Tag: beer

• Friday, August 4th 2023 - 05:12 UTC

  EU countries recover beer production to pre pandemic output levels

  

  The European Union countries recovered their beer output levels to almost those preceding the pandemic years, producing nearly 34.3 billion liters of alcoholic beer in 2022, Eurostat said on Thursday.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Coronavirus upshot: German beer sales down

  

  Beer sales within Germany were down 5.5% in 2020 compared with the year before amid coronavirus pandemic restrictions the Federal Statistical Office has said. In total, German-based breweries and distributors sold 8.7 billion liters (2.3 billion gallons), according to official figures.

• Friday, May 15th 2020 - 07:15 UTC

  How to keep beer flowing in England: Home delivery pub

  

  Britain’s pubs may be shut, but one east London brewer has found a novel way to keep the beer flowing - by packing his kegs into a van and pulling pints on people’s doorsteps.

• Tuesday, March 10th 2020 - 06:32 UTC

  Global breweries expanding their business in Brazil

  

  Heineken NV will invest 865 million reais (US$183.14 million) to expand its Ponta Grossa brewing plant in Brazil, the company said on Monday, as competition between the world's two largest beer makers bubbles up.

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:33 UTC

  Mexican drug kingpin has its own beer, “El Chapo Mexican Lager”

  

  Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman may be serving a life sentence in prison, but the Mexican drug kingpin can now boast to having his own beer. El Chapo Mexican Lager was launched by Guzman's daughter Alejandrina, who runs a fashion and lifestyle company built around her father's brand.

• Wednesday, February 20th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  London's Craft Beer Festival is back with 155 breweries beginning 21 February

  

  From February 21st-23rd, the UK’s largest and most comprehensive beer festival, Craft Beer Rising, is back in east London. If 155 breweries and an array of delicious street food offerings weren’t enough, there will also be a world-class soundtrack from five of influential London radio station Soho Radio’s key hosts.

• Monday, September 3rd 2018 - 09:10 UTC

  Upset Hindus urge Chilean brewery to withdraw goddess Kali beer & apologize

  

  Upset Hindus are urging Chile's based Cerveza Bundor craft brewery to apologize and retire its “Kali IPA” beer carrying the re-imagined image of Hindu goddess Kali; calling it highly inappropriate.

• Monday, April 25th 2016 - 21:07 UTC

  Germans thirst for beer dwindling; health consciousness prevailing

  

  For 500 years Germany’s famous Beer Purity Law has been protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding. But the law, or Reinheitsgebot, which marked its 500th anniversary last Friday, has been unable to protect the country’s 1,350 brewers and the proud industry from a modern plague: health consciousness.

• Wednesday, June 6th 2012 - 23:40 UTC

  Rousseff signs bill allowing beer sales in stadiums during 2014 World Cup

  

  Brazil president Dilma Rousseff announced Wednesday the government will temporarily shelve a law banning the consumption and sale of beer in stadiums for the duration of the 2014 World Cup.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 02:51 UTC

  Alcohol consumption in Latin America is considerably less than in Europe and US

  

  Alcohol consumption in Latin America is low compared to Europe and the US and averages 5.5 litres of pure alcohol per year per capita, although with marked differences between countries and gender. In Europe consumption is estimated at 13 litres of pure alcohol while in the US the average in 9.8 litres.