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21-JUL-2008 | Budweiser Sold to Belgium Firm
The owners of Stella Artois have taken over the famous Budweiser beer in a £27 billion pound deal. This deal has made Stella Artois the biggest brewer in the World with an expected 46 billion litres of beer to be produced over the next year. [cont...]
15-JUL-2008 | More Deaths in India Expected due to Drinking Illegal Alcohol
Over 150 people have died in India after drinking poisonous illegal alcohol and 50 survivors have been left with permanent blindness while 135 in hospitals are in critical conditions. [cont...]
07-JUL-2008 | Car to Run on Wine
When Queen Elizabeth gave her son Prince Charles an Aston Martin for his 21st birthday present she would no doubt have raised the royal eyebrow if she had been told that 38 years later it would be fueled up and run on wine! [cont...]
20-MAY-2008 | Beer is Given Priority on Seatbelt Over Child
When the police in Alice Springs, Australian pulled over a driver during a routine check they were amazed to see that he had carefully strapped in his ‘slab’ of 30 cans of beer with the seat belt yet a five year old boy was in the back seat with unrestrained! [cont...]
17-APR-2008 | Paid to Drink Beer at £7 an Hour
Jack Hammond, 88 likes his ‘four times’ a week tipple in his local pub but hates to drink alone. He has therefore taken the step of advertising for the job of drinking with him and offers a wage of £7 an hour. [cont...]
06-APR-2008 | Massive Rise in Hospital Admissions Since Allowing 24 Hour Drinking
Despite the many warnings on alcohol abuse and the rise in related crime the admission of hospitals has quadrupled in some areas since the introduction of 24 hours drinking. [cont...]
30-MAR-2008 | Beer Drinking Shire Horse Stolen and Now Back Home
When thieves stole a 22 month old gelding from his stable last week they were no doubt shocked to discover the Shire horse was partial to a daily pint of beer. [cont...]
24-MAR-2008 | Surge in Demand for Home Brewing Kits
Adding the price of 4p onto a pint of beer has given rise to a mad rush in people buying home brewing kits and ingredients. [cont...]
18-MAR-2008 | Breaking the Home Brewing Law in Alabama
It is still against the law to brew your own beer in Alabama seventy five years after Prohibition. Beer enthusiasts in Alabama are now fighting for the right to brew and drink as and when they choose. [cont...]
13-MAR-2008 | Illicit Alcohol in Coventry Off-Licenses
Four off-licenses in and around Coventry have had a combined total of 1,639 bottles of spirits and almost 14,000 cans of lager confiscated from their premises during a two day crackdown by custom officers. [cont...]
07-MAR-2008 | Teenagers Wreck £250.000 House While Drinking and Taking Drugs
Drunk and drug fueled teenagers totally wrecked a £250,000 house in one night during a party that 15 year old Gemma Johnson held while her parents where away. [cont...]
03-MAR-2008 | Alcohol Tracking Bracelets
A new device for monitoring alcohol consumption is now widely used in America for people who have been ordered to refrain from drinking. It is hoped this system will help those recovering from alcohol addiction and having to serve a jail sentence for crimes committed while under the influence of drink. [cont...]
25-FEB-2008 | Beer for Our Afghanistan Bound Soldiers
The elite Parachute Regiment based in Colchester has the backing of its local pub ‘The Fox and Fiddler’ to the point that is it now brewing a special beer for the soldiers that are heading to Afghanistan on active duty. [cont...]
21-FEB-2008 | Beer Mats and Domestic Abuse
Domestic abuse messages are on display on beer mats in thousands of pubs within the North Yorkshire areas of Thirsk, Northallerton and Easingwold. [cont...]
18-FEB-2008 | Pubs, Bars and Restaurants Should Sell Wine in Smaller Glasses
Liberal Democrat Greg Mulholland is to propose a bill next week to the House of Commons calling for the reinstatement of traditional 125ml measures. [cont...]
08-FEB-2008 | Generous Beer Drinkers in Britain Come Out Top in Survey
British beer drinkers have found to be the most generous when it comes to buying rounds according to new research by Miller Brands (UK) Ltd’s and parent company SABMiller, as part of its Beer Etiquette report. [cont...]
05-FEB-2008 | Lyrics within Hit Songs Contain Drinking and Drug Taking Messages
A study by American academics has revealed that one in three hits songs contains reference to drinking alcohol and taking drugs, with rap music having almost 80% of lyrics mentioning marijuana or alcohol and making it the worst offender. [cont...]
