Beer gardens are beginning to open up across Germany. Yet In order to make up for the losses they have faced over the past year, brewers have had to take matters into their own hands.
We wouldn’t blame you if you were in need of a drink this year more than others. Lucky for us, we live in a country where the brewing and drinking of beer not only has a proud tradition, but is engrained in its cultural identity.
A Bavarian brewery has been granted official Munich brewery status for the first time in a century, guaranteeing a
place with greats like Löwenbräu at the famous Oktoberfest beer festival.
A brewery in the German state of Bavaria has been forced to suspend beer production after a family of storks
made themselves at home in one of its chimneys.
Bavaria on Tuesday cancelled the iconic Oktoberfest for the first time since World War II dealing a fresh blow to Germany's beer industry already hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
An American woman living in the US state of Maryland has sent back a stone Bierkrug that she stole from Munich’s Hofbräuhaus in 1965, saying she could no longer deal with the guilt.
It is a custom that has caught out every expat at one point or another: so why do Germans insist on looking each other in the eye when they say cheers?
For many inside and outside of the country, beer is synonymous with Germans, Germany and the German lifestyle. On German Beer Day, we break down the amber fluid’s long history in the country and why it's so important to Germans – from Bockbier enthusiasts to teetotallers.
Germany now drinks two thirds of what it did in the 1970s. But expanding microbreweries and new attitudes shows it’s never been a better time to be a beer drinker in Germany.
Beer with cannabis is experiencing a high in Germany. And it can be produced within the law, as long as the THC content - the active ingredient in cannabis - doesn’t exceed legal limits. We spoke to the brewers making hemp beer.
Everything is ready. For weeks, Angela Hopper has been doing special fitness training, including private lessons in carrying beer steins. This is how much preparation the waitress needs in order to survive the 16 days of Oktoberfest.
Soaring temperatures in Germany's ongoing summer heatwave have seen so many drinkers reach for a cold beer that breweries are running out of bottles and crates.
At this year’s Oktoberfest, for the first time a one litre mug of beer (Maß) in some tents will set a visitor back more than €11, the city of Munich announced on Wednesday.
