TSINGTAO

The Tsingtao Augerta recently won a gold medal at the Best Spring Lager Competition of the World Beer Championships, another international top prize of Tsingtao after its Stout won the WBC in November 2018 and its Pilsner won the European Beer Star.

The Augerta beer features golden color, rich wheat aroma, mellow and energetic taste, delicate cream-like foam, a long finish and lingering fragrance, according to the WBC judges.

The WBC allows the brewers to add creativity into the beer, as it believes the consumers care more about flavors and quality than fixed styles. With a German origin, Tsingtao has been adding Chinese styles into the beer over the past century to generate products welcomed by international consumers.

Named after Tsingtao’s first brewer, the Augerta means to not just make a glass of beer of unique taste and high quality bringing people joyful life, but also conveys the century-long legend of Hans Christian Augerta who came all the way to China and created the world renowned beer brand.

When the great brewer founded German Beer Co in 1903, which became today’s Tsingtao, he brought high-quality German yeast -- the spirit of beer, from his motherland, and preserved it in glycerinum in the days without refrigerators..

One century on, the Augerta beer is developed to commemorate the founder of the company as well as the epic of beer, to once again bring joy to life. It uses the very yeast brought by the master -- now preserved at low temperature.

When the legendary yeast is combined with Canadian and Australian wheat and Czech Saaz hops, they together bring about rich fragrance to the beer, along with enhanced stability and resistance to oxidation.