28-JAN-2008 | Deaths from Alcohol Related Problems have Doubled in UK
The Government has released figures that were published by the Office for National Statistics, stating that the number of people dying from related alcohol problems has more than doubled over the past 15 years in the UK. These have risen from 4,144 in 1991 to 8,758 in 2006. [cont...]
23-JAN-2008 | Smoking Ban Flattens Pub Beer Sales
The final quarter of 2007 figures shows it to be the worst of a bad year for pub beer sales with the amount of pints of beer sold during the period leading up to the Christmas holiday season declined by about 10%, as smokers who are not allowed to enjoy a cigarette with their pint in the warmth, drank less to avoid the cold or simply just stayed at home drinking supermarket beers or looking to producing their own with homebrew packs. [cont...]
17-JAN-2008 | Sales of Real Ale is Rising in Supermarkets
Finally, after years of falling sales and many breweries having to close down, beer drinkers are rekindling their tastes for bitter and for the first time in living memory, beer sales have increased in Britain’s supermarkets while those of lager are on the wane. [cont...]
11-JAN-2008 | Red Wine could help Prevent Tooth Decay
Polyphenols, which are present in large amount of fermented seeds and skins that are thrown away after the grapes have been pressed, interfere with the ability of bacteria to contribute to tooth decay and the grape-based chemicals may well hold clues for new ways to lessen the ability of bacteria to cause life threatening systemic infections. [cont...]
06-JAN-2008 | Superjuice Causing Problems for Youths in Winnipeg
Some of the young people who live on the remote Manitoba First Nation in Winnipeg have been taken ill and required hospitalisation after drinking a concoction of a home-brewed drink named ‘superjuice’. [cont...]
02-JAN-2008 | Pint of Beer to Cost £4 a Pint in the New Year
The ringing in of the New Year will be bringing bad news to drinkers with the announcement that a pint of beer could rise to a staggering £4 a pint. [cont...]
29-DEC-2007 | Alcohol Strength in Wine has Risen – Unit Measures to Change
The average bottle of wine has increased from nine per cent in 1978 to 12.5 per cent today, and wine drinkers’ women in particular may be at risk without realising how strong that glass of wine really is. [cont...]
23-DEC-2007 | The Return of Pale Ale to India
Pale Ale is being re-introduced to India for the first time in 60 years. Since the demise of the British rule the golden coloured larger has not been available and now giant breweries Greene King and St Peter’s are set to be in the forefront with the re-launch of the amber liquid. [cont...]
18-DEC-2007 | Ready for Christmas with 24 Million Bottles of Wine
Well, if you are not ready for Christmas yet, Europe’s biggest warehouse in Avonmouth, Bristol certainly is with a stock of 24 million bottles of wine with a value of £165 million. [cont...]
14-DEC-2007 | Jail for Drink Driving Kiefer Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland has started his jail sentence of 48 days after he was arrested and charged for a drink driving conviction. [cont...]
10-DEC-2007 | Beer Stolen at Ireland'’s Oldest Brewery
The theft of 450 kegs of beer consisting of 180 kegs of Guinness stout, 90 kegs of Danish beer Carlsberg and 180 of U.S. lager Budweiser were stolen from the Guinness brewery in Ireland last week. [cont...]
07-DEC-2007 | Red Wine can Help Type 2 Diabetics
Latest research shows that red wine could possibly help type 2 diabetics and age related diseases. US Drug maker Sirtris Pharmaceuticals said “The excitement here is that we’re not talking about red wine anymore. We’re talking about real drugs”. [cont...]
02-DEC-2007 | Beer Sales in Pub Have Slumped
Seven million fewer pints are being sold in British pubs when compared to the beer market in 1979. Supermarket, off-licence and homebrew sales have all increased while beer profit in the pubs have fallen by 49%, indeed beer sales in pubs are at their lowest since the 1930s. [cont...]
29-NOV-2007 | Beer and Women
Women have always played a key role in beer making. Indeed ancient Sumerians have the earliest written record mentioning beer, and in all likelihood it was women who were probably the first to brew beer. [cont...]
25-NOV-2007 | A Pint Of Beer Could Be Good For You!
Some good news this week for beer drinkers from scientists' world wide who are claiming that beer can be good for the body after a strenuous game of football or a round of golf. [cont...]