A brewery is a facility where beer is produced through the brewing process. The brewing process typically involves the fermentation of malted barley, hops, water, and yeast to create beer. Breweries can vary in size from small craft breweries to large industrial facilities.?
Generally, they are operated and owned by big corporations with famous beverage names in the market. The quality is assured but something happened in China that will shock you as it did the internet. Here's what we know.?
Tsingtao Brewery, based in China, is embroiled in a controversy after a now-viral video purportedly shows a worker at one of the company's factories peeing into a tank.?
According to the BBC, the video, which was released on the Chinese social media platform Weibo on Thursday, shows a man in a worker's uniform urinating in the tank.?
Tsingtao has not established whether the perpetrator was employed at the factory.According to a Chinese language business journal, neither the individual who urinated in the tank nor the one who filmed the video were "direct employees" of Tsingtao.
According to CNBC, Tsingtao issued a statement indicating that the batch of malt in the tank had been blocked off from usage and that the incident had been reported at the "first opportunity.""The company places a high value on media reports and immediately reported the matter to public security authorities."
The statement went on, "public security authorities are currently involved in the investigation."Of course, jokes abound on social media, with one user writing, "I've always said the beer here is like horse pee." According to the South China Morning Post, one person said, "Thanks, I think I'll have wine instead."
The situation was perfect for cheap chuckles, but not for beer sales.Tsingtao Brewery shares dipped dramatically when the Shanghai Stock Exchange opened on Monday, but recovered by the afternoon, according to CNBC.?
The video, which was posted online on Thursday, supposedly shows a man warehouse worker clambering into a high-walled container and emptying himself on its contents.?
The video went viral on Chinese social media, garnering tens of millions of views on the popular site Weibo.Tsingtao said on Friday that it had notified the police and that an inquiry was underway.
Hong Kong-traded Tsingtao is China's second-largest brewer, and its tall bottles of crisp beer are a staple in East Asian bars.?
In recent years, the company has diversified into craft ales and other goods in order to capitalize on the shifting interests of younger Chinese customers.?
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