the birthplace of beer culture?????

qingdao (tsingtao to most of us) exported a product so hallowed, so coveted,so treasured that the factory of said product has been in chinese hands, then japanese during the war, and then communist chinese hands.in fact, this product accounted for 98% of all chinese exports duringthe early communist years. BEER BEER BEER!!!!!!! Sweet, delicious,invented by sumerians, then to Babylonians, then to egyptians, to greeks,skipping over romans (who only drank wine and thought beer barbaric)then on to western europeans and americans the now guardians ofits sacred evolution in yumminess. say it with me, "i love beer".feels good to love something doesn't it. well, beer loves you right back buddy. the qingdao beer factory tour is lame but you get free beer (anti-lame). you do learn a lot about making beer in 19th c.china (if that piques your interest). the best thing about the breweryis that it's on beer st which, no surprise, has lots of beer.
but, the bestest of best things about qingdao is their preferred mode of imbibing....get this....beer in a bag!!!! dude, best idea ever.so, take a plastic grocery bag and fill it with beer from a keg until it's the desired weight and sell. buyer pays 80 cents for about 1-1.25 liters of beer....80 cents for a liter of beer straight from the brewery...yes, this is beer heaven on beer st in the self proclaimed birthplace of beer cultgure. how does one drink beer out of a grocery bag you ask?yes, this is a stumper. I couldn't figure it out as well dear reader.but, the chinese are so smart, they just poke a straw into the bag and you squeeze the bottom and suck the beer through your straw. works for me! down side to beer in a bag is it gets heavy after a while if you don't drink it fast. also in 90 degree weather with 80% humidity,it gets flat and skanky if you don't suck it down so suck it down amigo.i'm bringing this idea back to the states. I think beer in a bag has a home in the good ol USA.