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FRANCE. PUY-DE-DOME (63). CLERMOND-FERRAND. A GLASS OF THE LOCAL BEER DORIANE, BREWED IN AUVERGNE. Photo by Antoine Lorgnier/Only France/ABACAPRESS.COM

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KENYA-TEA HARVEST-PURPLE TEA

(240520) -- KENYA, May 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 14, 2024 shows the brewed purple tea at a tea shop in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyan purple tea is a unique tea tree variety, with purple leaves. Grown in the equatorial regions of Kenya's rolling hills, purple tea trees grow in an environment with abundant sunshine and proper temperature variations between day and night. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

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KENYA-TEA HARVEST-PURPLE TEA

(240520) -- KENYA, May 20, 2024 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on May 14, 2024 shows the brewed purple tea at a tea shop in Nairobi, Kenya. Kenyan purple tea is a unique tea tree variety, with purple leaves. Grown in the equatorial regions of Kenya's rolling hills, purple tea trees grow in an environment with abundant sunshine and proper temperature variations between day and night. (Xinhua/Han Xu)

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Foreign specialty crops thrive amid China's economic vitality

STORY: Foreign specialty crops thrive amid China's economic vitality SHOOTING TIME: File DATELINE: Nov. 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:23 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the planting areas of coffee, avocados and macadamia nuts 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): DENG JIALU, General manager, Yunnan Simao Beigui Coffee Co., Ltd. 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHAWA, Manager at an avocado planting base in Nanya Village, Menglian County STORYLINE: Coffee, avocados and macadamia nuts, originating from various parts of the world, have been widely grown in China's Yunnan, earning widespread acclaim in the global market. Pu'er City, famous for Pu'er tea, a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma, is making a name for itself as China's coffee capital. In 2022, the city's coffee planting area reached 679,000 mu (about 45,267 hectares), and the output value of the coffee industry exceeded 5 billion yuan (about 696 million USD). It has become a leading city within China in terms of both coffee production an

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Namibia hosts 63rd Windhoek Oktoberfest

STORY: Namibia hosts 63rd Windhoek Oktoberfest DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2023 LENGTH: 0:01:40 LOCATION: Windhoek CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the festival celebrations STORYLINE: The 63rd edition of the Windhoek Oktoberfest concluded on Saturday in the Namibian capital of Windhoek. The two-day event featured a diverse array of culinary delights and beverages, including the traditional Festbier, exclusively brewed for the Windhoek Oktoberfest. "The Windhoek Oktoberfest is an event that is meticulously designed and eagerly anticipated by festival enthusiasts. As the Windhoek festival continues to attract a growing international audience, our goal is to provide a world-class festival experience," said Nico Gericke, project manager of Namibia Breweries Limited, in a statement. The traditional German beer festival takes place annually at the end of October, where nostalgic people bring out their Bavarian costumes and celebrate German culture. Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Win

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CHINA-AFRICA-CROSS BORDER TRADE-COFFEE

(230720) -- ADDIS ABABA, July 20, 2023 (Xinhua) -- This photo taken on July 1, 2023 shows brewed coffee ready to be tasted at Mullege Public Limited Company, a family-owned Ethiopian business engaged in coffee processing and export, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. China has held the position of Africa's largest trading partner for 14 consecutive years. Along the way, China and Africa collaboratively advance the development under the Belt and Road Initiative, opening up new avenues for cooperation. African coffee, known for its high quality, has made its way into the lives of Chinese consumers. In 2022, the Gaoqiao Grand Market in central China's Hunan Province achieved a coffee sales volume of 1 billion yuan, selling a total of 2,000 tonnes of coffee beans, with African coffee beans accounting for 40 percent of the total. For an increasing number of African farmers and exporters, the booming Chinese market has become a boon. The emerging Chinese market holds the promise of higher and more stable income for Afri

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South Korean man promotes Pu'er tea in China's Yunnan

