Alcohol

The sound of clinking glass fills the room as a monk inspects one of hundreds of beer bottles passing along the production line at Andechs monastery in Bavaria. 

Bulgaria will host in parallel the 40th World Congress of Vine and Wine and the 15th General Assembly of the International Organisation of Vine and Wine (OIV) next year, the country's Agriculture Ministry has announced.

The decision was taken by a vote of OIV member states at a meeting of the organisation's Executive Committee in Paris on Saturday.

If this does’t sound like the best job in the world then we really don’t know which one is! Florida company ‘World of Beer’ is seeking three people willing to spend 4 months traveling all around the world and taste as many beers as they can!

Dry January seems to be the buzzing trend nowadays. Abstaining from alcohol for the whole month of January appeals to many, especially to those who overdid the feasting and boozing during the festive season before New Year's. Dry January, as a term, was registered in 2014 in the United Kingdom by Alcohol Concern, an advocacy group that initiated the first campaign in January 2013.

Britons need to drink less as any alcohol consumption increases the risk of cancer and other diseases, the government's health chiefs said in the first new guidelines issued for 20 years which were denounced by critics as "nanny state" scaremongering. 

Serbian opposition parties have slated the Defence Minister, Bratislav Gasic, for allowing a local authority to use soldiers to serve alcoholic drinks - rakija [fruit brandy] and boiled wine - at a pop concert in the minister's home town of Krusevac on December 31.

The event was a concert by the popular folk singer Svetlana "Ceca" Raznatovic.

The City of Belgrade has decided to lift a ban on sale of alcoholic beverages, including beer, and pyrotechnics from 22:00 until 06:00 CET.

This ban applied to stores and craft businesses. Councilors on Monday adopted the changes that will come into effect once they are published in the City of Belgrade Official Gazette in a week's time.

Four young men have died and other two are in critical conditions after drinking counterfeit alcohol during celebrations, media outlets report.

Police and doctors confirm alcohol poisoning was the most likely cause of the incident which took place in a neighborhood of Yakoruda, a town in the Rhodope Mountains.

Crafted on the small island of Chios, Greece, FOS Mastiha is taking the world by storm. And the clear spirit made from the mastic resin of the “crying trees” of Chios, the herbal digestif is found to be ideal for mixed drinks. Miami spirits producer Ambrosia group launched the drink in its new form, designed to be used in cocktails.

The Kamenitza brewery in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv will be demolished as the production will be relocated at the site of Astika brewery in the city of Haskovo.

Both breweries are owned by Molson Coors Brewing Company.

When the construction of the Kamenitza brewery started back in 1881, the location of the factory was firmly outside the bounds of the city.