Czech breweries have switched from barrels to bottles and cans after demand for draught went down the drain as pubs in the world’s most beer-loving nation closed amid the Covid-19 pandemic, experts said Wednesday.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit partially vacated a ruling in favor of Jack Daniel’s in a dispute with a dog toy company that produced a chew toy that looked like a bottle of Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Black Label Tennessee Whiskey, finding the whiskey company’s trade dress and bottle design were entitled to trademark protection, but the dog toy company used the design to convey a humorous message, which was protected by the First Amendment.
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Hard-drinking Australians were told Tuesday to limit themselves to buying just 12 bottles of wine and two cases of beer a day as a coronavirus lockdown saw panic buying of alcohol.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas upheld a ruling in favor of the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s decision to cancel a bar’s alcoholic beverage permit based on the presence of “ficheras,” who are women that sit with male customers at bars, get them to buy a drink for an inflated price, and receive a ticket or cash from the bar for each drink they help sell.
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A David-versus-Goliath beer industry fight will go to trial after a federal judge ruled a jury must decide whether MillerCoors violated San Diego brewer Stone Brewing’s trademark during a marketing campaign makeover.
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As hospitals and nursing homes desperately search for hand sanitizer during the coronavirus outbreak, federal regulators are preventing ethanol producers from providing millions of gallons of alcohol that could be transformed into germ-killing potions.
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Standing over the still body of an intubated 5-year-old boy wearing nothing but a plastic diaper, an Iranian health care worker in a hazmat suit and mask begged the public for just one thing: Stop drinking industrial alcohol over fears about the new coronavirus
Read morePour a drink. Or two, or three — alcohol sales are skyrocketing in New York, the epicenter of the U.S. pandemic, where liquor stores have been deemed “essential” even as most businesses closed.
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Hong Kong will ban all nonresidents from entering the city beginning at midnight Tuesday evening to fight the coronavirus, its leader said, as she unveiled plans to stop restaurants and bars serving alcohol.
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Russia could lift an unpopular ban on alcohol sales online, a top official said Wednesday, as the public are being encouraged to stay at home during the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreNew research released Sunday finds that drivers with blood alcohol concentrations below the legal limit still accounted for 15% of all alcohol-involved crash deaths in the U.S., suggesting that the current limit still allows for impaired driving.
Read moreA federal court in Illinois dismissed free speech and privacy claims brought by two former police officers who were fired after their conversation about how to drink alcohol and sleep on the job was unintentionally broadcast over a state police radio channel and recorded. The conversation also included racist remarks about black coworkers.
Read moreA bartender shot by an off-duty police officer – who was attempting to load an already-loaded firearm while intoxicated – cannot pursue her due process claims against the City and County of Honolulu, the Ninth Circuit ruled, rejecting her argument that the municipality exhibited deliberate indifference in violation of her rights.
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Michigan argued before the Sixth Circuit on Thursday that a law preventing out-of-state wine merchants from making direct shipments to its residents does not violate the U.S. Constitution’s commerce clause.
Read morePreviously convicted felon Francisco Alvarado Felix, 33, of Hesperia, Calif., was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison for threatening a restaurant manager with an assault rifle after employees refused to sell him alcohol, federal prosecutors said.
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Drink a Corona beer to fortify your prayers or get ready for the arrival of the messiah: rabbis in Israel have offered an array of guidance on responding to coronavirus.
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In his most recent dispatch, Courthouse News’ western bureau chief plumbs the depth of fruity beer blasphemy.
Read moreA student failed to state a claim for negligence against York College of Pennsylvania relating to serious injuries she sustained when she fell from a balcony after consuming alcohol as a minor at a sorority mixer party, a federal court in the state ruled. The student has not alleged that she was coerced into drinking or manipulated into jumping off the balcony.
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In Belgium, a country where beer is the culinary king, its brewing also creates magic for mushrooms.
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Burglars stole dozens of bottles of vintage wine worth some 200,000 euros from a Michelin-starred restaurant in Copenhagen overnight, the owners said Monday.
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