STORY: South Korean man promotes Pu'er tea in China's Yunnan DATELINE: May 20, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Kim Yong-wen drinking Pu'er tea 2. various of tea mountains in Yunnan 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): KIM YONG-WEN, Tea merchant from South Korea 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): KIM YONG-WEN, Tea merchant from South Korea 5. various of Kim Yong-wen and his employees making Pu'er tea 6. SOUNDBITE 3 (Chinese): KIM YONG-WEN, Tea merchant from South Korea STORYLINE: A South Korean man has been attracted by a much sought-after tea in China's Yunnan Province and has settled here. Pu'er tea is a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma from Yunnan, a major tea production base in China. Kim Yong-wen settled down in the province in 2003 to learn Pu'er tea making skills, and launched a company in South Korea specializing in Pu'er tea. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): KIM YONG-WEN, Tea merchant from South Korea "When I arrived in Yunnan in 2003, I didn't want to go anywhere el

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Ambassadors or representatives to New Zealand taste Chinese tea before International Tea Day

STORY: Ambassadors or representatives to New Zealand taste Chinese tea before International Tea Day DATELINE: May 17, 2023 LENGTH: 00:02:43 LOCATION: Wellington CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event STORYLINE: Ambassadors or representatives of more than 30 countries to New Zealand and New Zealand Member of Parliament Naisi Chen gathered at the Chinese embassy in New Zealand and tasted Chinese tea. The event, dubbed Tea and the World, was held to enhance cultural exchanges between China and other countries. The participants enjoyed the Chinese Gansu canned tea brewed by a Chinese tea artist from Gansu Province, northwest China, and appreciated the display of Chinese tea culture with great interest, experiencing the profoundness of Chinese tea culture. China is the hometown of tea but now tea belongs to the whole world, Chinese Ambassador to New Zealand Wang Xiaolong told the audience. In 2019, the United Nations designated May 21 each year as International Tea Day to promote tea production

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Young volunteer strives to promote high-quality coffee from SW. China's Yunnan

STORY: Young volunteer strives to promote high-quality coffee from SW. China's Yunnan DATELINE: April 19, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:40 LOCATION: PU'ER, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the coffee plantation in Yunnan 2. various of the coffee estate 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIN WENZHE, Coffee volunteer 4. various of the coffee estate 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YANG HONGJIAN, Founder of Yeyatang valley coffee estate STORYLINE: Famous for Pu'er tea, a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma, Pu'er City in southwest China's Yunnan Province is making a name for itself as China's coffee capital. As one of the must-visit destinations for coffee lovers, a coffee estate in Pu'er has drawn many young volunteers from across the country. Lin Wenzhe from southeast China's Fuzhou is one of them. He runs a coffee shop back home but is working in Pu'er as a volunteer. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): LIN WENZHE, Coffee volunteer "I think it's quite meaningful. As a city resident, I'd rarely been to the countryside before. So

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Quake-hit Kobe firm's sake brewed in 1995

KOBE, Japan - Japanese brewery Sawanotsuru Co.'s Hideki Makino (L) and Hiroyuki Konno on Jan. 8, 2015, in Kobe, hold a bottle of old vintage sake brewed in 1995, the year when the Kobe-based sake company was severely damaged by the Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan. Reservations have already made for all 50 bottles.

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Various local beers shown in Noto, Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Various bottles and glasses of locally brewed beer are shown at the Okunoto Beer Japan Sea Club's restaurant in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, in this file photo taken on July 22, 2014.

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Czech works as brewmaster in Noto, Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Jiri Kotynek from the Czech Republic, home to the Pilsner Urquell brand of beer, holds a glass of locally brewed beer on July 22, 2014, at the Okunoto Beer Japan Sea Club in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, where he serves as a brewmaster. He makes the most of his technical prowess honed in his home country at the brewery run by a welfare facility in the central Japan prefecture facing the Sea of Japan.

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Beer house in Pyongyang

BEIJING, China - Photo shows seven flavors of locally brewed "Taedonggang Beer" at the Mansugyo Soft Drink Restaurant in Pyongyang in February 2013. The "standing-style" beer house has been gaining popularity in the North Korean capital, where customers drop by after work to enjoy draft beer straight from the brewery.

