# Man filmed peeing into beer tank **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [October 23, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953 "2023-10-23T12:41:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/1 "2023-10-23T12:41:29Z")
A man was filmed urinating into a tank of Tsingtao. No information on who the man was or who was filming. One-time weirdness or a way to tank the company’s image or stocks? Anyone on the Dope drink it? > **[Tsingtao: Video shows Chinese beer worker urinating into tank](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67191242)** > > Tsingtao has alerted Chinese police after a video shows a worker urinating into a tank. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/2 "2023-10-23T12:57:44Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Anyone on the Dope drink it? This feels just a little bit like one of those [**unclear antecedent**](https://www.bkacontent.com/gs-how-to-fix-an-unclear-antecedent) moments 😉 I’ve always loved Tsingtao, but it’s been years since I’ve had one. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/3 "2023-10-23T13:01:28Z")
> [@DavidNRockies](#): > > This feels just a little bit like one of those [**unclear antecedent**](https://www.bkacontent.com/gs-how-to-fix-an-unclear-antecedent) moments Sorry, I’m not catching what you mean. Can you explain to a poor confused Rhombus? ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/4 "2023-10-23T13:04:21Z")
I feel like the two subjects before us are: 1. Tsingtao beer, and 2. Pee To the pedantic grammar nerd, the question: > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > Anyone on the Dope drink it? … could, technically, refer to either of the above options. Sure, I’m pretty confident that I know what was meant, but as I frequently tell my wife … when she says something with inherent ambiguity, history tells me that I’ll almost always get it wrong. Salud! [all in good fun … if that wasn’t entirely clear] ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/5 "2023-10-23T13:07:32Z")
Certainly not as considerate as the guy in the joke. Fell in the vat and took 2 hours to drown. Why, he had to get out 3 times to go to the bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/6 "2023-10-23T13:08:20Z")
Oh! I get you now! No, I specifically meant drinking the beer, of course. If you drink urine…well…you just keep that little peccadillo to yourself, please. Where’s that “I’m an idiot” smiley when I need it most? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/7 "2023-10-23T13:10:20Z")
Yet another interpretation is “Did anyone on the Dope drink some of the adulterated beer?” ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/8 "2023-10-23T13:12:33Z")
If it was Budweiser, we’d know that he was just helping fill up the tank. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/9 "2023-10-23T13:13:06Z")
[Insert “I always thought (X) beer tasted like pee anyway” joke here.] ETA: Curses, ninja’d by @flurb 😏 > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > > [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > > > Anyone on the Dope drink it? > > … could, technically, refer to either of the above options. I have not (knowingly, at least) ever drank pee, but I have had Tsintao. Years ago, putting myself through college, I worked in a large hotel that hosted conventions. They had a convention with Chinese people and everestimated how much Tsingtao they would need on hand. The hotel later had an auction of various items just for employees, one of which was a couple cases of Tsingtao, which I snagged for almost nothing. It tasted pretty nasty. Hopefully because it was very old and skunked, not because it had been peed into even back then. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/10 "2023-10-23T13:13:29Z")
Depending on how much you like this beer, this story could be added to the EVIL MFers thread as well. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/11 "2023-10-23T13:24:28Z")
Probably improved the flavor, to be honest. Tsingao, blech. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/12 "2023-10-23T13:28:12Z")
And I thought Coors was pisswater beer. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/13 "2023-10-23T13:31:32Z")
I figured ‘Tsing Tao’ is likely a Chinese term or phrase, so out of curiosity I ran it through Google translate, and it translates as “Chinese People”. Ewwwwwwwww. That is either uncomfortably on the nose or darkly humorous (or both). It’s the literal effluence of Chinese people. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/14 "2023-10-23T14:08:42Z")
Tsingtao is the Wade-Giles romanization of the name of the city the brewery was founded in (and continues to operate in). > **[Qingdao](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qingdao)** > > Qingdao (/tʃɪŋˈdaʊ/ ching-DOW, also spelled Tsingtao; Chinese: 青岛; pinyin: Qīngdǎo, Mandarin: \[tɕʰíŋtàʊ\] ⓘ) is a city in eastern Shandong Province. Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) that connects Asia with Europe. It has the highest GDP of any city in the province. Administered at the sub-provincial level, Qingdao has jurisdiction over seven districts and three county-level cities (Jiaozhou, Pingdu, Laixi). As of the 2020 Qin... ETA: all things considered, if I want a mediocre Asian export lager, I’ll ask for a Sapporo. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/15 "2023-10-23T14:10:50Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > And I thought Coors was pisswater beer. You know the ingredients they use to make Coors, right? 1. Bucket of regular beer, 2. Thirsty horse, 3. Empty bucket. I guess they didn’t have a horse at the Tsingtao brewery. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/16 "2023-10-23T17:39:38Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I figured ‘Tsing Tao’ is likely a Chinese term or phrase, so out of curiosity I ran it through Google translate, and it translates as “Chinese People”. Ewwwwwwwww. That is either uncomfortably on the nose or darkly humorous (or both). It’s the literal effluence of Chinese people. Soylent Green is _people!_ So’s _Tsingtao!_ > [@gnoitall](#): > > Tsingtao is the Wade-Giles romanization of the name of the city the brewery was founded in (and continues to operate in). > > > [@wiki](#): > > > > … Located on China’s Yellow Sea coast … The jokes just write themselves. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/17 "2023-10-25T04:14:56Z")
Tsing Tao was founded by German Brewers back in the day. The stuff that actually originates from the original location (Tsing Tao aka Qingdao) sources Laoshan spring water and is pretty good for a light rice adjunt lager. All other Tsing Tao breweries in China and the rest of the world suck because they don’t use the Laoshan spring water. Read the label before you drink. Video, if real, is from #3 factory, which I am guessing is _not_ from the original location of Qingdao. ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/18 "2023-10-25T04:18:47Z")
Sapporo is akin to Tsingtao. The stuff brewed in Japan is great (for a mass market lager that you will happily suck down many of). Check the label of what you get in N America, it’s either brewed in Canada or Wisconsin. Non-Japanese Sapporo is much sweeter and nasty vis-a-vis the original brewed in Sapporo, Hokkaido (site of the 1964 winter Olympics). Don’t confuse either beer with what is brewed in the original location. Apples to tastes like ass comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/19 "2023-10-25T05:12:16Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > One-time weirdness or… …secret ingredient? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2023, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953/20 "2023-10-25T14:16:36Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > …secret ingredient? “Ancient Chinese secret, eh?” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/1fBDaJi0TbI/hqdefault.jpg "Calgon - "Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh?" (Commercial, 1982)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fBDaJi0TbI&t=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/man-filmed-peeing-into-beer-tank/991953.md?page=2)