At the most, this place is a try-hard hipster den, a haven for the socially awkward. I'm a fun guy and make every situation turn for the better, but this place doesn't give you anything to work with other than a hole in the wall to drink beer in at usual rates.

-Entire place is constantly hot boxed by cheap cigarettes.
-Looks nothing like the pictures, the walls are crumbling apart, the floor is uneven and it's half the size of your average liquor store.
-The stools, tables and chairs are all medieval and cheap; good luck getting comfortable here.
-The bar counter top is constantly filled with advertisements baskets and other junk with as little room there is, you're just about forced to palm your drink, but since this place is so small you'll see someone getting bumped into and spilling their beer on themselves every few minutes. Happened twice to my friend and noticed a bunch others in the short times i've been there.

Don't kid yourself or others, this place is crap, has nothing other bars don't; but more importantly tries to utilize what other bars have, trips over its own feet at the starting line and drags all of those usually positive factors down into the dirt with it.

Make having a draft here the reward for finding it. I recommend seek it out on foot while wandering around the surrounding hutongs of the Forbidden City (which have plenty of interesting little gems of all sorts... odd museums and galleries, restaurants, parks etc.) then arrive in the early evening and wait for the band to arrive. A good place to have music and local conversation in the midst of history. It's been quite a while and I'd say a lot of the local bands, new and old, have played at least a gig or two here.