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Why Do We Celebrate National Beer Day on April 7th?

Posted on April 7, 2022April 7, 2022 by juan

Why is April 7th “National Beer Day”? Well, it’s because it was on that date in 1933 that the production and distribution of beer became once again legal in the United States. On March 14, 1933, Representative Thomas H. Cullen introduced House Resolution 3341, which would amend parts of the Volstead Act, which was the…

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Women in Brewing: Hedwig Sprung, California Bootlegging Homebrewer

Posted on March 12, 2021April 7, 2021 by juan

In the middle of the southern portion of San Francisco Bay in California sits the ghost town of Drawbridge. Now quietly sinking into the mud of the bay’s tidal flats, Drawbridge was once a vibrant little community full of colorful characters. A collection of dwellings that grew up spontaneously around the South Pacific Coast Railway’s…

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St. Arnold of Soissons

Posted on August 14, 2020August 15, 2020 by juan

Today is the Feast Day of St Arnold of Soissons, the Roman Catholic patron saint of hop pickers and Belgian brewers. According to the Revue bibliogaphique belge (v. 1, no. 1, 20 January 1889), he was born in about 1040 at Tiegem, the son of a Flemish nobleman. He embarked on a career of arms,…

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The “American Brewers’ Review”

Posted on September 30, 2019October 7, 2019 by juan

Just the other day, as I was conducting a online search entirely unrelated to beer, I happened on a couple of images depicting the 2nd International Brewer’s Congress held in Chicago in 1911. Following up on them I discovered that they came from the American Brewers’ Review, a trade journal published between 1887 and 1939…

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