Tuned Pale Ale is a product by designer Matt Braun. There's a musical scale down the side of each bottle.

What? You can stock these? Beer aisles across the border offer a completely different experience to The Beer Store.

New Brunswick's microbreweries are lining up to buy the first crop from the province's largest organic hops farm.

One taster after trying number seven. a Sure, a mixture of ice cream and beer sounds like a vomit-inducing concoction.

John Huff/Staff photographer Paul Davis pours a pint of his German-style beer at the Barley Pub in Dover Thursday.

" A rash of alcohol-related activity has seized Northeast Mississippi in the past year with nearly two dozen communities debating spirits or brew.

Cocktail parties are back in fashion, with the swank, swaggering characters on AMC's "Mad Men" forging a return to the old school and reminding people how to celebrate with style.

A former sea urchin researcher and two-time New Zealand poker champion has big plans to grow his micro-brewed beer label, which took out an industry award last week.

When the air turns crisp and carries the sound of polka music and the aroma of brats sizzling on the grill, it can only mean that Oktoberfest has arrived.

The late 1970s was not an easy time to find a good bottle of suds in America. In an age dominated by a few mass-produced, plain American lagers, why wasn't there a map showing where someone could get a better-tasting brew, beer-lover Mike Laur wondered.

Theme for the evening was a blending of Budweiser products with fine foods. The gourmet meal started with a chef's selection of cheese, biscuits and fresh berries.

A young man peered through the mist, catching the soft green patina of The Statue of Liberty.

Picasso had paint. Andrew Marshall has hops and barley. The cofounder of what is Temecula's only licensed brewery, Marshall finds a creative outlet in beer making.

One of the reasons I love New York is for the takeout. Cuisine from virtually any nation, just a phone call away, at almost any hour.

One of the world's largest drinks' manufacturers is to consider backing an end to the sale of alcohol "below cost" in a move set to re-ignite the debate on links between price and problem drinking.

Rains washed out the Wilson County Fair one night last week, a first in that wonderful carnival's history.

Remnants of Prohibition continue to dog those who enjoy alcoholic beverages. Perhaps in no way more obvious to the general public than the three-tier distribution system , which was established to keep producers separate from distributors separate from retailers separate from customers.

A BEER Festival is being planned at the Kings Head in Hursley from Saturday, August 28 to Monday, August 30.

Head brewer David Holmes said that the weather had helped it be a 'great year for beer' Photo: CORBIS Manager at Britain's oldest brewers, Shepherd Neame, say the wettest July on record and a drizzly August helped produce a better quality of hops.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Communities and also in Housing Friday 27th August 2010 - 2:07pm Government under attack over pubs policy as Emmerdale's 'Woolpack' closes The closure of a soap opera pub could be avoided if the Government had not scrapped plans for community ownership, a spokesman for Camra said today.