This is a link to the article http://www.newser.com/story/96096/pbr-in-china-44-a-bottle.html It's really interesting to think about how different beers in different cultures are advertised and prices are raised
There was a post about this a while ago. I wish I had more info but basically we discovered that it's not the same beer.
Well it is all malt and barrel aged, and an ale. I would love to try it and would easily pay $44 to do so.
I'm pretty sure that this was a one-off back in 2010. I traded for some and though it was pretty decent. The bottle and box were pretty awesome. It's a completely different beer than regular PBR.
They already shipped some of their former breweries to China - you can see some photos of S&P-owned (Pabst-Falstaff-General-Pearl) breweries' equipment in China at the bottom of this page on the Falstaff fan site (just above the "Texas breweries" logo) - some of it just sitting rotting in a field. Pretty sure much of the famous Pabst plant in Newark NJ (the giant beer bottle water tower once a notably landmark on the Garden State Parkway) was shipped to China when it was gutted in the 1980's. The bottle water tower stayed in the US but remains "in storage".
Being from Jersey myself, I'd passed that brewery often. I'm not a fan of the beer, however. The beer itself can go....
