Out west, thousands cheered as actress Jean Harlow broke a beer bottle across the first in a line of more than 500 delivery trucks leaving the Los Angeles Brewing Company at 12:01 a.m. To the east ...

Braxton Keith paused a recent concert to confront his audience after he spent a stretch of a song dodging beer cans being pelted at him from the crowd. “I didn’t come here to get beer cans ...