April 7th – each year, even – is National Beer Day, celebrating the repeal of prohibition. It’s also Session Beer Day, celebrating and encouraging the creation of more lower alcohol beers. There’s not much more I can say about either that I haven’t already said last year, in 2012, or 2011. Cheers to beer. Session…
Twitter and facebook tell me today, November 8, 2013, is the third annual International Stout Day. I’m trying to work up some enthusiasm. It’s not that I don’t love stout. Quite the opposite. A top notch imperial stout has long been my favorite style. If there’s a coffee stout on tap or on the shelf,…
Craft beer fans never need an excuse to pour a pint of the good stuff, but we never turn one down either. Started in 2009 by Justin Smith of Richmond, Virginia and Mike Connolly of Liverpool, England, National Beer Day is a celebration of the repeal of prohibition in America, 80 years ago today. It’s…
Sure, Sunday is Easter, but for craft beer fans the time to celebrate comes a day early. April 7, 2012 is National Beer Day, 79 years to the day since the Cullen-Harrison Act took effect and repealed prohibition in America. Reportedly, people lined up at breweries in Milwaukee the night before in anticipation of being…
No, we’re not making this up. Would we ever pull a prank on the good readers of Growler Fills? According to co-founders Justin Smith and Mike Connolly, National Beer Day is a celebration of the end of Prohibition: “In 1933 during the prohibition era, the Cullen-Harrison Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt…