Beijing Shuanghesheng & Five Star Beer Co., Ltd.
Beijing (Huairou), Beijing, China · Est. 1915
Tally's Take
Why this matters
China Pass 29. Local name: 北京双合盛五星啤酒有限公司. Ownership as recorded: State-owned wholly controlled. Entity type: BREWERY_COMPANY_HISTORIC_LINEAGE. Status as recorded: ACTIVE. Founder: Hao Shengtang and Zhang Tingge. Historic Beijing brewery lineage founded in 1915. Current Huairou government records identify four brands—Forbidden City, Shuanghesheng, Five Star and Longxiang—and confirm ongoing production/operations in 2025–2026.
The Beer Library
Beers
Forbidden City Strong Ale Craft Beer
CURRENT_OR_RECENTBelgian-style Strong Ale / Tripel
China Pass 29. Local name: 紫禁城烈性艾尔精酿啤酒. 2025 World Beer Awards Gold; official brewery also records a 2024 CBC 4-star Tianlu award.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Forbidden City Amber Ale
CURRENT_OR_RECENTBelgian-style Strong Dark / Amber Ale
China Pass 29. 2025 World Beer Awards Gold; 10.0% ABV.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Shuanghesheng Craft German Wheat Beer
CURRENT_OR_RECENTBavarian-style Hefeweiss
China Pass 29. Local name: 双合盛精酿德式小麦啤酒. 2024 World Beer Awards Gold; official brewery also records a 2024 CBC 3-star Tianlu award.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Five Star Pure Draft Beer
CURRENT_OR_RECENTPure Draft
China Pass 29. Local name: 五星纯生啤酒. Official brewery records a 2024 CBC 2-star Tianlu award.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sonhoshin Belgian Wheat Beer
CURRENTBelgian-style Witbier
China Pass 29. 2026 World Beer Awards Gold.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →Sonhoshin Sesame & Peanut Butter Stout Flavored Beer
CURRENTFlavoured Stout & Porter
China Pass 29. 2026 World Beer Awards Gold and China Country Winner in its category.
Drank this? Add it to your passport →On the record
Awards
- 2026
Gold — Sonhoshin Belgian Wheat Beer
World Beer Awards
- 2026
Gold / China Country Winner — Sonhoshin Sesame & Peanut Butter Stout Flavored Beer
World Beer Awards
- 2025
Gold — Forbidden City Amber Ale
World Beer Awards
- 2025
Gold — Forbidden City Strong Ale
World Beer Awards
- 2024
4-star Tianlu Award — Forbidden City Strong Ale Craft Beer
China International Beer Challenge (CBC)
- 2024
3-star Tianlu Award — Shuanghesheng Craft German Wheat Beer
China International Beer Challenge (CBC)
- 2024
2-star Tianlu Award — Five Star Pure Draft Beer
China International Beer Challenge (CBC)
- 2024
Gold — Sonhoshin & Five Star Beer German Style Wheat Beer
World Beer Awards
Only awards we could attribute to a named body and year appear here. An empty section means unresearched, not unawarded.
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Sources
- recordProbable
Brewery record compiled in Tally's China master, Pass 29 — Hunan wider sweep (research workbook), which cited https://www.bjhr.gov.cn/zwgk/zfxxgkjg/qzfbmdh/qgzwxxgk/202510/t20251028_4251622.html for this entry. The cited page has not been opened by the archive.
Tally's China master, Pass 29 — Hunan wider sweep (research workbook) · Compiled with ChatGPT web search under the Tally's workbook protocol · 2026-08
CommercialMedium reliabilityAccessed 2026-08-19Reviewed 2026-08-19
Only the claims above are sourced. Everything else on this page is the archive's own research and has not yet been tied to a document — which is worth knowing rather than hiding.
Straight answers
Common questions about Beijing Shuanghesheng & Five Star Beer Co., Ltd.
- Who owns Beijing Shuanghesheng & Five Star Beer Co., Ltd.?
- Beijing Shuanghesheng & Five Star Beer Co., Ltd. is recorded as owned by State-owned wholly controlled, which does not yet have a full company profile in this archive.
- When was Beijing Shuanghesheng & Five Star Beer Co., Ltd. founded?
- Beijing Shuanghesheng & Five Star Beer Co., Ltd. was founded in 1915 in Beijing (Huairou), Beijing, China.
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