January 2012
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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 begins (Scotland) King Mango Strut (Coconut Grove, Florida) Kwanzaa, Day 6: Kuumba (Creativity) Leap Second Time Adjustment Day Make Up Your Mind Day Namahage (Japan) National Champagne Day New Year’s Eve Noche de Pedimento (Wishing Night) No...
Jan 1st
December 2011
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“Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, when once it is within...”
–  George Herbert
Dec 31st
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Holidays 12.30
Bacon Day Bicarbonate of Soda Day Festival of Enormous Changes At the Last Minute Freedom Day (Scientology) Kwanzaa, Day 5: Nia (Purpose) Let’s Make A Deal Day No Interruptions Day Rizal Day (Philippines) Sixth Day of Christmas Twelve Holy Days #5 (Leo, the heart; Esoteric Christianity)
Dec 31st
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“What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to...”
–  Mark Twain
Dec 30th
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Holidays 12.29
Assembly of Notables Day Broadway Day Festival of Autonomous Media Fifth Day of Christmas Illegal Pants Day Independence Day (Mongolia; from the Qing Dynasty, 1911) Kwanzaa, Day 4: Ujamaa (Cooperative Economy) National Chocolate Again Day National Yodel in the Shower Day Paternoster Row Day Pepper Pot Day Texas Statehood Day (#28; 1845) Tick Tock Day Twelve Holy Days #4 (Cancer, the...
Dec 29th
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“Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober...”
–  G.K. Chesterton
Dec 29th
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Holidays 12.28
Bairns’ Day (Unluckiest Day of the Year) Card Playing Day Childermas Dyzemas Day Eat Vegetarian Day Endangered Species Day Gone-ta-Pott Day Holy Innocent’s Day (Feast of Fools, Day 3) Iowa Statehood Day (#29; 1846) Cross Day (Ireland) Inocentes (Mexican April Fool’s Day) Kullubi (Ethiopia) Kwanzaa, Day 3: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) National Chocolate...
Dec 29th
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“Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep...”
–  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Dec 28th
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Holidays 12.27
Feast of Marimba (Goddess of Muscial Happiness; South Africa) Kwanzaa, Day 2: Kuichagulia (Self-Determination) Make Cut Out Snowflakes Day National Fruitcake Day St. John’s Day (Feast of Fools, Day 2) Third Day of Christmas Twelve Holy Days #2 (Taurus, the throat; Esoteric Christianity) Visit the Zoo Day
Dec 27th
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“Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”
–  Charles Dickens
Dec 27th
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Holidays 12.26
Blessing of the Wine (Luxembourg) Boxing Day (UK) Candy Cane Day Day of Goodwill (South Africa) Day of the Wren (Ireland, Isle of Man) Independence Day (Slovenia; from Yugoslavia, 1990) Junkanoo (Bahamas) Kwanzaa, Day 1: Umoja (Unity) Mummer’s Day (Cornwall, UK) National Coffee Percolator Day National Thank You Note Day National Whiner’s Day Recyclable Packaging Day ...
Dec 27th
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“Wine is on every lip: beer in every stomach. Those same writers who prate about...”
–  Anonymous, 1934
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) Malkh Festival (Nakh peoples) Multitude’s Idle Day (Puritan) Pumpkin Pie Day (Nov. 21st, too) Quarter Day (England, Ireland & Wales) Superstitious Man’s Idol Day (Puritan)
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale; ‘twas Christmas told the...”
–  Sir Walter Scott
Dec 25th
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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 25th
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Holidays 12.24
Adam & Eve Day (Hungary) Christmas Eve Drunken Synod’s annual beer bash feast Egg Nog Day Feast of the Seven Fishes (Italy) Independence Day (Libya; from Italy, 1951) Jul (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) National Chocolate Day National Roof-Over-Your-Head Day Nochebuena (Spain, Latin America) Santuranticuy (Peru) Silent Night Holy Night (Austria) Yuletide Lad #13 arrives (a.k.a....
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“I wish you a Malty Christmas And a Hoppy New Year, A pocket full of money And...”
–  Anonymous toast
Dec 24th
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Holidays 12.23
Acca Larentis (Celtic goddess who guards the dead) Feast of the Radishes (Mexico) Festival of the Great Heat (Feast Day of Hathor) Festivus Fool’s Day HumanLight Celebration John Canoe Day (Jamaica) Larentalia (Old Roman festival honoring Dea Tacita. the silent odes, a goddess of the dead) Metric Conversion Day Pfeffernuesse Day Popcorn Popping Day Queen’s Birthday...
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“Beer by Christmas would be the most welcome news the American people could have...”
–  William Randolph Hearst, 1932
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Holidays 12.22
Anklopfnachte (Germany; Thursday before Xmas) Christmas Tree Light Day Date Nut Bread Day Dōngzhì Festival (China, East Asia) Global Orgasm for Peace Day International Arbor Day National Regifting Day [Thursday before Xmas Eve] Sanghamitta (on winter solstice) The 10 Days of Wanking begins [ website ] Winter Solstice Yalda (Iran; eve of the birth of Mithra, on winter solstice) Yule (on...
