Karl Long Challenge 2018!

Just before the Golden Week break, Great Leap Brewing announced our 8th Anniversary celebration that will take place on October 13th at both Great Leap Brewing locations. You can click here to see more information concerning that, but for this post we want to provide those of you with a bit of context for why we celebrate our anniversary the way we do. Have a look. 

The original Great Leap legend (apart from our esteemed founders) goes by the name of Karl Long. He used to be the manager of Paddy O’Shea’s back in the day (we are sure most of you degenerates have been there before), and even helped manage Great Leap Brewing #12 in its first few months of operations. Nevertheless, back sometime in 2011 he was the dude that showed up at Great Leap Brewing when we were just operating out of our Doujiao Hutong location and had yet to add our 20-tap Micromatic draft system. We were selling 8 beers on tap then. He came by the courtyard one day and drank the entire menu. Then he drank them all again. In one day. 16 beers. The icing on the cake – after drinking the menu twice, he got into an argument with someone who he felt looked like Sabrina the Teenage Witch, threw off his shirt, and flexed “menacingly” in their direction. Did this end in a pool of blood? Nah, cooler heads prevailed. But a Great Leap legend and tradition was born nonetheless. 

Flash forward to 2018, and we are happy to announce the 6th installment of our Great Leap Brewing anniversary tradition – the Karl Long Challenge. While Mr. Long finished sixteen beers that fateful day, we have dialed back the notch a bit and set the cap at 15 beers. Seem like a significant difference to you? Probably not, but if you attempt it you’ll be thanking us wholeheartedly. This year’s Karl Long Challenge will take place on October 13th across both of our locations. How it works: 

1. Show up at the Great Leap Brewing location of your choosing (#45 opens at 11am, #6 opens at noon). 

2. Pay 300rmb and receive your Karl Long Challenge card with 15 beers on it. 

3. Go to both Great Leap locations throughout the day and finish all 15 beers on your card. You can do seven beers at one location and eight at the other, or 14 beers at one location and one at the other. Combination doesn’t matter – The key is to get to both locations and finish all your beers. No friends helping!

4. When you finish your 15 beers, take your shirt off and take a picture with the bar manager. 

5. Receive your special-edition 8th anniversary GLB t-shirt available only to those who complete the Karl Long Challenge. 

6. Become a legend. 

Sound enticing? It’s certainly not an experience for the faint of heart, but it is one that, while potentially unrewarding on October 14th, will certainly leave you feeling proud on the 15th… maybe the 16th. For those of you who are less adventurous (or more responsible, same same), we will also have a special going on at all Great Leap locations throughout the whole day on October 13th. 100rmb will get you any four beers on our menu. On top of that, at our Great Leap Brewing #45 location, we will have another special where 100rmb gets you any two beers on the menu as well as one burger OR two slices of pizza from our daily slice menu. See? Something for everybody! So please, come out and celebrate our 8th Anniversary with us on Saturday, October 13th.