Beer in China and sometimes rye in addition to barley. Some beer is produced that uses bitter melon instead of hops as the bittering agent. Chinese media reported in 2001 that as many as 95% of all Chinese beers contained formaldehyde, to prevent sedimentation in bottles and cans while in storage. This practice has now been made illegal. Snow Beer, produced by CR Snow is the best selling beer in China, holding 21.7% market share, having recently overtaken Tsingtao Beer, produced by Tsingtao Brewery, which is the brand most widely exported to other countries. Tsingtao Beer is brewed in the city of Qingdao
Beer Mixes the majority of the market, the non-alcoholic sector is also becoming increasingly significant which means that a growing number of alcohol-free beer mix products are also being launched on the market. The current leader of the German alcoholic beer mix market is still the MiXery brand with “MiXery Beer + Cola + X” followed by Krombacher Radler, Oettinger Radler, Beck’s Green Lemon, Schöfferhofer Grapefruit and MiXery Nastrov Flavour iced blue. Krombacher is the non-alcoholic beer mix leader. Descending according to turnover. Beer Mixes A beer mix usually refers to a beer-based drink which also includes one or more other taste