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Beer
Beer is one of the most popular beverages in Germany. Beer making dates back thousands of years.
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Brexit: How do small breweries cope?
Not only multinational corporations, but also small businesses in Britain depend on sales in other European markets.
Fighting alcohol with taxes in Turkey
The Turkish government is taxing alcohol for religious reasons.
UK brewery for climate action
Brewdog's Make Earth Great Again "protest" beer promises to promote climate change awareness. Can it really?
Japanese getting a taste for German food
Stereotypical images of bread, beer and sausages have begun to fade in Japan as imports of fine wines and meat rise.
'Transit' brings World War II refugees into the present
Christian Petzold's latest film is adapted from a WWII novel – but the refugee story is set in a timeless context.
The dark side of Germany's Carnival
Attention Carnival fans: Be aware that it can be a cruel fate to live in the Rhineland if you are a non-reveler.
Turks no longer able to afford raki
People in Turkey are choosing to brew their own alcoholic beverages to avoid high prices in pubs and clubs.
Turks no longer able to afford raki
People in Turkey are choosing to brew their own alcoholic beverages to avoid high prices in pubs and clubs.
Turkey's home brewing boom
In an effort to skirt Turkey's soaring alcohol costs, many people in the country have been forced to get creative.
150 years at Oktoberfest: a family's story
The Schottenhamel family has been serving guests at Munich's Oktoberfest for 150 years.
Do commercials make kids fat?
Alarmed at rising rates of obesity, the WHO is urging restrictions on ads for sweets, junk food and beer in Germany.
A visit to Berlin Beer Week
German brewing culture is facing a new challenge: the rise of craft beer.
Sausage makers appeal price-fixing fine
What began as a major sausage price-fixing case in 2014 has become an appeal by three companies denying wrongdoing.
Latt-ale: Coffee meets beer
Coffee-beer hybrids are all the rage in a London cafe, whether you like espressos or lattes!
How to make coasters using scrabble tiles
Video tutorial on how to make coasters using scrabble tiles
Euromaxx - Highlights of the Week
Painting with gunpowder, a zero-waste restaurant and an unsual island house.
Beer saves a church
In Brussels, a priest brews beer to renovate his church. And the congregation cheers.
What Germans reveal about themselves through beer
Do you prefer pilsner or pale ale? The dark Imperial Stout? What your beer preference reveals about you.
Germany: Moviegoer uses pepper spray to open beer
In a freak incident, roughly 200 moviegoes had to flee a cinema after a man ruptured his pepper spray can with a beer
Amsterdam bans 'beer bikes'
The ban follows complaints by residents that the bikes blocked roads and encouraged drunk and unruly tourists.
Euromaxx - Highlights of the week
Truck art, the Voynich manuscript, the Volvo Ocean race, a top beer sommelier and a trip to Sicily.
The world's best beer sommelier
World champion beer sommelier Stephan Hilbrandt has a refined sense of taste when it comes to beer.
A success story: 175 years of pilsner beer
Pilsner is the best loved beer in the world and was first brewed in 1842. It was created by a Bavarian in Bohemia.
This ought to be on your gingerbread heart
This message will remind you of Oktoberfest wherever you are.
Malaysia nixes beer fest after Islamist protest
Kuala Lumpur officials have withheld a permit for the annual Better Beer Festival, scheduled to be held in October.
10 Bavarian expressions you need to survive Oktoberfest
Grab your Bavarian-style outfit and brush up on your language skills. The Bavarians speak their own brand of German.
10 Bavarian expressions for Oktoberfest
Even if you speak German, you'll need this local dialect when visiting the Oktoberfest in Munich.
Waiter breaks world record for carrying beer
A German man has carried 29 beer steins to break his own world record.
The Japanese are losing their thirst for beer
Beer consumption in Japan is in decline, possibly because fewer young people are drinking obligatory after-work beers
Hofbräuhaus: Beer brewing tradition
We visit a world-famous tavern.
International Beer Festival in Berlin opens
Since 1997 the German capital has been celebrating the national beverage at the annual Berlin beer festival.
Horns up for heavy metal at Wacken Open Air
Every year the tiny German town of Wacken hosts the biggest heavy metal festival in the world.
Greece: Brewing beer to defy the crisis
Craft beer is getting increasingly popular in the southern eurozone nation of Greece.
New stage, sound and beer pipeline at Wacken Open Air
The tiny German village of Wacken will be welcoming 80,000 metalheads and 160 bands for three days of headbanging.
Euromaxx - Highlights of the Week
Miniature photographer from Vincent Bousserez. Craft beer at the Berlin Beer Week, and the meat Sommelier.
World in Progress: Beer for Eritreans
The only Eritrean brewery hopes to increase sales by increasing exports.
Many ways to open a bottle of beer
Germans can be very inventive when it comes to opening a bottle of beer, even without an opener.
How green is your beer cup?
A German eco group rifled through post-match trash to uncover mountains of used beer cups — and a whole new Bundesliga.
Dutch trucker hits tree, spills beer, keeps on going
German police are investigating why a Dutch truck driver continued on his journey, even after he swiped a tree.
Beginner's guide to Germany's shooting festivals
Germany has strict gun laws and is shy with patriotism - but still celebrates traditional shooting festivals.
Chancellor Angela Merkel asks "What is German?"
What is German? That's the question Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to answer in a commentary for Bild. She suggested nearly 100 things from the cliche (bratwurst) to the controversial (refugee aid).
Taking a tour of Berlin's 'Lobby Planet'
Germany has one of the most opaque lobbying systems in the industrialized world, according to LobbyControl.
Storm brews over beer patent
German beer brewers and beer lovers have protested in Munich against the barley patents of Carlsberg and Heineken.
My picture of the week | Europe must take its fate in its own hands
This photo was taken just after Angela Merkel said Europe cannot fully rely on the US. DW's Mara Bierbach loves the US. She hopes that President Trump will not permanently damage US-international relations.
Turning point in a beer tent?
Dagmar Engel
The German chancellor did not mince words after the G7 fiasco. Is the transatlantic relationship over?
German metal fans build beer pipeline
Wacken Open Air Festival is constructing a 7-kilometer network of pipes to quench its thirsty fans.
Making beer from bread
The English brewery Hambleton Ales uses leftover bread as the basis for a beer it calls Toast.
Keep your eye on the Superb Seven!
KINO Favorites presents the "Magnificent 7": actors poised for great things.
KINO - The Movie Magazine | 26.03.2017
KINO Favorites presents the "Magnificent 7": actors poised for great things.
Picky, warmth-loving beer-hater: Who was Immanuel Kant?
The quirks of the famous philosopher - and his odd relationship to his servant - are the subject of a new graphic novel.
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