The Drinks Retailing Awards are the first major drinks event of each year in the UK, and it was the major supermarkets who took home the majority of the top prizes at this week’s award ceremony. London’s famous and luxurious five star Dorchester Hotel played host to the evening of celebration, but it was those at the budget end of the drinks market who were picking up the accolades.

The Wizards and Witches Beer Festival, organised by Rock Star Beer Festivals, is described as a “wizarding world of wonders complete with magic, debauchery and mischief,” according to its Facebook event.

A beer spa has opened up in Iceland, apparently the country’s first — as if people needed another reason to want to go to Iceland.

If you’re planning a trip where you can drink endless beer and pay less for it than you would for water, your dream destination is to the best beer-drinking location in the world: Prague in the Czech Republic.

Last year Panic! A the Disco released one of the best albums of 2018 full of bops and bangers in the shape of Pray For The Wicked. This year the band has collaborated with a local brewery in New Jersey to produce the limited-edition IPA.

There’s a saying that goes, “If it sounds crazy but it works, it’s not crazy.” 

LG’s new beer-making machine is targeted at brew enthusiasts, but don’t expect it to serve you up a glass in an instant. 

Packing beer in your checked luggage is the way to go as there’s no way you’ll get that bottle or can through security in your carry-on, unless you’ve poured it into a collection of 3-ounce shampoo bottles. 

Genesee Brewing in New York State has built a giant, 27ft Christmas tree which is made out of 520 empty beer kegs and adorned with 20,000 lights, marking the fifth consecutive year that the brewer has constructed its ‘keg tree’.

If boozin’ and flyin’ are two things you’ve always wanted to mix, then you’ll love BrewDog’s new beer airline!