National Beer Day

Needless to say, this a very popular holiday. It marks the repeal of the U.S. prohibition of beer in 1933. Does anyone really need a reason to guzzle down a pint or two!? That’s what I thought. Now the good news, it there are countless varieties of beer. There’s one to match the taste buds of each and every one of us.

Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians (now modern-day Iraq), and ancient Egyptians were the first to brew beer. The earliest records go back to around 1975 B.C.  Since then, people around the world have been brewing and consuming it in sometimes copious amounts. Large national and regional breweries have been quenching the thirst of Americans for a couple hundred years or so. However, the latest trend is local craft breweries. New ones open up every day, creating a wide variety in seemingly endless flavors. Homebrewers get into the act, too. Many grow their own hops.