Dec 22nd
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“Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice...”
–  Michael Jackson
Dec 22nd
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Holidays 12.21
Anne & Samantha Day Chaos Day Crossword Puzzle Day Divalia (a.k.a. Angeronalia; Old Roman festival to Angerona or Voluptia, goddess of joy & pleasure) Doleing Day (a.k.a. Gooding Day; Sussex, UK) Forefather’s Day (New England) Hamburger Day Humbug Day Independence Day (Nepal; 1923) Kiwi Fruit Day Look At the Bright Side Day Mumping Day National Flashlight Day National...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline — it...”
–  Frank Zappa (whose birthday’s today)
Dec 21st
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Holidays 12.20
Bo Aung Kyaw Day (Burma) Cathode-Ray Tube Day Fried Shrimp Day Games Day Go Caroling Day Halcyon Days of Calm Seas begin Hanukkah (a.k.a. Chanukah) Independence Day (Macau; from Portugal, 1999) International Human Solidarity Day (UN) Mudd Day National Sangria Day Pongol of the Sun (Hindu) St. Klippenstein’s Day (Allagash) Trivial Pursuit Day Yuletide Lad #9 arrives...
Dec 20th
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“Beer and freedom do go together.”
–  Ivan Tinkov
Dec 20th
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Holidays 12.19
A Christmas Carol Day Feast of Goddess of Sankrant (Hindu) Fiesta of Santo Tomas begins (Guatemala; until 25th) Hard Candy Day Look for an Evergreen Day National Oatmeal Muffin Day Nuts Fair (Belgium) [3rd Monday] Opalia (Celebrating Ops, the old Roman Mother Earth) St. Adam’s Day (1st Beer Drinker) United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation Yuletide Lad #8 arrives (Skyrgamur...
Dec 19th
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“Now stop your craving and drink me!”
–  Text on Blanche de Namur label
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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Holidays 12.18
Bake Cookies Day Eponalia (Feast of Epona; Roman goddess of fertility) Feast of Our Lady of Solitude (Mexico) Flake Appreciation Day Independence Day (Qatar; 1878) International Answer the Phone Like Buddy the Elf Day International Migrants Day (UN) New Jersey Statehood Day (#3; 1787) Roast Suckling Pig Day To Tell the Truth Day Wear a Plunger On Your Head Today Day Yuletide Lad #7...
Dec 18th
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“All of the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.”
–  Marv Levy, football coach
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Holidays 12.17
Day of Ancient Briton International Day To End Violence Against Sex Workers National Growler Day National Maple Syrup Day Pan American Aviation Day Saturnalia begins (Ancient Rome) Wright Brothers Day Yuletide Lad #6 arrives (Askasleikir or Bowl-Licker; Iceland)
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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“Brewing is the art of feeding sugar to yeast.”
–  Jeff Frane, 1994, Zymurgy
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Holidays 12.16
Barbie & Barney Backlash Day Bill Hicks 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) Klopfleisnachte (Germany) [2 Thursdays before Xmas] Los Posadas begins (Mexico, Latin America) Man Will Never Fly Memorial Society Day National Chocolate...
Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“It’s extraordinary how friendly you can make a lot of people on a couple...”
–  Baron Frankenstein, in the 1931 film “Frankenstein”
Dec 16th
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Holidays 12.15
Alcyone (Greek kingfisher goddess) Bill of Rights Day Cat Herders Day Consualia (honoring Consus, old Roman god of counsel) Cupcake Day Homecoming Day (Alderney, Channel Islands) Koninkrijksdag (Kingdom Day; Netherlands) Men’s Society of Piu Festival of Mirth, Peace, Honesty, Joyousness and Love (14th Century London) National Lemon Cupcake Day National Regifting Day Trivial Pursuit Day ...
Dec 15th
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“With hekt (beer) the Ka (spirit) is kept in balance with the liver and blood —...”
–  Ancient Egyptian Physician
Dec 15th
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Holidays 12.14
Alabama Statehood Day (#22; 1819) Buy A Tree Day Day of the Martyred Intellectuals (Bangladesh) 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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Dec 14th
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“Drink beer, the custom of the land! Beer he drank, seven goblets. His spirit was...”
–  Epic of Gilgamesh, 1200 BCE
Dec 14th
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Holidays 12.13
Acadian Remembrance Day Count the “La’s” in “Deck the Halls” Day Ice Cream Day National Cocoa Day New Calendar Day Santa Lucia Day (Sweden) St. Lucy’s Day (patron saint of writers) World Violins Day Yuletide Lad #2 arrives (Giljagaur or Gully Oaf; Iceland)
Dec 13th