January 2011
64 posts
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Holidays 12.31
Amateur Drinking Night Brew Year’s Eve Check the Smoke Alarms Day Cowbellion de Rakin Revel (Alabama) First Nights Hogmanay Day (Scotland) Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity) Make Up Your Mind Day Namahage (Japan) National Champagne Day New Year’s Eve Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night) No Interruptions Day Omisoka Day (Japan) Universal Hour of Peace (UN)...
Jan 1st
December 2010
65 posts
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Holidays 12.30
Bacon Day Festival of Enormous Changes At the Last Minute Kwanzaa, Day 5: Nia (Purpose) Let’s Make A Deal Day Pepper Pot Day
Dec 31st
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“I don’t have a drinking problem, except when I can’t find a drink.”
– Tom Waits
Dec 30th
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Holidays 12.29
Festival of Autonomous Media Kwanzaa, Day 4: Ujamaa (Cooperative Economy) National Chocolate Again Day Paternoster Row Day Pepper Pot Day Texas Statehood Day (#28; 1845) Tick Tock Day
Dec 30th
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Holidays 12.28
Bairns’ Day (Unluckiest Day of the Year) Card Playing Day Dyzemas Day Endangered Species Day Holy Innocent’s Day (Feast of Fools, Day 3) Iowa Statehood Day (#29; 1846) Cross Day (Ireland) Inocentes (Mexican April Fool’s Day) Kwanzaa, Day 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) National Chocolate Day Throw Away Your Subliminal Motivation Tapes Today Day
Dec 29th
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“The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for...”
– Sir Walter Raleigh
Dec 28th
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“Thought of giving it all away, to a registered charity. All I need is a pint a...”
– Paul McCartney, Band on the Run
Dec 27th
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Holidays 12.26
Boxing Day (UK) Day of Goodwill (South Africa) Day of the Wren (Ireland) Independence Day (Slovenia; from Yugoslavia, 1990) Junkanoo (Bahamas) Kwanzaa, Day 1: Umoja (Unity) National Thank You Note Day National Whiner’s Day Second Day of Christmas St. Stephen’s Day (Feast of Fools, Day 1)
Dec 27th
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“While beer brings gladness, don’t forget That water only makes you wet.”
– Larry Leon Wilson, The Spenders
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Holidays 12.25
A’Phabet Day Birthday of Mithras Birth of the Sun Christmas Heathen’s Fasting Day (Puritan) Multitude’s Idle Day (Puritan) Quarter Day (England, Ireland & Wales) Superstitious Man’s Idol Day (Puritan)
Dec 25th
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“I wish you a Malty Christmas And a Hoppy New Year, A pocket full of money And...”
– Anonymous toast
Dec 25th
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“Here’s a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends, with the sparkle...”
– Ogden Nash
Dec 24th
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Holidays 12.23
Feast of the Radishes (Mexico) Festival of the Great Heat (Feast Day of Hathor) Festivus Humanlight Celebration Secret of the Unhewn Stone (Celtic) Yuletide Lad #12 arrives (Ketkrokur or Meat Hook; Iceland)
Dec 23rd
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“Make the long night shorter, Forgetting not, Good stout old English Porter.”
– R. H. Messenger, Give Me the Old
Dec 23rd
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Holidays 12.22
Date Nut Bread Day International Arbor Day The 10 Days of Wanking begins [ website ] Yuletide Lad #11 arrives (Gattapefur or Sniffer; Iceland)
Dec 23rd
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“Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and...”
– Ancient Egyptian saying
Dec 22nd
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Twas The Beer Before Christmas: A Brewery Visit...
While not widely known, St. Nicholas, among his many patronages includes brewers. He is a patron saint of brewers. The way we think of St. Nick in America begins with the publication of Twas the Night Before Christmas: A Visit From St, Nicholas by Clement C. Moore in 1823. So with my tongue firmly set in my cheek, I decided to rewrite Moore’s masterpiece, moving his visit from the home to...
Dec 22nd
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Holidays 12.21
Chaos Day Crossword Puzzle Day Forefather’s Day (New England) Humbug Day Look At the Bright Side Day National Flashlight Day National Haiku Poetry Day Phileas Fogg Wins A Wager Day Winter Solstice World Peace Day Yule Yuletide Lad #10 arrives (Gluggagaegir or Peeper; Iceland) Ziemassvetki (Ancient Latvia)
Dec 22nd
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“Let schoolmasters puzzle their brains With grammar, and nonsense, and learning,...”
– Oliver Goldsmith, 1728–1774
Dec 21st
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Hoidays 12.20
Halcyon Days of Calm Seas begin International Human Solidarity Day (UN) Mudd Day National Sangria Day Pongol of the Sun (Hindu) Trivial Pursuit Day Yuletide Lad #9 arrives (Bjugnakraekir or Sausage Pilferer; Iceland)
Dec 20th
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“Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.”
