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From ‘crisis beer’ to crowdfunding: How German small brewers are getting creative during the pandemic

Beer gardens are beginning to open up across Germany. Yet In order to make up for the losses they have faced over the past year, brewers have had to take matters into their own hands.

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As Germany swelters, breweries run out of beer bottles

Soaring temperatures in Germany's ongoing summer heatwave have seen so many drinkers reach for a cold beer that breweries are running out of bottles and crates.

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Drinkers get thirstier as beer sales increase

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.

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Breweries 'fixing beer prices for decades'

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.

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Brewers fear beer war

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.

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Sunny weather puts a head on flat beer industry figures

The brewing industry celebrated the ‘Day of German Beer’ on Saturday, while summery weather over the long Easter weekend filled beer gardens across the country.