National Beer

In Germany, the total number of beer bars is several times more than the total number of restaurants, shops and hotels in Germany.

There are countless large and small beer houses, beer halls, beer halls, beer gardens, beer squares, beer villages and beer towns in every corner of the city and the countryside.

"Germany has more than 1,000 breweries and more than 5,000 types of beer. If we drink one beer every day, it will take 13 and a half years to drink it." Qin Dong said.

More than 5,000 kinds of beer?

Yi Jin was also secretly speechless.

While talking and laughing, a group of people came to a small restaurant, and their unique costumes quickly attracted Germans here.

As the largest city in Hessen, the Rhine and Main river areas around Frankfurt are the second largest industrial area in Germany. The population is dense and the economy is developed. Germans have a carefree daily life. On weekends, the family and friends are three generations of young and old. It is very common for twenty people to go out and eat together in a lively manner.

So, when the group of seven arrived at the restaurant, they couldn't get a spot because they didn't have a reservation!

"The restaurants there, you can eat whenever you want..." Qi Cheng told the truth. At this time, in China, it is not ordinary people who can enter the restaurant to spend, so it is seats waiting for people, not people waiting for seats.

"Should we find another family to see?" Zhu Yi suggested. At noon, he drank two bowls of Qin Dong's fried noodles. In the evening, he felt hungry. How could the appetite become bigger when he arrived in Germany? ?

"No need to look for it," Qin Dong pointed out that there is a small restaurant not far ahead. "Germans work 38 hours a week. Many factories work 8 and a half hours a day from Monday to Thursday, which also includes rest time. They usually only work four hours on Friday. So on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, they can toss as much as they want..."

For these three days, Friday and Saturday nights are the most. You can toss until two or three in the middle of the night, and sleep well the next day. Therefore, for carnival parties, shopping, and shopping, I choose these two nights.

"Hello, sir, are you from far away... China?" A foreign man wearing a small pair of glasses and a beard came up and looked at the group of Chinese with a smile.

"Yes," Xiaoqiu translated to everyone, and Qin Dong was already talking to the boss on the initiative, "If we have a seat, we can wait a while."

"Yes," the boss smiled, "Welcome to Frankfurt," he turned his head and pointed to the small restaurant. There were already customers changing tables and a small table was set aside for them. Qin Dong smiled and waved. The German family inside also responded with friendly smiles.

"Do you want to taste the beer here first?" The seven people sat down, and the Germans around them were looking at them. They were also looking at the yellow-haired and white-skinned Germans. Qin Dong asked Yi Jin.

"Yes." Yi Jin was seen unnaturally. The Germans seemed to dress casually. All of them dressed well and neatly.

"Xiao Qin, look, what kind of beer is there?" Zhu Yi looked unnatural in the middle of a group of Germans. His voice couldn't help lowering, but he couldn't understand German and could only ask Qin Dong.

In Germany, almost every city has its own beer. Beer can be divided into old beer, dark beer, pilsner beer, wheat beer, etc., depending on different brewing techniques.

"There are ice top beer, Pilsner beer, and many private beer workshops..."

"Xiao Qin, how do you know everything?" Translator Xiao Qiu finally couldn't help it. He was the translator in this group. Now Qin Dong almost wants to replace him. He is not as good as a young man who learns German. Germany knows well.

Of course not as good as Qin Dong. In his previous life, Qin Dong had actually lived here for two years.

"Xiao Qin, if I don't know your details, I really think you have been to Germany." Qi Cheng also smiled, "Look, what's the difference between the beer here and our beer?"

Everyone looked at Qin Dong. Although it was dinner, the inspection group's dinner was also work.

"Look, German beer is frothy. Even if the beer tap is dumped diagonally to the cup, the first round will be 70% foam and only 30% beer. Look at the cups here. Every beer cup has liquid. The bottom line mark that must be reached, a 0.3 liter beer, there are not three rounds, you are not satisfied..."

Oh, it really is.

Even knowing such details, Zhu Yi had to be convinced this time.

German cuisine is mainly sour and salty, with strong seasoning. Sour cabbage is covered with various sausages and ham. Qin Dong ordered pork chops and pea soup.

For fear that everyone will not be full, another basket of bread is placed on the blue grid tablecloth. The bread is very chewy and tastes good!

"Today we also had a meal of foreign meat." Wang Congjun felt that he finally had a full meal. Although the taste is not as good as Qinwan's seafood, it is also a major dish in foreign restaurants!

"I can also brag to the old lady when I go home," Chen Shifa also smiled. "Eating foreign sausages and drinking foreign beer. Come, let's have a toast together!" he suggested.

Everyone raised their cups. The golden liquid tasted different from the beer they often drank. "Xiao Qin, when did the Chinese drink beer for the first time?" Chen Shifa was very moved.

Invisibly, Qin Dong seemed to be the center of this group of seven people. Translation needed him, technology needed him, and life needed him. Now, even questions are asking him.

"Oh, the earliest record of Chinese people's exposure to beer was left by American William Hunter, who worked in Guangzhou, China to make a living. He mentioned in his memoirs that he had been with Chinese friends in the eleventh year of Daoguang Have a dinner together, there will be beer on the table for this meal..."

"After the meal, his Chinese friend gave a brief introduction to beer in a letter to his friend, saying that beer is a red liquid and foams..."

"The first Chinese who recorded the taste of beer was a late Qing Dynasty man named Zhang Deyi. He called beer "bier wine". The late Qing diplomat Guo Songtao also drank local beer during his mission to England in the early years of Guangxu. In his diary, he referred to beer as "Pi Ai"..."

Whether it is "Bi Er" or "Pi Ai", it is a transliteration of the word "beer", and the official name of the word beer is due to Qin Beer.

"Xiao Qin, where did you see this?" Qi Cheng was surprised, "Have you studied beer history? If that's the case, you can write industrial articles!"

Chen Shifa smiled, "I see, I dare not say anything else, but as long as you talk about beer, there is nothing Xiao Qin doesn't understand!"

The group was full of food and drink. Yi Jin handed over the money to Qin Dong and asked him to check out. When Qin Dong took out the Mark that he had paid back sporadically, Yi Jin suddenly found that Qin Dong had taken out a handkerchief. The one that wiped his sweat when I was in Nanjing.

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The minibus was speeding on the highway, and a group of people looked at the fields and high-rise buildings in Germany through the windows.

Today is the third day in Germany. According to the results of yesterday's discussions, they visited the German beer manufacturer Wolfos Beer Group today.

The headquarter of the group is located in a city in northern Germany, and the world-famous Volkswagen headquarters is also located in this city, where there are not only Volkswagen cars, but also Bundesliga champions.

"Xiao Qin, didn't you say that the Germans do not go to work on Saturday? We went, will someone receive us?" Zhu Yi did not sleep well last night, he leaned on his seat, watching the scenery outside the window slide by, and asked casually Tao.