Thousands of litres of beer were spilled on a motorway near Duisburg in western Germany on Monday night, when a truck carrying several hundred crates of Bitburger toppled over, shutting the Autobahn.
Burglars have stolen 300,000 litres of beer from a warehouse in western Germany, police reported on Tuesday - the equivalent of €2.1 million worth of the nation's favourite drink.
Every country has its fair share of weird regulations, but some of the ones in Germany border on the bizarre and irrational. The Local List takes a look at Germany's most quirky and obscure laws.
German beer is famous for containing just four ingredients under the beer purity law, but it appears some brands have picked up an unwelcome fifth ingredient - plastic particles.
A planned taxpayer-funded project in western Germany to get unemployed alcoholics and drug addicts cleaning streets has sparked controversy by offering those who take part beer as part of their compensation.
German beer sales have sunk to their lowest level since reunification almost 25 years ago, as drinkers increasingly turn to mixed drinks and non-alcoholic beers.
UPDATE: Germany fined some of its biggest breweries €106.5 million on Monday for price fixing - after Becks brewer Anheuser-Busch struck a deal to get off in return for information on its competitors.
German growers are pushing into the craft beer market with new hops boasting exotic flavours that buck the trend of strong old favourites as AFP's Carolyn Beeler discovers.
Germany’s love of beer shows no sign of abating with the country’s breweries celebrating booming sales over the summer months, figures released on Wednesday showed.
Munich hospitals treat a drinker every 10 minutes during Oktoberfest. This time of year the city's accident and emergency departments become, for some, just another tent at the festival.
The world's biggest beer festival opens in Munich on Saturday. Running until October 6th, it is expected to attract more than six million visitors, drinking seven million litres of beer and eating 116 oxen.
Hotels in Munich are getting ready to cash in on the world’s biggest beer festival, the Oktoberfest, which starts next Saturday. The Local has found some room prices up by 500 percent.
Germany's breweries have allegedly been conspiring to fix beer prices for the past 20 years in a scandal more widespread than initially thought, a report has revealed. They could now face hundreds of millions of euros in fines.
A centuries-old Bavarian castle is home to one of several breweries making unique artisanal beers in a bid to carve out a niche in the bitter fight for Germany's shrinking market.
Germany's beer industry sees its glass half empty this year, with terrible sales during the first half of the year creating what have been described as 'landslide losses'.
Oktoberfest publicans are hiking up beer prices again this year – but while they are bubbling up towards the unspoken limit of €10 for a litre <i>Maß</i>, nobody has yet dared exceed it.
A group of brewers has raised alarm that so-called 'fracking' for natural gas could jeopardize the legendary purity of German beer by contaminating the country's water supplies.
Stiff market competition and dwindling consumption are pushing German breweries and shops to cut beer prices by up to half, it was reported on Friday. Industry experts are worried a price war could even affect quality of the amber brew.
Beer is still brewed in Germany according to centuries-old purity laws, but despite this German beer often contains arsenic, a study published on Sunday revealed.
Competition regulators are investigating more than a dozen large German breweries suspected of illegally fixing prices on popular beers such as Jever, Becks, Warsteiner and Erdinger, it emerged over the weekend.
