For most tourists, it takes about 1 hour - 2 hours to visit the Tsingtao Beer Museum. Of course, it cannot be ruled out that a small number of people will be faster or slower. Please arrange your time reasonably, especially for tourists who visit multiple attractions at the same time in one day.
The Tsingtao Beer Museum is located in the old factory building of Tsingtao Brewery a hundred years ago. The red bungalows are very interesting, and the roof on the road side is decorated with eye-catching oversized beer cans. Here you can learn about the history of Tsingtao Beer, see the old equipment for beer production, and taste pure Tsingtao Beer.
Entering the gate, you first see a square. In the center of the square is the Arabic numeral "100" statue, named "Ode to Centenary", which was erected on August 15, 2003 to welcome the centenary of Tsingtao Beer. To the west of "Centennial Ode" is a fountain composed of beer bottles and wine glass statues. There is also a statue of Bacchus in the square. The Tsingtao Beer Museum is divided into three tourist areas: Hall A: Dialogue with History - Centennial History and Culture Exhibition Area, Hall B: Encounter with Classics - Tsingtao Beer Brewing Technology, Hall C: Cheers to the World - Multifunctional Interaction Relaxation area. Just visit in the order of Hall A - Hall B - Hall C.
The pictures and texts in the historical and cultural area introduce that Tsingtao Brewery was established by the Germans after they occupied Qingdao, then purchased by Japan, and finally returned to the hands of the Chinese to create a glorious history.
Among the objects on display that are worth seeing are: the Tsingtao Beer trademark registered with the lighthouse in 1948 after the brewery returned to China; the looping Tsingtao Beer advertisement shot in 1947, which is China's earliest film advertising.
The brewing process area introduces the beer production process and displays the raw materials and old equipment used in beer production. To put it simply, the beer manufacturing process is to saccharify malt and other raw materials at high temperatures to make wort, then ferment, filter, and finally package. Here you can see various malts as the main raw materials for making beer, hops as auxiliary raw materials, saccharification workshops, fermentation tanks and large wooden barrels for fermentation, and packaging lines that put beer into bottles or cans. Among them, the saccharification kettle made of red copper in the saccharification workshop and the earliest existing Siemens motor in the world are the "treasures of the museum". The motor is from 1896 and still runs when powered.
The multi-functional area we arrived at last has some entertainment projects, including games for riding bicycles and interacting with 3D images. The Drunk Cabin is very interesting. It is designed using human visual illusions. In addition, the floor inside is slanted. After entering, you really feel like you are unsteady and dizzy after being drunk. There is also a Tsingtao Beer Bar and souvenir shop selling beer-related products.
For every visitor who purchases a ticket, the museum will give away a cup of pure beer, a pack of beer beans, and a cup of draft beer for free, which will be tasted in two times. The free ticket group does not have such treatment. After visiting the fermentation tank in the brewing process area for the first time, you can get pure beer and beer beans at the midway bar. Pure beer is unfiltered beer with a lot of foam and rich flavor. Tourists who have tasted it are full of praise. Its shelf life is only 24 hours, so it is not available outside. Beer beans are just peanuts, but they are also "secretly made" by Tsingtao Brewery. They are very delicious, but don't eat them all at once, save some for drinking draft beer. The second time, after all the sightseeing, I went to the Tsingtao Beer Bar in the multifunctional area and could get draft beer. Some people like to drink beer and some don't. Beer beans are suitable for all ages. They are delicious and a specialty. You can buy some at the souvenir shop.
In front of the Tsingtao Beer Museum is the famous Dengzhou Road Beer Street, which is full of seafood stalls and bars under the banner of Tsingtao Beer. To the west of Beer Street is Tianmu City, an indoor shopping and dining street; to the east is Taitung Pedestrian Street, with many small shopping shops and various types of restaurants, including seafood. If you are a foodie and have difficulty choosing, I suggest you go to Dengzhou Road, where you can eat with "atmosphere". Imagine what it would be like to eat seafood and drink fresh beer from the factory that day under the neon lights at night. You can also do what the locals do and pack beer in plastic bags to take back to your hotel to taste. There is also the Qingdao Wine Museum to the south of the museum, which can be visited together.