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Chocolates supporting disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A woman shows chocolates (L) made with six different types of Japanese sake brewed in Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and chocolates (R) made with honey produced in Sendai, the prefectural capital, at the Fujisaki department store in Sendai on Feb. 9, 2012.

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Oktoberfest in West Bank

TAYBEH, West Bank - A woman (L) drinks locally brewed beer in the largely Christian village of Taybeh on the West Bank during the Taybeh Oktoberfest beer festival on Oct. 1, 2011.

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Cedar tree decorations mark year's new sake brewing

OSAKA, Japan - Balls made from cedar trees hanging under the eaves of distillers and houses mark the brewing of this year's new sake in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture, after a ceremony to celebrate the first squeezing of sake from brewed rice this season on Nov. 25, 2010.

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Koshu wine showing signs of boom

KATSUNUMA, Japan - Yuzo Aruga, president of Katsunuma Winery Co., draws wine, which was brewed in 2004, from a casket for checks at a winery at Katsunuma Winery Co. in the town of Katsunuma, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 9.

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Japan hosts tea ceremony at U.N. as prayer for world peace

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's ceremonial tea master Sen Soshitsu (3rd from L) performs a traditional Japanese tea ceremony at the United Nations before 230 world dignitaries on Sept. 14 and offeres it as prayer for world peace. Sen, the 15th-generation grand master of the Urasenke school of the art of tea, offered the peace prayer by ceremoniously placing a bowl of freshly brewed Japanese tea on a peace monument at the U.N. delegates lounge.

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MIDEAST-JERUSALEM-"CONFUCIUS DAY" CHINESE CULTURAL FESTIVAL

(221205) -- JERUSALEM, Dec. 5, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Students look at freshly brewed Chinese tea during the "Confucius Day" Chinese cultural festival at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on Dec. 5, 2022. (Xinhua/Wang Zhuolun)

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Young entrepreneurs strive to promote southwestern China's coffee industry

STORY: Young entrepreneurs strive to promote southwestern China's coffee industry DATELINE: Nov. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:55 LOCATION: PU'ER, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of coffee industry in Pu'er, China 2. STANDUP (English): ZHENG BOFEI, Xinhua correspondent 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): YANG FAN, Manager of Yunjie Coffee 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YANG HONGJIAN, Manager of Astrospace Coffee STORYLINE: STANDUP (English): ZHENG BOFEI, Xinhua correspondent "Pu'er city in Yunnan Province has one of the earliest histories of planting coffee beans and best bean qualities in the world. It provides fertile land for young entrepreneurs to start their own coffee businesses, advancing from old methods used by their predecessors and bringing new ideas to the coffee plantation and processing industry." Famous for Pu'er tea, a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma, the city is now making a name for itself as China's coffee "capital". Coffee shops of various styles are rife in the city. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese)

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Xinhua Headlines: China's coffee industry booms amid opening up

(221026) -- KUNMING, Oct. 26, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Staff members test brewed coffee at a local coffee company in Pu'er of southwest China's Yunnan Province, on Feb. 22, 2022. (Xinhua/Chen Xinbo)

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China's booming coffee industry pursues high-quality development

STORY: China's booming coffee industry pursues high-quality development DATELINE: Oct. 26, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:46 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of coffee plantations 2. various of farmers 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): WANG WEI, Manager, Local international coffee trading center 4. various of coffee production lines 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): WANG RUIXING, Coffee shop owner 6. various of coffee shops STORYLINE: Famous for Pu'er tea, a deep-brewed tea with a sweet aroma, Pu'er City in southwest China's Yunnan Province is making a name for itself as China's coffee capital. Pu'er has 668,000 mu (around 44,530 hectares) of coffee plantation in 2021, producing the highest yield of coffee beans of 46,000 tonnes in China. This is thanks to the efforts of the local government to develop coffee planting and processing as a backbone industry. In 2019, Pu'er City launched a pilot insurance program for the pricing of green coffee beans in the city, so as to reduce the burden on coffee pro

