As China's craft beer market begins to take flight, two brewers have teamed up to produce the country's first collaborative craft beer: Yunnan Amber, a beer that infuses southwestern Yunnan province's dianhong black tea with domestic and imported hops.

Carl Setzer of Beijing's Great Leap Brewing joined forces with Michael Jordan of Shanghai's Boxing Cat Brewery after they both attended San Diego's Craft Brewing Conference last May. "Carl and I have known each other for a while, as the brewing circles in China are pretty small,"...