they would ask him if he would like to drink beer or be battered. The thief said, of course, that it was a beer. So the police took out the beer that was called "one bottle pour". The thief saw the situation and quickly changed his mouth, then you still simply give me an electric baton. Again, this is a joke, which is not true, and there is no innuendo to accuse the police of torturing prisoners.

Green beer has left me with a lot of warm memories, so I miss the original green beer. I also hope that those brands that have been merged by green beer will not put on the trademark of green beer and everything will be fine. Even if it is difficult to be exactly the same as authentic green beer, at least it must be eight or nine. In this regard, the responsibility of green beer is even greater. People like nostalgia because there are some good things in the past that are worth remembering. If people are obsessed with a certain product or a certain brand in the past, it can only prove that their kind is now lackluster. It is not only a means to occupy the market, it should be the breadth and extension of brand culture. For example, "one bottle pour" is reborn through mergers, and the people there can proudly say, "Let the 'bottle pour' go to hell, and their hometowns will also produce authentic green beers", what a good thing. If it is just a new bottle of old wine, even if the brand is fancy, it is in vain and will not help.

Some regrets, after coming to the provincial city to work, after going to Qingdao for business trips, I have inquired many times about the whereabouts of the two guys who encouraged me and made me fall in love with green beer, and look forward to drinking green beer with them and talking about old friendships to make up for the regret of not being able to get by that time, but I have not been able to do so.

In recent years, the unit has organized a physical examination every year, and some of my indicators are high, and the doctor urged me to quit drinking, especially to say goodbye to beer and liquor. Liquor doesn't matter, I don't stick to this thing at all. But for beer, especially green beer, I really have a hard time saying goodbye. Notice that I'm talking about real green beer.

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