Viral video at China's Tsingtao rocks venerable beer brand

Company apologizes to consumers for lax brewery oversight

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Tsingtao, China's second-largest beer by sales, is known worldwide. (Photo by Kohei Fujimura)

KOHEI FUJIMURA, Nikkei staff writer

DALIAN, China -- A viral video of a man appearing to urinate into ingredients at a Chinese brewery was first met with disbelief but has since provoked outrage over one of China's best-known beer brands.

In a video posted Oct. 19 and spread on China's Weibo social network, a man in blue work clothes enters a Tsingtao Brewery storage area and looks around several times before appearing to urinate into a malt vat.

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