Letters

Jun 5th 2003

From The Economist print edition

Brew that is true

SIR – Your description of Chinese beer as “cheap swill” is incorrect

(“Masks off, down the hatch”, May 17th). I lived in China for two years

and occasionally availed myself of the opportunity to sample local brews.

Their quality was entirely satisfactory, a view shared—on an almost

daily basis—by German and French colleagues. I am disturbed by the

thought that the excellent and pleasingly priced Chinese beers might be

replaced by overpriced maiden's water supplied by large western brewers.

Geoff Cockayne

Leeds