Beer News

Beer is the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage on the planet. Good beer requires good quality yeasts and researchers are continuing to hunt for new strains.

Beer blogger Chris Schryer, based in Toronto, decided to give up food for Lent, and drink beer for 40 days straight instead.

A blast from the past is causing a stir in the present for a Michigan elementary school teacher who allowed her 5th-grade students to drink O’Doul’s non-alcoholic beer in a class lesson on colonial times.

Sochi - While American spectators are upset at being denied a frosty cold one during Sochi Olympic hockey games most Russians agree with the ban saying it helps keep rowdy fans in check."If they sell beer at hockey games it could be dangerous," Yevgeny Khislav...

Pottsville - Yes, I said Yuengling's Ice Cream. After a 30-year hiatus, the company that shares its name with the popular Pennsylvania brewery has revived its ice cream production.

Chicago - MillerCoors, brewer of the iconic lite beer, sets its sights on consumers looking for something a little different with their upcoming release of 'Fortune', a beer that they hope will please whiskey drinkers.

Edmonton - Want to pour your own beer during a night out? The first self-serve beer tables in Alberta are now in operation at a pub on Whyte Avenue.

Dortmund - It seems everyone is a critic these days. Two men walked into a shop in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany demanding a bottle of Beck's Gold beer. When the shop owner couldn't oblige, they set the establishment on fire.

Berlin - Germans are slowly losing their taste for beer, with domestic sales of the amber nectar down for the seventh year in a row, the national statistics office said Thursday.

Some three years in the making, Jelly Belly, the maker of gourmet jelly beans, is now adding draft beer flavored beans to its vast collection of flavors.