Day 4 - Zhu Jiang Brewery Group Ltd

Our first visit of the day was to the Zhu Jiang Brewery.

Established in 1985, Guangzhou Zhujiang Brewery Group Ltd is a large state-owned enterprise which is deals mainly in beer and its relative products such as label, carton, crate, etc. It is now a RMB$5 million per year production. It currently has 9 production lines in all of Mainland China.

Much of the production line is automated, as such, not many staff needs to be in the production line. This is evident as Zhu Jiang Brewery currently only has 2,800 workers spread across its 9 production plants.

Production begins with the milling of the four main ingredients used for the brewing are:

Hop (啤酒花),

Malt (麦芽),

Barley (大麦) and,
Rice (大米),
This machine that fills up the beer bottles with beer can fill up to 48,000 freaking bottles of beer per hour, which will make up to approximately 350,000 bottles of beer per day. That's like 13 bottles per second!

At the end of the tour, we were reach given a complimentary beer, which didn't (naturally) taste as good as Carlsberg or the beer we usually drink in Singapore (though Tiger sucks as well).