Booze News: Cheers 10th Anniversary, New BEI Prosecco Terrace, GLB Collective Registration

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Cheers 10-year anniversary

Everyone's favorite Beijing wine shop celebrates a massive milestone this Saturday, Apr 10 with the arrival of their 10-year anniversary. As a thank you to all the support they've received over the years, everyone's invited to their Central Plaza store between 5pm and 1am for drinking, dancing, finger food, 10 free bottles of wine poured by the glass every hour, a massive birthday cake, and of course, lots of smiles. For something stronger, the Wind Down Club has also created a signature Cheers-inspired birthday cocktail menu. For more details, click here.

BEI Commune's terrace reopens and rebrands

Over at Sanlitun's BEI Zhaolong Hotel, they're gearing up for spring with the reopening and rebranding of their outdoor space, which has been transformed into a prosecco terrace. As of Friday's launch, guests can enjoy two hours of free-flow prosecco alongside canapes such as parma ham and rocket crostini, mozzarella and cherry tomato crostini, and risotto and beef balls with the purchase of an RMB 198 coupon (down from RMB 398). Click here to buy a coupon, which is good through to May.

Great Leap Brewing Collective registration now open

As is tradition, Great Leap has opened up 88 new slots for their annual Collective registration as of yesterday, Apr 8. Collectivists get a whole host of perks, including their very own 550ml pour mug instead of the usual 440ml pour for regular customers, a free first beer after registration, a free birthday beer, access to GLB's monthly Collective Special day with special beer prices, as well as more Collectivist-only events throughout the year. To join, simply go to your local GLB and ask any bartender about joining the Great Leap Collective. Single location membership is RMB 400 or RMB 100 for renewals (or multi-location, including all Beijing locations as well as Chengdu, costs RMB 588 for registration and RMB 188 for renewal). Finally, if you drink over 100 mugs in a year, your renewal fee will be automatically waived. Find more details here.

Sticking with GLB, following last week's all-you-can-drink-beer-and-eat-pizza event, the brewery will now use the same winning formula but with hotdogs. This Sunday afternoon at GLB #12, feast on hotdogs how you like and wash them down with unlimited pours on five GLB beers plus a couple of mixer options. Food will run midday-2.30pm, and drinks midday-4pm. Tickets are RMB 200.

Tequila nights at May's

May’s Baseball Bar, which features "the only interactive baseball hitting fairway in Beijing" as well as darts and foosball, is about to liven things up with a new tequila promotion on Friday and Saturdays, 6pm-2am, with every half-dozen tequila shots now awarding you six free shots. That should certainly help put the swing in things.

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Images: Mathilda Langevin (via Unsplash), courtesy of the organizers