May 2012
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Holidays 5.27
Birthday of the Buddha Bloomer Day Cellophane Tape Day Clean Sneakers Appreciation Day Dia de la Madre (a.k.a. Mother’s Day; Bolivia) Grape Popsicle Day National Buttercup Day National Wig Out Day Old-Time Player Piano Day Season of Confusion begins (Discordian) Throw the Bastards Out Day
May 28th
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“There is food in beer, but there is no beer in food. Beer is like liquid bread —...”
–  Jim Koch
May 27th
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Holidays 5.26
Blueberry Cheesecake Day Dzien Matki (a.k.a. Mother’s Day; Poland) Feast of VooDoo Economics Go Barefoot Around the House Day Grey Day Independence Day (Georgia; from Russia, 1918) Independence Day (Guyana; from UK, 1966) National Day of Healing (Australia) National Death Busters Day National Paper Airplane Day Sally Ride Day Sorry Day (Australia) Windmill Day (Netherlands)
May 26th
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“The troubles of our proud and angry dust, are from eternity, and shall not fail....”
–  A.E. Housman
May 26th
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Holidays 5.25
Africa Day Bojangles Day Don’t Fry Day [Friday before memorial Day] Flitting Day (Scotland) Global Planking Day Geek Pride Day Gypsy Day Independence Day (Jordan; from UK, 1946) National Brown-Bag-It Day National Don’t Utter a Word Day National Missing Children’s Day Revolution Day (Argentina) National Tap Dance Day National Wine Day Poetry Day (Florida) Saint...
May 26th
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“Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.”
–  John Ciardi
May 25th
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Holidays 5.24
Aldersgate Day (Methodism) Bermuda Day Brother’s Day Camping with Barry White Day (David Letterman) Commonwealth Day (Belize) Escargot Day European Day of Parks Feast of Hermes Trismegistus (patron of alchemy) Hug Your Cat Day Independence Day (Ecuador; from Spain, 1822) Independence Day (Eritrea; from Ethiopia, 1993) International Tiara Day The Mothers (Celtic Prosperity...
May 25th
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“There is more to life than beer alone, but beer makes those other things even...”
–  Stephen Morris
May 24th
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“Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!”
–  Louis Untermeyer
May 23rd
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“When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the...”
–  Congolese proverb
May 22nd
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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 ...
May 22nd
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“Said Aristotle unto Plato, ‘Have another sweet potato?’ Said Plato...”
–  Owen Wister
May 21st
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Holidays 5.20
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 I Am An American Day [3rd Sunday] Independence Day (Cuba; from US, 1902) Independence Day (East Timor; internationally recognized, 2002) Lafayette Day (Massachusetts) Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK) Mecklenburg Day...
May 20th
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Holidays 5.19
Armed Forces Day (US) [3rd Saturday] Circus Day Dark Day (New England) Devil’s Food Cake Day Do Dah Day (Birmingham, Alabama) Greek Genocide Remembrance Day International Chicken Flying Meet Kirkland’s Warbler Day Malcolm X Day (US) May Ray Day National Memo Day Plant Something Day Turn Beauty Inside Out Day Youth and Sports Day (Turkey)
May 20th
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“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with...”
–  Hugh Hood
May 19th
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Holidays 5.18
Apollon Day (Old Roman Festival to Apollo, God of Music, Poetry & Sunlight) Bike to Work Day (US) [3rd Friday] Black Watch Day Cheese Souffle Day Endangered Species Day Hispanic Family 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) NASCAR Day ...
May 19th
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“Wherever beer is brewed, all is well — wherever beer is drunk, life is good.”
–  Czech saying
May 18th
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Holidays 5.17
Ascension Day [39 Days after Easter] Cherry Cobbler Day Constitution Day (Norway; from Denmark, 1814) Dea Dia (Goddess of the Cosmos) Dia das Letras Galegas (Spain) Famine Memorial Day (Ireland) Galacian Literature Day I-Am-An-American Day International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia National Cyber Safety Awareness Day National Employee Health & Fitness Day Pack Rat Day Peasant Day...
May 17th
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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 St. John of Nepomuk’s Day (patron of Bohemia, Czech Republic) Wear Purple For Peace Day
May 17th
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“As you sow, you must reap — as you brew, so you must bake.”
