United Kingdom

Diageo buys Geroge Clooney's tequila company for $1 billion

Diageo buys Geroge Clooney's tequila company for $1 billion

22 June 2017

Cult

Next stop drunkenness? The bar where beer arrives on a train

15 June 2017

Mexico

G+T x 300 = Record

Record-breaking bartenders prove their skills in Mexico City.

6 June 2017

Earth News

Berlin Heaven Scent

The world's first cocktail bar dedicated to the art of combining cocktails and perfumes.

5 June 2017

World News

Russian dinner party turns deadly

Nine peopleshot dead following dinner party dispute.

5 June 2017

Germany

Festival's beer pipeline set to be music to the ears of metalheads

27 May 2017

No Comment

'Trump' beer on sale in Ukraine

A craft brewery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has begun producing a new type of beer devoted to the 45th president of the United States.

19 May 2017

World News

Which EU state is the world's heaviest-drinking country?

Lithuanians are the world’s heaviest drinkers and their boozing is showing no signs of slowing, new data reveals.

17 May 2017

Hungary

The ruin bars of Budapest

The vivid and pulsing downtown party zone of Budapest exhibits how a city can transform over a half a century.

17 May 2017

USA

A hangover cure that actually works?

Two students at Yale University say they have developed a hangover-prevention supplement that actually works.

15 May 2017

Business Series

Battle for the bottle: cork fights back

Cork producers turn to high tech to win back customers who changed to screw caps and plastic stoppers.

9 May 2017

Canada

Canada orders recall of too-strong Bombay Sapphire gin

Canadian liquor authorities are recalling bottles of Bombay Sapphire after it was revealed they contained nearly double the amount of alcohol.

4 May 2017

No Comment

Pope Benedict XVI toasts his 90th birthday with a pint

Pope Emeritus Benedict celebrated his 90th birthday on Monday (April 17) in the garden of his residence in the Vatican.

19 April 2017

Economy

Less wine, more money

Less wine was produced around the world last year the International Organisation of Vine and Wine says, but the value of sales rose.

11 April 2017

Russia

Death toll in Russian mass alcohol poisoning climbs to 58

Mass alcohol poisoning has killed at least 58 people in Russia and hospitalised dozens.

20 December 2016

Japan

Bathing in Beaujolais!

Why just drink it, when you can also bathe in it?

17 November 2016

Israel

The Palestinian Territories' 'delicious' one and only brewery faces constant adversity

Milk and honey are not the only things that flow from the olive tree-peppered hills of Ramallah. There is also beer.

30 October 2016

Cuba

US-Cuba: Obama lifts limits on rum and cigars

It is a parting gift from President Obama to US tourists in Cuba.

14 October 2016

Belgium

Bruges' beer pipeline becomes reality

4,000 litres – how much is pumped an hour Four million euros – how much it cost Three kilometres – the total length Belgium’s new beer pipeline opens It is one pipe dream that has very much become

15 September 2016

World News

Euro 2016: French cities restrict alcohol in bid to end hooligan violence

An alcohol ban has come into force in Lille and other major French cities in a bid to curb the violence which has so far marred Euro 2016.

14 June 2016