About Arrow Factory

We are named after the street where we started out first brews, like so many others, in buckets in a small room. Arrow Factory hutong is an old street in Beijing whose name can be traced back to a map of the capital in the fifteenth year of the Qianlong reign (1750 AD), which shows it marked with an arrow pavilion located outside the west wall of the Guozijian, where hopeful students took the exams to enter the imperial court. During their downtime and to let off some off some steam, the students would practice archery and martial arts at the Arrow Pavillion. During the reign of Emperor Xuantong of the Qing Dynasty, the last Emperor of China, it was called “Compassion Alley”. After the liberation in 1949 the hutong was renamed Jian Chang Hutong “Arrow Factory Hutong”.  In 2012 we started making making beers for our craft sausage restaurant "Stuff'd" at No.9 Arrow Factory in a backroom used for storage. In 2015 we installed 12x 1000 litre fermenters and a 1000 litre mash system at "Charcoal" to meet the increasing demands for our beers, but that was short-lived so we moved the whole lot to the location by Liang Ma River, which is part of the old canal system used to transport good into and around Beijing.