The Craft Beer Guide to Holidays

A month-by-month calendar

for craft breweries to tailor social

media posts and optimally engage loyal fans

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January

New Year’s (resolutions, black eyed peas)

Volstead Act takes effect (start of Prohibition)

Penguin Awareness Day

1st weekend

17th

20th

Beer Can Appreciation Day24th

Thomas Crapper Day (promoted but didn’t invent toilet)25th

The SolutionFebruary

Super Bowl (beware the Budweiser mules)

Single’s Awareness Day (beer > roses)

Mardi Gras (some years; (the only) good time to wear purple)

1st weekend

14th

Some time

25th

29th

International Sword Swallower’s Day

Leap Day

March

Mardi Gras (some years; feather boas encouraged)

Saint Patrick’s Day

Saint Patrick’s Recovery Day (lesser known)

1st half

17th

18th

15th Ides of March (“et tu Brutus”)

31st MLB Opening Day

April

End of Prohibition Day (it’s like 420 for beer drinkers)

King Gambrinus Day (first added hops to beer)

April 20th (it’s like 420 for marijuana smokers)

7th

11th

20th

9th - 11th Craft Brewer’s Conference

23rd Talk Like Shakespeare Day

May

Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “crunk off mayonnaise”)

American Craft Beer week

Memorial Day

5th

12th - 18th

Last Monday

2nd Sunday Take Mom out for a Beer Day

29th End of Middle Ages Day (monks everywhere rejoice)

June

National Homebrewer’s Conference

American Craft Beer Week

Summer Solstice (longest day of the year = much beer?)

Middle

12th - 18th

21st

16th Bloom’s Day (for James Joyce, a good man. And thorough.)

18th International Picnic / Sip Beer in a Park Day

July

Independence Day (no. 1 beer selling day)

National Bagpipe Appreciation Day

4th

27th

8th International Town Crier’s Day (hear ye, hear ye!)

18th St. Arnold’s Day (patron saint of brewers & us craft nerds)

National Slurpee Day (just add beer)11th

August

International Beer Day

Virginia Craft Beer Month

First Friday

Whole Month

7th India Pale Ale Day

24th National Hug Your Boss Day

National Lazy Day (kick back and have a cold one)10th

September

Sour Beer Day

Oktoberfest

13th

20th - Oct 5th

19th International Talk Like a Pirate Day

28th Drink Beer Day (as if you need a holiday for this)

Hobbit Day (we think Hobbits liked mead. But close enough.)22nd

October

Great American Beer Fest (sometimes in September)

Halloween (or, “dress like your parents won’t find out” day)

Early - Mid

31st

6th Mad Hatter Day (tea parties are boring without beer)

18th National No Beard Day

Day Homebrewing was Legalized in U.S.14th

November

King Tut Day (why celebrate? Because Egyptians drank beer)

Winston Churchill’s Birthday (now, he could drink)

4th

30th

8th International Stout Day

4th Thursday Thanksgiving

Veterans Day11th

December

National Cocoa Day

280th Anniversary of Poor Richards Almanac

13th

28th

23rd Festivus!

26th Boxing Day (never really knew what this was for. Beer?)

National Give Someone a Case of Beer Day25th

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