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CHINA-GUIZHOU-TEA TECHNICIAN (CN)

(220501) -- MEITAN, May 1, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Guo Jun looks at a cup of tea his student brewed in Meitan County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 29, 2022. Busy toasting tea leaves on a stove, Guo Jun basks in the fresh aroma filling a workshop in Meitan County. After graduating from Guizhou University in 2016, Guo returned to his hometown to work at a tea company, where he learned tea making from a local master. In 2018, he became an instructor at a local technical school two years later. Honing one's tea-making skills demands huge reserves of patience, empathy and a strong sense of vocation. "My students and I have to bake while kneading the leaves by hand. Our hands often get burned on the wok, leaving them blisters," Guo recalled. "We, the younger generation, should cherish traditional tea making technique while tapping its innovative potential," he said. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)

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Coffee-serving taxi gains popularity in southwestern Japan

Arita Taxi President Shigetoshi Mieda sits inside the "Barista Taxi" in Arita, in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Saga on Feb. 8, 2016. The nine-seat taxi has gained popularity among passengers as the driver serves coffee, freshly brewed inside the vehicle, in local specialty Arita porcelain cups for free. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Coffee-serving taxi gains popularity in southwestern Japan

Shigetoshi Mieda, president of Arita Taxi, stands in front of the "Barista Taxi" in Arita, in the southwestern Japanese prefecture of Saga, on Feb. 8, 2016. The nine-seat taxi has gained popularity among passengers as the driver serves coffee, freshly brewed inside the vehicle, in local specialty Arita porcelain cups for free. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese green tea promoted at Milan Expo

Visitors to the Japan Pavilion of the food-themed Expo Milano in Milan taste cold-brewed green tea on Sept. 27, 2015. Refined tea from different regions of Japan will be introduced during the event to promote the specialty, held until Sept. 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese green tea promoted at Milan Expo

Visitors to the Japan Pavilion of the food-themed Expo Milano in Milan taste cold-brewed green tea on Sept. 27, 2015. Refined tea from different regions of Japan will be introduced during the event to promote the specialty, held until Sept. 30. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Craft-brewed sake gathers steam in U.S.

Jeremy Goldstein (R) and Andrew Centofante, co-founders of North American Sake Brewery in Charlottesville, Virginia, stand beside fermentation tanks in the brewery on Jan. 2, 2019. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sake brewery in central Japan

Photo taken Nov. 7, 2018, shows bottles of sake brewed at the Fuji Takasago Sake Brewery in Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's UCC Coffee opens 1st overseas "concept" cafe chain in Taiwan

(From L) Yoshinori Ando, senior managing director of the International Business Department of UCC Ueshima Coffee Co., Tatsushi Ueshima, the company's chairman, and British-born Taiwanese actress Judy Hu pose for a photo holding a glass of brewed coffee in Taipei on April 22, 2016. The Japanese company opened the first overseas store of its new cafe chain, Coffee Lover's Planet, in the Taiwanese capital that day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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"Sake" rice wine brewed with LED-radiated yeast

Naoki Okahisa of the Tokushima Prefectural Industrial Technology Center in western Japan poses for photos on Sept. 29, 2015, with bottles of "sake" rice wine brewed with a new type of yeast exposed to ultraviolet rays from light-emitting diodes. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Specialty lettuce used to brew low-malt beverage in Japanese village

A bottle of "Vegeale Lettuce," a low-malt "happoshu" beer-like beverage brewed with malt, hops and lettuce produced in the village of Showa, Gunma Prefecture, central Japan, is shown on May 28, 2015. Gunma is the third largest lettuce producer in Japan, most of which comes from the village. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Beverage makers opening factories to children and parents

TOKYO, Japan - Visitors to the Musashino brewery of Suntory Ltd. in Tokyo's Fuchu city sample freshly brewed draft beer after a guided tour. (Kyodo)

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Koshu wine showing signs of boom

