At least 50,000 beer lovers annually travel from around the world to attend the Oregon Brewers Festival, which is considered one of the nation's longest-running and best-loved craft beer events.

In previous years, festival goers could either consume the beer in glass beer mugs or plastic cups. This year, instead, reusable cups must be purchased, for 50c, as a replacement for the single ...

Plastic bottles have been housing Japanese wine and sake since 2010, but this week’s announcement is the first time the country’s brewers are using plastic for beer.

The glasses, which were small plastic mugs, were too small, he said. Saturday was the first year at Festival Park for the Top of the Hops Beer Festival presented by Leinenkugel Brewing Co.

A new study of 24 popular German beer brands discovered traces of the plastic, which could have come from machinery, been in the bottles prior to filling, or simply been present in the water.

While you can't see the plastic in your beer, Mason says it's in the tap water used to produce your beer. It's not just microbrews, but every kind of beer brewed along the Great Lakes.

Beer company Carlsberg has created what it believes is a world-first – a six-pack held together by glue. The design is set to reduce the company’s use of plastic packaging by more than 75 percent.

You know those hard plastic beer can holders? I have 147 of them. I counted. They’re an array of colors — black, brown, silver, red, purple, yellow, pink, blue, three shades of green &m… ...

Plastic trash less than 5 millimeters long is in the things we eat and drink, and the air we breathe. Scientists are just beginning to study where it comes from and how it might affect our health.

PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Oregon Brewers Festival teamed up with Agilyx, a world leader in chemical recycling of post-consumer plastics, to recycle festival mugs used during ...