Thursday, March 11, 2010

National Beer Day (NBD)

These guys have a Facebook page regarding their movement.  April 7, 1933 was when 3.2 percent alcohol by weight beer is made legal again.  Here is some information on their first annual event:

For those of you living in or around Omaha, Nebraska, there will be a NBD celebration at The New Lift Lounge. They will be celebration the 77th anniversary of April 7th 1933 with $.77 drafts until 8pm. From 8-10pm they will be $1.77 and after 10pm they will be $2.77. That includes all 20 taps. Guinness for $.77!!!!

The New Lift Lounge is located at 4727 S. 96th St., Omaha NE, 68127. Thanks to Terry O'Halloran for setting up this event in Omaha!

If anyone else has information about another NBD celebration going on in other parts of the country, please send us a message so that we can let others know where others will be celebrating NBD!!!!

3 comments:

Clark said...

Is the New Lift Lounge receiving the Nobel Prize in awesome specials?

nickspies said...

I never been there, but at those prices, I'm going to have to visit.

The Godfather of National Beer Day said...

Hey, what's up guys?

My name is Justin Smith and I'm the founder of National Beer Day. I just wanted to thank you guys for spreading the word of the greatest holiday of the year!!

There are a lot of unofficial random beer drinking holidays in the US.

New Beer's Eve - April 6th
National Beer Day - April 7th
National Homebrew Day - FIrst Saturday in May
American Craft Beer Week - Starts on the 3rd Monday in May and goes for a week
International Beer Day - Aug. 5th
National Beer Lover's Day - Sept. 7th
National Drink a Beer Day - Sept. 28th
American Beer Day - Oct. 27th

National Beer Day (April 7th) is the only with with a historically significant date.

April 7th is National Beer Day here in the US. In 1933 during the prohibition era, the Cullen-Harrison Act was signed into law by President Franklin Roosevelt on March 23rd. That law was enacted on April 7th allowing the brewing and sale of beer in the United States again as long as it was < 3.2% (4% ABV). It's said that people waited in line overnight on April 6th outside Milwaukee breweries in order to legally buy beer for the first time in over 13 years. As a result, April 7th is known as National Beer Day and April 6th is called New Beers Eve.


National Beer Days around the world -

March 1st - Iceland
April 6th - England
April 7th - USA
April 23rd - Germany

www.facebook.com/USNationalBeerDay