–  Colman & Garrick, Clandestine Marriage, 1766
May 16th
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Holidays 5.15
Aoi Matsuri (a.k.a. Hollyhock Leaf Crest Festival; Kyoto, Japan) Chocolate Chip Day Conscientious Objectors’ Day International Day of Families (UN) Mercuralia (Old Roman Festival to Mercury) Nakba Day (Palestine) National Pizza Party Day National Sea Monkeys Day Never Turn Your Back on the Ocean Day Nylon Stockings Day Over the Rainbow Day Peace Officer Memorial Day Relive Your...
May 16th
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“Kitchens in Milwaukee are built with three taps — marked hot, cold and Schlitz.”
–  Old Milwaukee saying
May 15th
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Holidays 5.14
Brewster’s Day Buttermilk Biscuit Day Fahrenheit Day Help Clean Up Your Street Day Independence Day (Israel; self-declared, 1948) Independence Day (Paraguay; from Spain, 1811) Kamuzu Day (Malawi) National Dance Like A Chicken Day National Mild Day (UK) National Unification Day (Liberia) National Women’s Check-Up Day Stars & Stripes Forever Day Underground America Day ...
May 14th
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“Bot we must drynk as we brew And that is bot reson.”
–  Towneley Play of Second Shepherd, 1450
May 14th
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Holidays 5.13
Abbotsbury Garland Day (Dorset, UK) Animal Disaster Preparedness Day Blame Someone Else Day Canada Health Day Druid Day Fibromyalgia Day Fiesta of Five Flags Frog Jumping Day Fruit Cocktail Day Leprechaun Dy Mother’s Day [2nd Sunday] National Apple Pie Day National Mills Day National Nutty Fudge Day Purlliya (Ancient Anatola; Dragon Slaying Festival) Rogation Sunday [Sunday...
May 14th
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“Blessed is the mother who gives birth to a brewer.”
–  Czech saying
May 13th
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Holidays 5.11
Blow Bubbles For Your Cat Day Bob Marley Day (Jamaica) Childcare Providers Appreciation Day Eat What You Want Day International Strange Music Festival Joan of Arc Day (Orleans, France) Military Spouse Appreciation Day [Friday before Mother’s Day] Minnesota Statehood Day (#32; 1858) National Mocha Torte Day Twilight Zone Day
May 11th
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“They just didn’t understand what I was doing, they couldn’t comprehend the idea...”
–  Jack McAuliffe, New Albion Brewery founder
May 11th
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Holidays 5.10
Clean Up Your Room Day Confederate Memorial Day (NC, SC) Dia De La Madre (Mexico) Five & Dime Day Golden Spike Day Human Kindness Day International Monty Python Status Day Library Legislative Days Mom’s Night Out [Thursday before Mother’s Day] Move for Health Day National Receptionist Day National Shrimp Day National Tourist Appreciation Day Ring Day Skunks Born Day ...
May 10th
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“Any foreign trip is better if you can visit a few breweries.”
–  Fred Eckhardt
May 10th
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“You’ll never meet an ex-craft beer drinker.”
–  David Fougeron, Southern Star Brewing
May 9th
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Holidays 5.8
Coca-Cola Day Empanada Day Furry Dance (a.k.a. The Flora; Helston, Cornwall, UK) International Migratory Bird Day National Coconut Crem Pie Day No Socks Day Teacher’s Day [Tuesday of 1st full week] Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War Day Truman Day (Missouri) Victory in Europe Day White Lotus Day (Theosophy) World Red...
May 9th
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Holidays 5.7
Beaufort Scale Day Experience the Awesome Stomach-Churning Wonder of a Thrill Ride Day Homespun History Day Join Hands Day Letter Carriers “Stamp Out Hunger” Food Drive Day Melanoma Monday [1st Monday] National Day of Reason National Nuzzling Day National Skin Self-Examination Day Paste-Up Day Roast Leg of Lamb Day Spring Astronomy Day Victory in Europe Day
May 8th
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“Save the Earth … It’s the only planet with beer.”
–  Anonymous, seen on a t-shirt
May 7th
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“Home is where you hang your hangover.”
