This 40-year-old American followed a Lenten tradition inspired by 17th century German brewing monks.

Rock band Guns N’ Roses is suing a brewery in the US, accusing it of using the band’s name without permission to sell beer and merchandise.

Doug Pitt is pretty swell. In addition to enduring several decades of being described as “Brad Pitt’s younger brother,” he’s spent a lot of his own life trying to improve the lives of others.

It’s the stuff of nightmares for rugby fans: organisers of the upcoming World Cup in Japan have raised fears that bars and restaurants in host cities could run out of beer during the tournament.

It takes a year like this one to remind us how great we really had it in 2013. Batkid was a hero to San Francisco, our president wasn’t a racist game show host, and we had one of the best television series ever in Breaking Bad, a show that answered the question, what if Hal from Malcolm in the Middle were a meth kingpin in the American southwest?

Diageo, the world’s largest spirits company and owner of Guinness, has announced plans to remove plastic from its beer packaging. In doing so, the British drinks company becomes the latest beverage brand to ditch plastic and move towards using only sustainable packaging.

Craft beer is ultra-cool. Everybody wants to drink it, and many want to brew it. Dutch Moving platform ScanMovers.com, therefore, wanted to answer the question where a craft beer lover feels happiest. They tried to identify The 100 Best Cities in the World to Drink Craft Beer.

There’s an idea that craft beer is dominated by men, mostly with beards, beanies, and an affinity for plaid flannel.

Spend any time looking at beer-focused Instagram accounts and eventually you’ll come across strange glassware; not pint glasses or tulips or glass steins, but vessels that look more like vases or fish bowls. They’re often filled by a so-called “boss pour,” a phenomenon that’s also sometimes called an iceman pour, in which the vessel is full entirely to the brim. It’s relatively new and—to purists—perplexing development.

“Winter is coming” in the form of the final season of the popular HBO series Game of Thrones.