Why I had to leave Germany: - General Tiki

QVI Quiet Village Idiot Member Stockholm, Sweden Joined: Dec 13, 2007 Posts: 152	QVI Quiet Village Idiot Posted posted on Mon, May 12, 2008 11:52 PM On 2008-01-25 22:29, bigbrotiki wrote: What is the best Chinese import beer to get nowadays? In my opinion it's Tsingtao. And here is why: Tsing Tau was usurped as a German colony at the turn of the century. The Germans razed the Chinese huts and shacks and built a model town with water works, canalization, a hospital, a Chinese/German University, and....a brewery! And pretty much the same thing goes for Windhoek beer from Namibia (formerly German Southwest Africa). You can trust the Germans to go around building breweries wherever they go. Like the Dutch with their canals, the French with their bread and the Brits with their cricket! Very interesting to consider the connection between the German colonial presence in the Pacific and the primitive influence on modern art.

On 2008-01-25 22:29, bigbrotiki wrote:
What is the best Chinese import beer to get nowadays? In my opinion it's Tsingtao. And here is why: Tsing Tau was usurped as a German colony at the turn of the century. The Germans razed the Chinese huts and shacks and built a model town with water works, canalization, a hospital, a Chinese/German University, and....a brewery!

And pretty much the same thing goes for Windhoek beer from Namibia (formerly German Southwest Africa).

You can trust the Germans to go around building breweries wherever they go. Like the Dutch with their canals, the French with their bread and the Brits with their cricket!

Very interesting to consider the connection between the German colonial presence in the Pacific and the primitive influence on modern art.

Post #379919 by Quiet Village Idiot on Mon, May 12, 2008 11:52 PM