A guy walks into a bar in Beijing, orders three bottles of Harbin beer and sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip of each one in turn When he finishes them, he comes back to the bar and orders three more. The bartender approaches and tells him, “You know, a beer goes flat after I open it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time.”

The guy replies, “Well, you see, I have two brothers; one in Port-of-Spain, the other in New York, and me here in Beijing. When we all left home, we promised that we would drink this way to remember the days when we used to drink together. So I drink one for each of my brothers and one for myself.” The bartender admits that this is a nice family custom, and leaves the guy to his drinking.

The guy becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way; but one day, he comes in and orders two bottles of Harbin beer. All the other regulars take notice and fall silent. When the guy comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender, thinking that one of his brothers must have died, says “I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your great loss.”

The guy looks confused for a moment, then he laughs, “Oh, no. Everyone's fine,” he explains. “It's just that I joined a new church and I personally had to stop drinking.”
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