DB Breweries has been ordered to withdraw TV and online ads from its current campaign featuring Arnold Nordmeyer's infamous late-1950s "Black Budget" and the company's DB Export Beer.

It used to be deeply naff, drunk only by teens and maybe your nana; so how did cider get its fizz back to be the drink of the summer, asks Nicky Pellegrino.

The more breweries I visit the more I realise just how good New Zealand beers have become over the years.

Don is the editor of Thirst magazine.

When alcohol industry reps unleash their charm offensives on the corridors of power there is one office they dodge, that of Jim Anderton.

Graham Reid samples the delights of an Irish institution in Dublin.

Many years ago I was sitting with a friend at a pub in Ireland when an American tourist came in and began studying the menu. He approached the bar and asked the barmaid for "a quicky".

As you may have noticed, the daylight hours are lengthening and there are rumours spring is upon us.

I had a wonderful experience recently when I attended a tasting of Hallertau's beers at a rather salubrious Mt Eden hostelry.

DB Breweries has cautioned a small Tauranga church over a sign it says is similar to its Tui "Yeah Right" billboards.

It's a magic brew, says Joelle Thomson.

A new German beer, which incorporates the potentially derogatory name of an Austrian town, has just been given full European Union approval.

Beth Park reports on the hidden health benefits of a beer.

Megan Singleton's bikini-clad, spike-heeled stereotype of beer brewesses is shattered.