Eat well, drink well, and solve a hilarious murder of a brewmaster. The Basle microbrewery Unser Bier is staging a murder mystery comedy show on 10th October 2015.

Diageo recently invested EUR 169 million in the world-famous home of Guinness at St James’s Gate in Dublin, Ireland. To enhance the production of Guinness Flavour Extract (GFE), which is exported all over the world to enable the local production of Guinness, Project Phoenix involved the implementation of new raw material intake and handling systems, a new brewhouse, a new cold process area as well as modifications to the existing cold process area to integrate the existing plant with new, improved utilities and expanded capacity.

If all goes according to plan, De Halve Maan brewery will start this autumn with the construction of a beer pipeline under Bruges. The craft brewer hopes to finance part of the EUR 1 million project through crowdfunding.

Like in neighbouring Germany, beer consumption in Belgium continues to decline. In the first five months of this year, the drop was 5 percent over the same period last year, the Belgian Brewers’ association reported on 19 June 2015. “This is the strongest decline in the past 15 years”, the association told local media. Fortunately, exports are compensating for some of the decline at home.

Gleneagles – what a place for a corporate jolly. But soon no more. Diageo, the world’s number one drinks group, that is under pressure to lift sales and profits, is close to agreeing the sale of its luxury Gleneagles hotel and golf resort in Scotland, media reported on 26 June 2015.

The beer economist Germain Hansmaennel compiled the ranking of the world’s top 40 brewing groups which control 82.5 percent of global beer production.

The Lindemans brewery, famous for its fruit beers and geuzes, has seen demand for its beers rise sharply in recent years and has doubled its capacity to 170,000 hl and staff to 32. At the end of Aril 2015 the new packaging hall was officially opened.

The main areas for growing spring barley in Europe were able to start vegetation under favorable conditions. In Central Europe, yield losses due to drought can be expected, but the supply is still supposed to be good.

Now that’s desperate, that’s truly pathetic. Are the chattering classes in the financial world so anxious for a Big Deal in the brewing industry that they eagerly lap up even the most outlandish of speculations?

Novozymes has signed a deal with Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality to acquire a 140,000 square meter site in Lyngby in order to build a new campus dedicated to research and business development. The site is located 13 kilometers north of Copenhagen and seven kilometers from its headquarters in Bagsværd. As part of the campus construction, Novozymes will also establish a learning center where students and visitors alike are invited to discover and learn about nature and biology. The learning center will include teaching laboratories, a small cinema and a cafe, and will function as a link to the research environment in Lyngby.