–  James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss
May 6th
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Holidays 5.5
Big Brew Day [1st Saturday] Bonza Bottler Day Cartoonists Day Kodomo-No-Hi (Children’s Day; Japan) Cinco de Mayo Europe Day Feast of al-Khadr (St. George; Palestine) Folly Festival Great American Grump Out Independence Day (The Netherlands; from Nazi Germany, 1945) International Midwives’ Day Lusophone Culture Day National Chocolate Custard Day National Day of Reason ...
May 6th
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“It is my aim to win the American people over to our side, to make them all...”
–  Adolphus Busch
May 5th
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Holidays 5.4
Bird Day (US) Bona Dea (Old Roman odes of Women’s Mysteries) Candied Orange Peel Day Cassinga Day (Namibia) Compliment Someone’s Smile Day Great American Grump Out Day Greenery Day (a.k.a. Midori no Hi; Japan) Independence Day (Latvia; from USSR, 1990) Independence Day (Rhode Island; from Great Britain, 1776) International Firefighters’ Day International Respect For...
May 5th
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“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep...”
–  Ernest Hemingway
May 4th
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Holidays 5.3
Birthday of Spam E-mail Chocolate Custard Day Constitution Memorial Day Dia de la Cruz (Day of the Holy Cross; Mexico, Latin America) Discoflux (Discordian) Garden Meditation Day Kenpo Kinenbi (a.k.a. Constitution Day; Japan) Lumpy Rug Day National Specially-Abled Pets Day National Day of Prayer [1st Thursday] National Two Different Colored Shoes Day Paranormal Day Procession of the...
May 3rd
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“Beer is the center of everything. Everything revolves around beer. When you...”
–  University of Waterloo Engineers
May 3rd
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Holidays 5.2
Ba Ba Ba Booo Day Brothers and Sisters Day Dos de Mayo (Spain) Eve of the Finding of the True Cross Feast of Osiris (who taught the Egyptians how to brew beer) Fire Day Holiday of the Region of Madrid (Spain) Lag B’Omer (Hebrew harvest time) Mad Festival National Babies Day National Lumpy Rug Day National Truffles Day Peasant’s Day (Burma) Robert’s Rules Day Rowdy...
May 3rd
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“One drink is just right, two are too many, three too few”
–  Spanish saying
May 2nd
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April 2012
50 posts
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Holidays 4.29
Day to Remember Chemical Warfare Victims Feast of the Secret Masters Fish Cleaning Night (David Letterman) Greenery Day (Japan) Hairball Awareness Day International Dance Day Milk-Curdling Sunday (Gremlins; not always a Sunday) National Dance Day Public Skipping Day Queen’s Night (Netherlands) Save the Frogs Day Shōwa Day (Japan) Shrimp Scampi Day Thesaurus Day Toad Suck Daze...
Apr 29th
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“Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.”
–  Mitch Hedberg
Apr 29th
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“A stein in the hand is worth two on the bar.”
–  Anonymous
Apr 28th
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Holidays 4.27
Arbor Day [Last Friday] Babe Ruth Day Freedom Day (South Africa) Hairball Awareness Day Independence Day (Sierra Leone; from UK, 1961) Independence Day (Togo; from France, 1960) Learn To Make An Apricot Cream Pie Day Matanzas Mule Day Morse Code Day National D.J. Day National Prime Rib Day National Teach Children To Save Day New Beginning Day Sleep Day Tell A Story Day UnFreedom...
Apr 28th
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Holidays 4.26
Cape Henry Day (Virginia) Festival of Individual Sovereignty Hug a Friend Day Hug An Australian Day National Kids and Pets Day National Pretzel Day Poem in Your Pocket Day Read Me Day Remember Your First Kiss Day Richter Scale Day Shuffleboard Day Static Cling Day Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day [4th Thursday] Union Day (Tanzania) World Intellectual Property Day (UN)
Apr 27th
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“Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow.”
–  Cicero
Apr 26th
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Holidays 4.25
Administrative Professionals Day Adonia (Greek women’s festival) Anti-Nuclear Day Anzac Day (Australia, New Zealand) Arbor Day (Germany) Canadanaigua (festival of lights, ritual of harvest and thanksgiving; Native American) DNA Day East Meets West Day Malaria Awareness Day National Sense of Smell Day parental Alienation Awareness Day Red Hat Society Day Robigalia (Ancient Roman...
Apr 25th
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