Hoppy Brew Years Eve

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Celebrate Brew Years Eve

Why Brewers Celebrate April 7

While the full repeal of Prohibition came on December 5, 1933, an amendment to Prohibition legalized beer with 3.2 percent alcohol by weight (4.0 percent by volume) starting on April 7 of that year.  In fact, the first public delivery of beer went to the White House to honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt who had won the presidency in part because he favored repeal.  From April 7 on, the country’s brewers were back in business and Americans enjoyed legal beer for eight months before wine and spirits were once again legitimate.

We'll be celebrating with a growler of Blind Pig from Russian River Brewing.

What are you drinking tonight?

[TongoRad]

Anchor Porter and Sierra Nevada Bigfoot- just a smidge over that 4% AbV We've come a long way, baby!

[Rich Pawlak]

Three of my very favorite beers: Yards Philadelphia Pale Ale, Yards ESA and Yards Love Stout

[Susan in FL]

Good line up! I had Tuppers Hop Pocket and Victory Hop Wallop.

Yards Love Stout, and what a great name... We have some of that, but one of the bottles we opened had uncontrollable head. What is it about stouts (or is it their names, lol) with that?

The 4th homebrew we made was 4-Play Stout, and it had uncontrollable head (got infected.) Remember the days of the Burgess Bedroom Brews, RP? Now I am content to read about Chris's, Michael's, and others' homebrewing. If only I could sample some homebrew, though... It's been a long time.

Hoppy Brew Year!