https://www.thatsqingdao.com/qingdao-international-beer-festival/
Maybe Suzhou could embrace something similar? If there are other craft breweries and pubs, get together and announce a mini festival where you all offer some special brews, extended happy hours... involve some local restaurants...
I drank a pint of sichuan pepper (amber? I forget) ale at a local pub a while back. It was interesting and challenging but by the end of the pint it was too much. I do remember thinking that it may have really suited a high abv dark beer.
Could be worth experimenting with, if you think the...
I lived in Shanghai for 18 months, ten years ago. The beer was mostly horrific. Even as someone that was used to Aussie megaswills, it was bad.
I did taste Tsingtao in Qingdao though, during their version of Oktoberfest, and it was nothing like the bottled headache that is Tsingtao everywhere...
Did you ever consider putting the propane burner on top of a dolly (hopefully that isn't an Aussie slang - flat board on wheels) so you could turn off the flame and wheel it indoors? The extra height would help as well.
Also, and this is directed as other replies, has hybrid propane/electric...