World's beer fans meet for Oktoberfest
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International squads of beer drinkers, leather-clad Bavarians and devotees of excess young and old have converged in Munich for the start of the planet's biggest beer festival, the Oktoberfest.
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Japan's baseball players meet fans in Tokyo to try to boost support for a strike - the first in the country's history.
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Germans are losing their taste for beer, according to the German brewery association.
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MUNICH, Germany  - The world's biggest beer  festival, the Munich Oktoberfest, has broken with tradition to  allow the sale of mulled wine to warm up drinkers during an  unusually cold spell.
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With the traditional cry of O'zapft is! _ It's tapped! _ Munich's mayor cracked a barrel of Bavarian beer at noon Saturday, opening the southern city's 171st Oktoberfest festival for a crowd of some 500,000. ...
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Is the world ready for an organic soft drink brewed in Germany?
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Alcoa and Pittsburgh Brewing are teaming up on aluminum beer bottles.
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Americans in Seoul have a second chance to experience a South Korean-flavored version of Oktoberfest, the world-famous, beer-soaked German festival.
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Two of the world's largest brewers - Belgium's Inbev and Holland's Heineken - announce new takeovers in Germany and Russia respectively.
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Miller Brewing Co. is telling United Auto Workers members to think union when they have a beer. The UAW endorses the pitch for the union-made beer.
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ATLANTA -- Anheuser-Busch Cos. was dethroned as the King of Beers as US drinkers switched to imports. The brewer's best shot at regaining the crown rests on distributing those rivals' beers in its home market.
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MUNICH, Germany  - International squads of beer drinkers, leather-clad Bavarians and devotees of excess young and old converged in Munich on Saturday for the start of the planet's biggest beer ...
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Drunken revellers at the world's biggest beer festival this year can purchase a stiff linguistic pick-me-up for when their brains get addled - a beer- and mustard-proof guide to Bavarian slang.
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RIO DE JANEIRO -- At mid-morning last Sunday, a group of neighbors met at a corner bar in one of Rio's southern, middle-class neighborhoods. They drank beer and watched newcomers arrive steadily until the group, some two hours later, numbered more than 6,000.
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International squads of beer drinkers, leather-clad Bavarians and devotees of excess young and old converged in Munich on Saturday for the start of the planet's biggest beer festival, the Oktoberfest.
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Anheuser-Busch Cos. Inc. is no longer the world&#39;s largest brewer based on volume, after shareholders of Belgium&#39;s Interbrew and Brazil&#39;s AmBev approved a $9.
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WOLFSBURG, Germany -- On the surface, globalization is about as popular in Germany as cheap imported beer.