Beer News

SPENDING in pubs has jumped in the wake of George Osborne's Budget decision to cut beer duty, The Sun can reveal.

Developed by Budweiser's Brazilian division, the cup's microchip links to your Facebook profile and broadcasts a new "friend" update each time you clink your Buddy Cup with someone as you stagger around a boozy keg party.

After the legislative day ends at the Capitol, it's common for lobbyists and lawmakers to meet for dinner at one of several - usually higher-end - Olympia restaurants.

Here's a look at how the day went. It all started before 7am, with the malt going into the mash tun.

There are tons of opportunity for branding in the craft beer industry, of course, but there isn't a pathological need for it like with cars or cookies or coffee or most everything you can think of.

Wednesday's ad is for the Barley and Malt Institute, from 1959. This is the third ad I have from the now defunct trade group for barley growers.

Hop Hog has taken the top spot in The Critics' Choice: Australia's Best Beers book.

An Edinboro man accused of stealing nearly $550,000 from a beer distributor in the borough has pleaded guilty to three felony theft charges in the case.

The beerfest will attract real ale devotees to the town from a wide area and runs from midday until late on May 4, 5 and 6. Visitors can expect real ales such as Stonehenge Brewery's 'Danish Dynamite', Cheddar Ales' 'Totty Pot' plus a selection of traditional local farmhouse ciders.

As I settle onto a bar stool at Vesuvio Cafe in San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood, the bartender pours me just what I've come here for: a perfect pint of Anchor Steam beer.

FORMER Formula One champion Jody Scheckter fears an alcohol watchdog will wipe out the beer side of his organic business.

Boston Beer earned 51 cents per share in the first three months of 2013, down almost 9% from a year earlier and well below the 62 cents a share expected by analysts.

Almost 65 years after Allied planes flew Western supplies into blockaded Berlin, a new American import is arriving by air: craft beer.

Customers who go to Mohegan Sun at Pocono Downs with a Players Club card can get free 16-ounce draft beer while they're playing table games or slots as part of the casino's annual "Hot Summer Fun" promotion.

Those of you who are fans of the anarchist Futurama Bender robot, you may be familiar with the episode of the TV show when he made his own beer called Benderbrau.

Collaborations can create some seriously sweet stuff and the Heineken x Lowdi x Ed Banger speaker box is just such an innovation.

The Vegan Beer Festival this Saturday, May 4, from 1-5 p.m., is set to delight buzz-seaking meat-abstainers of Southern California for the fourth year.

Craft-beer geeks in Colorado are used to good news: more breweries, new beers and the continued growth of an industry that makes most Coloradans proud, happy and pleasantly buzzed.

If you like politics and you like beer - and who could object to that combination - then there is a local podcast made just for you.

Following the news that beer consumption in the UK was down by 50 million pints in the first quarter of this year, comes the news that sales in Germany have slumped as well.