Beer

The Beer Factory Festival 2024, held at a old OSY bus depot (Pireos & Ermou) in Athens, runs for four days and offers over 400 beer labels from top Greek and international breweries. Attendees can enjoy street food, lively music, and even traditional folk dancing like the Ikariotikos. With over 35,000 visitors last year, it's a must-attend event for beer lovers.

Greece's premier beer festival, part of the This is Athens - City Festival, is set to take place at Technopolis (100 Pireos), offering a three-day celebration of responsible drinking. Attendees can purchase a 15-euro comprehensive three-day pass, which includes a special collector's tote filled with perks like a recycled beer mug and complimentary tasting tokens.

A dextrin-rich zero-alcohol beer which has been brewed using conventional methods then processed & prepared into a water-soluble beer powder/granulate

Cyprus witnessed a 1.5% surge in total beer sales last year, with a notable 9% increase in exports.

According to data from the Statistical Service of Cyprus (CyStat), the island nation guzzled down a total of 42.13 million liters of beer in 2023, celebrating a spirited rise from 41.49 million in 2022.

All the fun of the Oktoberfest, without the hangover: Germans are swapping traditional beer for non-alcoholic brews, driven by health concerns and the increasing quality of booze-free options.

Beers containing less than 0.5 percent alcohol - the legal limit to be classed as non-alcoholic - are no longer an uncommon sight in the country's famous beer gardens.

Slovenian beer culture is imbued with tradition. Until not long ago there were just two main brands of beer that utterly dominated the market, their influence so deep that they fused with local and regional identities. This is now changing, although not as fast as some would have hoped.

Last year alone, 58 tons of high-quality hops were produced in Bulgaria, which, in addition to local beer production, were also exported abroad, including to the largest beer producer in the EU - Germany, reported the Union of Brewers.

Slovenian microbrewery Bevog and the National Institute of Biology have joined forces to raise awareness of endangered animal species. Bevog is rolling out a limited collection of beer in cans depicting animals at risk of extinction to support research of endangered grassland ecosystems with a donation to the institute.

An innovative method for the study and control of microorganisms in beer has been developed by Bulgarian scientists from the Center for Food Biology (CBH) with the assistance of the Union of Brewers (SPB). The molecular biological method for the microbiological purity of beer has no analogue in Europe and is based on the popular real-time polymerase chain reaction - qPCR.

Beer will not be sold inside stadiums during World Cup matches in Qatar, where alcohol is severely restricted, but FIFA has said that drinking will be allowed in the stadium zone before and after games.

The global body gave first details of beer sales after months of sensitive talks with authorities in the conservative Muslim Gulf state.