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A Zimbabwean Water Resources Minister stunned fellow legislators when he blamed mermaids for two incomplete water dam projects.

Captain Lawrence Brewery proprietor Scott Vaccaro is joined by family and area elected officials at ribbon cutting ceremony of company's new Elmsford location.

The Mallard Pub in Worksop has been nominated North Notts CAMRA's Pub of the Year.

THERE'S a beer festival in Ludlow to bring some cheer at one of the most miserable times of the year.

Damian Brown, left, and Chris Gallant crisscross Manhattan and the Bronx delivering their signature brew, The Bronx Pale Ale.

If you smelled bacon last week in LoDo, you weren't dreaming. The Blue Moon Brewing Company @ the Sandlot was adding it to a new beer.

In a world where Spike Lee has his own variety of Absolut and Will Ferrell devotedly shills for Old Milwaukee , it's important to point out when the intersection of celebrities and booze actually results in something encouraging.

I, like many fellow members of the beer appreciation society, would be loathe to include any 'chain pub' in my top ten.

Cleveland, OH -- The cheapest beer on the shelf: If it lacks that flavor or the punch you're looking for, an Ohio entrepreneur says she invented the fix for it.

Less people may be talking about Will Ferrell Old Milwaukee beer Super Bowl ad than the other commercials, but that's only because it only aired in Nebraska.

People try a sample of Keegan Ale's Mother's Milk beer during the second annual International Beer Expo at the Meadowlands Exposition Center.

The dogs of Hollywood have tugged on the hearts of America. First it was Uggie in The Artist and now on Super Bowl Sunday it is Weego, the beer fetching hound in Rescue Dog .

Plenty of reporters in the past week have covered the glitz and swank of the Super Bowl's nighttime scene -- the Playboy and ESPN bashes, for instance, and the celebrity parties and club-hopping. But since the only reason I'm ever awake at 1 a.m. is to cuddle my sleep-averse infant son, I decided to cover the other end of the day: the dawn.

ORGANISERS of the eighth Pendle Beer Festival are raising a toast to the thousands of real ale drinkers who made it the best yet.

There's a hidden corner of the City by the Bay where rusted cranes used to build WWII battleships loom over dilapidated artist studios, where working-class fishermen bob up against first-class ocean liners docked for repair.

ADVANCE FOR MONDAY, FEB. 6- In a photo from Jan. 26, 2012, Kaleb Longworth, assistant brewer/distiller, uses a saccharometer to check the percentage of sugar in wort at the Northern United Brewing Company on Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City, Mich.

His family poured almost $500,000 into the old railroad depot off Eighth Street in Traverse City, and in February he'll open the Filling Station Microbrewery.

A new brewery is on the scene in Eugene. Falling Sky Brewing opened quietly in late January.

Warning: A new advertising campaign will warn that drinking two large glasses of wine a day triples the risk of mouth cancer Drinking two large glasses of wine or two strong pints of beer a day triples the risk of developing mouth cancer, according to a new Government campaign.

I tweaked this one a bit, but did not change one very special ingredient: smoked paprika.A Thinking that a small spice jar of smoked paprika would be really expensive, I was surprised to see the Badia brand for $1.69 at ShopRite in Clinton .