National Beer Day (United States)

National Beer Day
National Beer Day
Observed by	United States
Type	Unofficial
Significance	Celebrates the passage of the Cullen–Harrison Act legalizing the sale of some beer
Date	April 7
Frequency	Annual
Related to	Repeal Day

National Beer Day is celebrated in the United States every year on April 7, marking the day that the Cullen–Harrison Act came into force after having been signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 22, 1933. This led to the Eighteenth Amendment being repealed on December 5, 1933, with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment.^[1] April 6, the day before, is known as New Beer's Eve.^[2]

^ W. Paul Reeve. "Prohibition Failed to Stop the Liquor Flow in Utah". Utah History to Go. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013. (First published in History Blazer, February 1995)
^ "New Beer's Eve: Happy days were here again". CNN. April 7, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2010.

[1] W. Paul Reeve. "Prohibition Failed to Stop the Liquor Flow in Utah". Utah History to Go. Archived from the original on October 23, 2013. Retrieved November 7, 2013. (First published in History Blazer, February 1995)

[2] "New Beer's Eve: Happy days were here again". CNN. April 7, 2008. Retrieved February 3, 2010.

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