Comments on: Friday Links: Uncle Chang, Great Leap Brewery, and Beijing Wins On The Road http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/friday-links-uncle-chang-great-leap-brewery-and-beijing-wins-on-the-road/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Kirby http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/friday-links-uncle-chang-great-leap-brewery-and-beijing-wins-on-the-road/#comment-2255 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:22:07 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=1687#comment-2255 Great Leap re-opened their store front last Saturday the 24th.

And yea, I am in any time you want to go. Bring Drake I want to see what kind of shit we get into.

One of the best arguments that I think you can make for Great Leap is that they make a quality product that was not being provided in this town. I also think that is why places like Homeplate do so well. A high quality product makes all of the difference. I rarely ever go to Nanluoguxiang, but I never used to go, and I have to admit one of the reasons I will now go or will not try to talk people out of going there is because of Great Leap. And I have to give them credit for that.

]]> By: The Tao http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/friday-links-uncle-chang-great-leap-brewery-and-beijing-wins-on-the-road/#comment-2133 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 18:34:34 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=1687#comment-2133 I dunno… USA Today had this story in July 2011. A year and change later, I’d think NBC’s heavyweight news show from Rockefeller Center would come up with more to say than LESS than what everyone else has said. Also, terrible timing. Isn’t Great Leap still closed?

If not… who wants to go drink there soon?

]]> By: John http://beijingcream.com/2012/03/friday-links-uncle-chang-great-leap-brewery-and-beijing-wins-on-the-road/#comment-2051 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:03:56 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=1687#comment-2051 re: “American Dream” – What about that isn’t the American Dream to those ‘mericans that have lived here a while? MSNBC is ahead of their time for calling it such. Opening a brewery and hosting a thriving community of parched beer lovers is already overdone in the US, but it was overdue here in Beijing. Some years ago there were only two or three places that produced their own beer, but they’ve since faded away (Topers, near the Boat) or have failed to produce anything that keeps folks coming back (Goose and Duck, Saddle Cantina, and probably others). Great Leap was one of the best things to ever happen to this city, but don’t take this laowai’s word for it. Great Leap, at its peak last summer, was host to many Chinese clients, including some very influential young stars like the host of MTV China, the guys who ran Section 6, Li Bingbing’s entourage of douche bags and bitches, and a lot of Chinese who studied/worked abroad and yearned for a taste of something more than the local swill and overdone foreign imports. American Dream, indeed.

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