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Like the Brookston Beer Bulletin, but also including everything else I'm obsessed with.

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Holidays 5.22

  • Buy-A-Musical Instrument Day
  • Canadian Immigrants’ Day
  • Emergency Medical Services for Children Day [4th Wednesday]
  • Harvey Milk Day (California)
  • International Day For Biological Diversity (UN)
  • Jumping Frog Jubilee Day (Angel’s Camp, California)
  • National Maritime Day
  • National Wig Out Day
  • Ragnar Lodbrok (Viking)
  • Unity Day (Yemen)
  • Vanilla Pudding Day

Holidays 5.21

  • Anastenarides Feast (Ancient Greek festival of dancing barefoot on hot coals)
  • Circassian Day of Mourning
  • End of the World Day 2011
  • Feast of the Triple Scoop
  • Festival of Demeter (Greek Barley Mother Goddess)
  • Hummel Day
  • Independence Day (Montenegro; from Serbia, 2006)
  • “I Need A Patch For That” Day
  • International Jazz Day
  • National Memo Day
  • National Waitstaff Day
  • Red Cross Day
  • Sanja Matsuri begins (Tokyo, Japan)
  • Strawberries and Cream Day
  • Waldchestag (Forest Day) [Tuesday after Whitsunday]
  • World Day For Cultural Diversity

Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
 Alexander Pope (May 21, 1688-1744)

Holidays 5.20

  • Be A Millionaire Day
  • Beating of the Bounds (Old England)
  • Blue Jeans Day
  • Eliza Doolittle Day
  • Emancipation Day (Florida)
  • European Maritime Day (EU)
  • Go Fly A Kite With the Kids Day
  • Independence Day (Cuba; from US, 1902)
  • Independence Day (East Timor; internationally recognized, 2002)
  • Indonesian Awakening Day
  • International Sweet Tooth Fairy Day
  • Lafayette Day (Massachusetts)
  • Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)
  • Mecklenburg Day (NC)
  • Mjollnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)
  • National Day of Hatred (Cambodia)
  • Pick Strawberries Day
  • Quiche Lorraine Day
  • Victoria Day (Canada) [3rd Monday]
  • Weights and Measures Day
  • World Meteorology Day

Holidays 5.19

  • Circus Day
  • Dark Day (New England)
  • Devil’s Food Cake Day
  • Greek Genocide Remembrance Day
  • I Am An American Day [3rd Sunday]
  • International Chicken Flying Meet
  • Kirkland’s Warbler Day
  • Malcolm X Day (US)
  • May Ray Day
  • My Other Mother’s Day [3rd Sunday]
  • National Memo Day
  • Plant Something Day
  • Stepmother’s Day [3rd Sunday]
  • Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
  • Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)

Holidays 5.18

  • Apollon Day (Old Roman Festival to Apollo, God of Music, Poetry & Sunlight)
  • Armed Forces Day (US) [3rd Saturday]
  • Black Watch Day
  • Cheese Souffle Day
  • Do Dah Day (Alabama) [3rd Saturday]
  • Hispanic Family Day
  • HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
  • Independence Day (Somaliland; from Somalia, 1991; unrecognized)
  • International Museum Day
  • Las Piedras Day (Uruguay)
  • Magtymguly Day (a.k.a. Revival, Unity & Poetry Day; Turkmenistan)
  • National Tenant’s Day
  • No Dirty Dishes Day
  • Revival & Unity Day (Turkmenistan)
  • Rooster Day
  • Send An Electronic Greeting Card Day
  • St. Theodotus’ Day (patron saint of innkeepers)
  • Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
  • Visit Your Relatives Day
  • World AIDs Vaccine Day
  • World Goodwill Day

Holidays 5.17

  • Bike-to-Work Day (US) [3rd Friday]
  • Cherry Cobbler Day
  • Constitution Day (Norway; from Denmark, 1814)
  • Dea Dia (Goddess of the Cosmos)
  • Dia das Letras Galegas (Spain)
  • Endangered Species Day
  • Famine Memorial Day (Ireland)
  • Galacian Literature Day
  • I-Am-An-American Day
  • International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia
  • Mike the Headless Chicken Festival begins (Fruita, Colorado)
  • NASCAR Day
  • National Cyber Safety Awareness Day
  • National Defense Transportation Day [3rd Friday]
  • Pack Rat Day
  • Peasant Day (a.k.a. Agrarian Reform; Cuba)
  • Rubber Band Day
  • Tell An Umpire “I Love Your Outfit” Day
  • Uff Da Day (North Dakota)
  • Watch A Baby Fall Asleep Day
  • World Hypertension Day
  • World Information Society Day (UN)
  • World Telecommunication Day (UN)

Holidays 5.16

  • Biographer’s Day
  • Coquilles St. Jacques Day
  • Love A Tree Day
  • Middlesex Day (UK)
  • Red Hill Holiday (Russia)
  • Root Beer Day
  • Sneeze Without Embarrassment Day
  • Southern Sudan Day
  • St. John of Nepomuk’s Day (patron of Bohemia, Czech Republic)
  • Wear Purple For Peace Day

Holidays 5.15

  • Aoi Matsuri (a.k.a. Hollyhock Leaf Crest Festival; Kyoto, Japan)
  • Chocolate Chip Day
  • Conscientious Objectors’ Day
  • Independence Day (Day 2, Paraguay; from Spain, 1811)
  • International Day of Families (UN)
  • Mercuralia (Old Roman Festival to Mercury)
  • Nakba Day (Palestine)
  • National Employee Health & Fitness Day [3rd Wednesday]
  • National Pizza Party Day
  • National Playday for Health [3rd Wednesday]
  • National Sea Monkeys Day
  • Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day
  • Nylon Stockings Day
  • Over the Rainbow Day
  • Peace Officers Memorial Day
  • Relive Your Past By Listening to the First Music You Ever Bought, No Matter What It Was!, No Excuses Now Day
  • San Isidro Day (Mexico)
  • Straw Hat Day
  • Teachers’ Day (Mexico; South Korea)
  • Turn Beauty Inside Out Day

I’m more of a German-school brewer, so I think in terms of original gravity, and alcohol to me – I don’t even like talking about alcohol. It’s like asking a butcher to measure his steaks or hamburger in terms of percent fat. Alcohol to me isn’t important. When I brew these beers it’s about flavor.
 Dan Carey (May 14, 1960)
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