– Harold Rudolph
Dec 20th
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Holidays 12.19
Feast of Goddess of Sankrant (Hindu) Fiesta of Santo Tomas begins (Guatemala; until 25th) St. Adam’s Day (1st Beer Drinker) Yuletide Lad #8 arrives (Skyrgamur or Curd Glutton; Iceland)
Dec 20th
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“Adhere to the Schweinheitsgebot. Don’t put anything in your beer that a...”
– David L. Geary
Dec 19th
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Holidays 12.18
Feast of Our Lady of Solitude (Mexico) Independence Day (Qatar; 1878) International Migrants Day (UN) New Jersey Statehood Day (#3; 1787) To Tell the Truth Day Wear a Plunger On Your Head Today Day Yuletide Lad #7 arrives (Huroaskellir or Door-Slammer; Iceland)
Dec 19th
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“Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.”
– William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
Dec 18th
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Holidays 12.17
International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers National Maple Syrup Day Saturnalia begins (Ancient Rome) Underdog Day [3rd Friday] Yuletide Lad #6 arrives (Askasleikir or Bowl-Licker; Iceland)
Dec 18th
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“There is food in beer, but there is no beer in food. Beer is like liquid...”
– Jim Koch
Dec 17th
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Holidays 12.16
Barbie & Barney Backlash Day Day of Reconciliation (f.k.a. Day of the Vow; South African Afrikaners) Eat What You Want Day Independence Day (Bahrain; from UK, 1971) Independence Day (Kazakhstan; from USSR, 1991) Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Day National Chocolate Covered Anything Day Posadas begins (Mexico) Sophia (a.k.a. Sapinetia; Celtic Goddess of Wisdom) Victory...
Dec 17th
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“An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own...”
– Alvan L. Barach
Dec 16th
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“He that drinketh strong beer and goes to bed right mellow, lives as he ought to...”
– Anonymous
Dec 15th
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Holidays 12.14
Alabama Statehood Day (#22; 1819) Buy A Tree Day Deck the Halls Day Halcyon Days begin (7 days before & after Winter Solstice) Monkey Day National Bouillabaisse Day Opposites Attract Day Quantum Mechanics Day Unreturned Library Books Day Yuletide Lad #3 arrives (Stufur or Shorty a.k.a. Pan Scraper; Iceland)
Dec 15th
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“If I had to live my life over, I’d live over a saloon.”
– W.C. Fields
Dec 14th
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Holidays 12.13
Count the “La’s” in “Deck the Halls” Day Ice Cream & Violins Day National Cocoa Day New Calendar Santa Lucia Day (Sweden) St. Lucy’s Day (patron saint of writers) Yuletide Lad #2 arrives (Giljagaur or Gully Oaf; Iceland)
Dec 14th
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“Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink.”
– Whitstran Brewery sign
Dec 13th
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Holidays 12.12
Bonza Bottler Day Feast of Rekereke (Polynesian God of Pleasure) Guadalupe Day (Mexico) Independence Day (Kenya; from UK, 1963) International Shareware Day Jamhuri Day (Kenya) National Ambrosia Day National Ding-A-Ling Day Pennsylvania Statehood Day (#2; 1787) Unmentionable Thoughts Day Yuletide Lad #1 arrives (Stekkjarstaur or Sheefold Stick; Iceland)
Dec 13th
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“Alcohol may be man’s worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.”
– Frank Sinatra
Dec 12th
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Holidays 12.11
Foire Aux Noix (Nuts Fair; Belgium) Independence Day (South Africa; from UK, 1931) Indiana Statehood Day (#19; 1816) International Mountain Day (UN) International Shareware Day National Day of the Horse Scaling Day (aka Escalade; Switzerland) Tango Day (Argentina)
Dec 12th
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“Landlord fill the flowing bowl, until it doth run over. For tonight...”
– Old English folk song
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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Holidays 12.10
Bill of Rights Day Festival for the Souls of Dead Whales (Inuit) Human Rights Day (UN) International Animal Rights Day Lux Mundi (Light of the Wold; Roman Goddess of Liberty) Mississippi Statehood Day (#20; 1817) National Lager Day National Salesperson’s Day Nobel Prize Day
Dec 11th
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Dec 11th
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“…Actually, I’m a drinker with writing problems.”
– Brendan Behan
Dec 10th
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Holidays 12.9
Fiesta of the Mother of Health (Mexico) Independence Day (Tanzania; from UK, 1961) International Anti-Corruption Day (UN) National Pastry Day
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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“We’re all friends in fermentation.”
– Fritz Maytag
Dec 9th
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Holidays 12.8
Afflux (Discordian) Bodhi Day (Japan) Feast of the Immaculate Conception National Brownie Day Take It In the Ear Day
Dec 9th
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“I can’t die until the government finds a safe place to bury my liver.”
– Phil Harris
Dec 8th
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Dec 8th