KATSUNUMA, Japan - Yuzo Aruga, president of Katsunuma Winery Co., draws wine, which was brewed in 2004, from a casket for checks at a winery at Katsunuma Winery Co. in the town of Katsunuma, Yamanashi Prefecture, on Jan. 9. (Kyodo)

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Oktoberfest in West Bank

TAYBEH, West Bank - A woman (L) drinks locally brewed beer in the largely Christian village of Taybeh on the West Bank during the Taybeh Oktoberfest beer festival on Oct. 1, 2011. (Kyodo)

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Chocolates supporting disaster-hit areas

SENDAI, Japan - A woman shows chocolates (L) made with six different types of Japanese sake brewed in Miyagi Prefecture, hit by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, and chocolates (R) made with honey produced in Sendai, the prefectural capital, at the Fujisaki department store in Sendai on Feb. 9, 2012. (Kyodo)

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Quake-hit Kobe firm's sake brewed in 1995

KOBE, Japan - Japanese brewery Sawanotsuru Co.'s Hideki Makino (L) and Hiroyuki Konno on Jan. 8, 2015, in Kobe, hold a bottle of old vintage sake brewed in 1995, the year when the Kobe-based sake company was severely damaged by the Great Hanshin Earthquake in western Japan. Reservations have already made for all 50 bottles. (Kyodo)

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Various local beers shown in Noto, Japan

KANAZAWA, Japan - Various bottles and glasses of locally brewed beer are shown at the Okunoto Beer Japan Sea Club's restaurant in Noto, Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, in this file photo taken on July 22, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Cedar tree decorations mark year's new sake brewing

OSAKA, Japan - Balls made from cedar trees hanging under the eaves of distillers and houses mark the brewing of this year's new sake in Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture, after a ceremony to celebrate the first squeezing of sake from brewed rice this season on Nov. 25, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Liquor Making in Maotai Town

A brewer in a winery tests the strength of the new wine just brewed, in Maotai Town, Renhuai City, Guizhou Province, on January 7, 2021.

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Intangible Heritage Craft Brewing Vinegar

A worker shows hand-made aged vinegar brewed at home in Handan, Hebei province, China, Jan 15, 2021.

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Liquor Making in Maotai Town

A new wine just brewed by a winery, Maotai Town, Renhuai City, Guizhou Province, on January 7, 2021.

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Intangible Cultural Heritage Vinegar Brewing

A worker tests a sample of brewed vinegar in Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 23, 2020.

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Intangible Cultural Heritage Vinegar Brewing

A worker tests a sample of brewed vinegar in Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 23, 2020.

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Intangible Cultural Heritage Vinegar Brewing

A worker tests a sample of brewed vinegar in Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 23, 2020.

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Intangible Cultural Heritage Vinegar Brewing

A worker tests a sample of brewed vinegar in Lianyungang city, East China's Jiangsu Province, Dec. 23, 2020.

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light lager Hostan, drink coaster, beverage coaster, beermat, beer glass, half litre, HPL, high-pressure laminate table, retro pu

light lager Hostan, drink coaster, beverage coaster, beermat, beer glass, half litre, HPL, high-pressure laminate table, retro pub, restaurant, Czech Republic, May 11, 2013. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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light lager Hostan, drink coaster, beverage coaster, beermat, beer glass, half litre, HPL, high-pressure laminate table, retro pu

light lager Hostan, drink coaster, beverage coaster, beermat, beer glass, half litre, HPL, high-pressure laminate table, retro pub, restaurant, Czech Republic, May 11, 2013. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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light lager Hostan, drink coaster, beverage coaster, beermat, beer glass, half litre, HPL, high-pressure laminate table, retro pu

light lager Hostan, drink coaster, beverage coaster, beermat, beer glass, half litre, HPL, high-pressure laminate table, retro pub, restaurant, Czech Republic, May 11, 2013. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)

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Uhersky Brod Brewery, Olsavanka shop

The Uhersky Brod Brewery, Olsavanka shop, Zlin Region, Czech Republic, July 17, 2020. (CTK Photo/Libor Sojka)