Brewing trouble: Chinese beer worker caught ‘taking the piss’ into tank (video)

The saying “It tastes like piss” has been a light-hearted retort echoed countless times across the globe on a lads’ night out in response to the question, “How’s your beer?” Yet, in the peculiar case of one Chinese brew, this expression took on a whole new meaning when a Tsingtao factory worker was, quite literally, caught “brewing” mischief by urinating into a beer tank.

Photographs of the “piss taker” relieving himself in a beer tank in Tsingtao quickly spread like wildfire on social media, amassing tens of millions of views. The incident prompted Chinese authorities to launch an investigation, potentially endangering the reputation of the renowned mainland brewery.

The Qingdao-based company wasted no time in alerting the police as soon as the video came to their attention, reassuring the public that the batch of…