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DB ordered to pull 'Black Budget' beer ads

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.

Bearing fruit

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.

A Cock & Bull story

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

Beer created by the hand of God's disciples

Don is the editor of <i>Thirst</i> magazine.

Make mine a pint of sauv bitter

Hopping back in favour

As long as I can see the light ... beer

There is a school of thought that says that low-alcohol and light beer isn't really beer at all and, in all honesty, I would tend to subscribe to that view, more often than not.

Name claim in dispute

Christchurch earthquake cuts beer supply

It's a bitter blow as Cantabrians toiling to clean up after Saturday's quake now face a potential shortage of Canterbury Draught beer.

Award winning beer spawned by poker

5pc limit blow for alcopop makers

Go west, young man, to seek new beer

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

Dark days for black stuff force stout defence

Church warned over 'Yeah Right' sign

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

Hopping mad: Epic Beer

It's a magic brew, says Joelle Thomson.

EU approves sale of F***ing beer

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