Alcohol consumption in Germany has been sliding then suddenly plunged. Out of approximately 1,500 breweries in Germany, more than 50 have closed in the past year.

a beer can, glass of beer and coca-cola, and can of coca-cola - Angela L. Pagán/The Takeout Jack and Coke, vodka soda, tequila and Squirt. Soda and alcohol are by no means strangers to each other, but ...

Sometimes we get a little too caught up in the American craft beer world and have to take a step back and pay a little respect to those who not only came before but are still doing it today. We’re ...

Considered by many as the top beer country in the world, Germany makes some amazing brews. But what are the very best? Here ...

AIKEN — Dark skies and rain dampened festival goers but not their spirits at Aiken’s Oktoberfest Sept. 20. Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, is the world’s largest folk festival, attended by millions of ...

With U.S. and all other foreign troops leaving Afghanistan, the German military has to deal with a very German problem: What to do with 65,000 cans of beer at its base in Mazar-e-Sharif? The magazine ...

As part of NPR's summer travel series, Rob Schmitz takes us to a remote corner of southern Germany, where a nun has been brewing Bavarian beer for... A Pilgrimage To Meet Germany's Last Beer-Brewing ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Who doesn't love washing down a delicious donut with some German beer? Co-owner of SF hotspot Radhaus, Aaron Hulme, certainly thinks it's a winning combo. "I think to say I fell in ...

Christian Eisenbeiss has beer in his blood. So does Bernhard Sailer. Both are third-generation members of German brewing families, both love their work, and for now, both are brewing up heady profits.