National Beer Day 2019
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Nowadays I don't imbibe much to speak of. I will have a beer if it is offered socially but the end of my drug culture days pretty much marked the end of my beer drinking as well.
National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7.
This is the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act which legalized the sale in the United States of beer with an alcohol content of 3.2% was enacted after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933.
This led to the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition being repealed on December 5, 1933, with ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which ended prohibition.
April 6, the day prior to National Beer Day, is commonly referred to as New Beer's Eve.
National Beer Day was first created in 2009 by one Justin Smith of Richmond, Virginia who was instigated by a friend of his and the whole mess centers around a social media campaign and ending up being recognized by Virginia politicians and pretty much unofficial recognition by the rest of us.
As for me ... I can't say I won't ever down another one it's just not that frequent indulgence it once was.