Billionaire Bill Gates is not a beer fan or even a big beer drinker, he has said earlier, but he found value in buying share of such companies. Bill Gates has now bought over 3.7% stake in the Dutch drinks giant, Heineken.

U.S.: Bill Gates buys 3.76% stake in Dutch drinks giant Heineken | World Business Watch

Football fans are warming up by having boiling hot beer straight out of the teapot while enjoying the World Cup. Molly Gambhir tells you more.

Gravitas: Chinese football fans enjoy hot beer

The owner of American beer giant Budweiser said Friday that restrictions at World Cup matches were "beyond our control," after FIFA and host nation Qatar announced sales at stadiums would not go ahead.

Budweiser reacts to FIFA World Cup beer restrictions, says it is 'beyond our control'

The announcement by punk rock singer Dominik Wlazny to run for the president’s office came as a surprise for everyone in the country. What made the campaign even more interesting was the name of his political outfit – Beer Party – and the promise of free beer to all his supporters in the campaign.

Austria's Beer Party gaining national prominence after election success

A busy Florida highway came to a grinding halt after a crash involving several vehicles led to the spillage of thousands of beer cans and caused injuries to the drivers.

Thousands of beer cans block Florida highway for hours after trailers crash

In pics - Oktoberfest returns to Munich after two-year hiatus

Munich mayor Didier Reiter kicked off the festival by opening a beer keg with a hammer. The festival was held in 2019, the 6.3 million guests drank more than 7.3 million litres of beer. Oktoberfest will continue till October 3.

Munich's mayor kicks off Oktoberfest by opening beer keg with hammer

The craft beer sector in the United States can rejoice as the sun is finally shining again. This impression is reinforced by the Brewers Association's recent report, the industry's main trade group, which shows the sector's strong recovery from pandemic-related losses.

Data Lab| Fed up with mundane beer options? A brewing revolution is underway in the US

A court in western Germany’s Rhineland-Palatinate state has sentenced a 50-year-old man to life imprisonment for killing a gas station worker after being told to wear a mask while buying beer.

German man given life sentence for killing cashier over Covid mask rule

It is a popular conception that alcoholic drinks are extremely popular among the youth in any country, but Japan seems to be slowly changing the trend. In the past few years, the popularity of low and non-alcoholic drinks has surged massively in the country with the percentage of Japanese people in the age group of 21-30 years who drink has gone down to 7.

Japan moves towards low- and non-alcoholic drinks amidst massive demand

Javier Carvajal, who is an Ecuadoran bioengineer, has managed to resurrect a 400-year-old beer from its yeast. Carvajal found the yeast specimen inside an old oak barrel.

A 400-year-old Ecuadoran beer resurrected from yeast specimen

A South Korean beer company has expressed their gratitude to a group of people who helped them in cleaning a huge spill in the city of Chuncheon last month. The company called Cass posted a video in social media where they said that on June 29, around 2000 bottles of beer fell from the side of a delivery truck at an intersection.

South Korean beer company thanks 'heroes' for cleaning road after 2,000-bottle spill

Singapore's water agency has launched a craft beer made from wastewater. The substance used to create "NewBrew" is taken from sewage. Take a look!

What is ‘NewBrew’? A beer made from urine

A new research suggests that even non-alcoholic beer could increase the diversity of gut microbes in men. Researchers from Nova University Lisbon, Portugal, asked 19 healthy adult men to drink 11 oz (325 ml) of alcoholic or non-alcoholic lager with supper every day for four weeks to better understand the impact of beer on the diversity of gut flora.

A beer a day might keep your gut flora healthy: Study

Beer necessitates a large amount of water. In fact, the drink contains more than 90% water.So, in a world where water scarcity is becoming more of a worry as a result of the climate catastrophe, Singapore has chosen to try something new to address the problem.

Ready for beer made from urine? Singapore gives ‘getting on the piss’ new meaning

This brewery in Ukraine’s Lviv has stopped making beer as the country is under attack by Russia. But what are they making now? Watch to find out.

This Ukrainian brewery stopped making beer. What is it making now?

Maredret Abbey, founded in 1893, is a Benedictine community of 20 monks in Belgium. The Abbey's nuns, who were trying to come up with the funds for some much-needed renovations, turned to brew as a source of income.

Belgian nuns join monks in brewing beer using a traditional recipe

When the nuns of Maredret Abbey in Belgium were unable to raise finances for much-needed renovations, they turned to a trade that had hitherto been reserved for monks, i.e. beer making.

Belgian nuns resort to beer-making using a traditional recipe to raise funds for renovations

The adventurism of getting a rare experience can sometimes result in a lot of trouble. Two American tourists learnt this lesson the hard way after they broke into the Colosseum to reportedly experience the pleasure of having a beer inside the ancient Roman amphitheatre.

Two unruly US tourists break into Colosseum, get €800 fine for ‘enjoying’ beer  

What would you do if a fight breaks next to you but you have a beer in hand? A hockey fan believes enjoying her beer is more important. Images of a woman enjoying her beer while a violent brawl broke near her in the stands of a hockey game have gone viral.

Watch: Woman enjoys her drink as people around her get into violent fight

Fine cheese is the food of the sophisticated. The dairy product is paired with different foods or drinks to enhance the delight of fine dining. There are many, many types of cheese and each has its own taste and fanbase.

People had blue cheese and beer even 2700 years ago, says study

Belgium's cafe terraces will not re-open to thirsty beer drinkers for another week but the country's renowned brewers are already all hands to the pump. Six months after the country went into a second coronavirus lockdown, proud bar owners and beer makers alike are keen to get back to business.

Belgium races to get beer to bars for great reopening

A bar in Copenhagen has started offering customers a COVID-19 test and a beer while they wait for the result to help get business moving again after months of restrictions

A COVID test and a beer? A bar in Copenhagen has you covered

It wasn’t exactly a sunken treasure. But that apparently didn’t stop a team of divers in Argentina from going to extraordinary lengths to pilfer 700 liters, or 185 gallons, of artisanal beer that had been left by three local breweries to age, attached to a sunken ship, on the ocean floor.

Aging beer in a sunken ship sounded like a good idea. Thieves thought so too.

beer

Beer, News on Beer, stories on Beer, articles on Beer, Beer stories at Wion, Beer news, Beer latest news