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The German military says it has found a solution for an unusual logistics problem its troops in Afghanistan face: a glut of beer.

The pub industry has seen a rapid decline over the past year of lockdowns, with some 2,500 pubs shutting down for good in 2020.

The UK continues its dizzying vacillation on the vaccine passport programme, with Britons not now needing papers to enjoy the pub.

A father who died from cancer six years ago left his son $10 to pay for his first beer when he turned 21 years old.

Wales’s First Minister Mark Drakeford has banned pubs and other hospitality venues from selling alcohol and subjected them to a 6 pm curfew. The Labour politician is also considering travel restrictions in and out of the country.

Hospitality organisations have criticised the British government’s decision to ban pubs from selling takeaway alcohol during the upcoming restrictions, despite being allowed to do so in the first lockdown.

The owner said: “I thought of the idiots responsible for this and said ‘F***ing bell ends!’ Then the idea came to me.”

103-year-old Jennie Stejna defied the odds to beat the novel coronavirus on May 13 and treated herself to a victory bottle of Bud Light in celebration.

As the coronavirus lockdown eases across Australia, one brewer decided Wednesday the best way to get things moving again in the outback was to send free beer for pubs to disperse amongst their parched patrons. Lots of it.

As Australia gradually emerges from its successful coronavirus lockdown, government priorities have been set. One of those began Friday with the urgent dispatch of beer kegs to remote outback pubs.

WERNECK, Germany (AP) – The Werneck Brewery has survived a lot: world wars, economic crises and decades of declining beer consumption. But after 400 years in existence it has finally met a challenge it can’t overcome: the coronavirus outbreak.

A 93-year-old woman made a plea for an essential supply of beer while she was on lockdown in her Pennsylvania home.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Champagne corks no longer pop at Dubai’s infamous alcohol-soaked brunches. The blaring flat-screen televisions stand silent in the sheikhdom’s sports bars. And the city-state’s pubs have shrink-wrapped their now-idle beer taps.

A Wisconsin man is finding a unique way to connect with his neighbor in an age of social distancing — by sharing a beer with him via a remote-controlled car.

Hard-drinking Australians were given strict warnings Tuesday to cut down on their booze intake with new national limits set to restrict buyers to 12 bottles of wine and two cases of beer per person, per day as part of a coronavirus lockdown.

Australians face the grim prospect of running out of beer in a matter of weeks unless the amber fluid is classified as “essential” to life and breweries are exempted from a range of closures Down Under due to the Chinese coronavirus epidemic.

A 90-year-old London man, who is self-isolating during the coronavirus outbreak, was delivered a keg of his favourite beer by his local pub.

The Prime Minister said: “We are taking away the ancient, inalienable right of free-born people of the United Kingdom to go to the pub. And I can understand how people feel about that.”

A woman in St. Paul, Minnesota, got the surprise of her life after she learned her long-lost dog was in Bradenton, Florida. 

A brewery in Bradenton, Florida, is using special beer cans to help adoptable dogs find their forever homes. 

Hours before he passed away, Norbert Schemm spent his last evening having a drink with his three sons from his hospital bed.

The prices of bicycles, many imported from China, are up. Prices are down for phones, appliances, computers, clothing, and televisions.

A Northern California brewery that released a themed beer using profane language against the state’s largest utility company is apologizing after receiving backlash from Bay Area residents.

It’s no secret that Dolphins fans are not getting bang for their buck this year, but this is ridiculous.

An Iowa State Cyclones fan who asked for beer money on national television is making a huge difference with the funds he received.

Hundreds of thousands of rugby fans heading to Japan for the 2019 Rugby World Cup which kicks off Saturday have been warned to brace for their worst possible nightmare; a beer shortage in the host nation.

The Malaysian government warned the country’s breweries on Sunday not to sell or produce alcohol-free beer on the grounds that it “confuses Muslims” about whether they can drink it.

May 23 (UPI) — Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers couldn’t compete with teammate and offensive lineman David Bakhtiari in a beer-chugging competition during Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals.

Although this happened some two weeks ago, the president is obviously eager to refocus everyone on the awkwardness of this moment, on Warren’s lack of authenticity.

A Democrat congressman is already stirring up trouble just days into his first term on Capitol Hill, attempting to bring a six-pack of beer onto the House floor on Friday afternoon.

In a subtle jab at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said it is policies not social media that gain supporters.

The latest data from the Labor Department shows that the prices of many things subject to Trump’s tariffs are actually falling.

Prices on everything from trucks to soup keep defying predictions that Trump’s tariffs would raise be a tax on consumers.

Michelle Malkin mocked a New York Times report highlighting a 1985 incident in which Brett Kavanaugh allegedly threw ice in a bar altercation.

The Democrats’ current position on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh is: We cannot have someone addicted to beer on our highest court! What if a foreign power were to ply him with this nectar in a can? Talk about taking control of our government! Suppose they throw in a case of Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier?

Beer maker Anheuser-Busch has announced plans to send 300,000 cans of fresh water to the expected victims of Hurricane Florence.