WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, April 7, 2021
1927 Herbert Eugene Ives of Bell Laboratories broadcast the first official TV picture from Washington D.C. to New York over telephone lines.
1933 Prohibition officially came to an end. Hence today is National Beer Day!
1949 Rogers and Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” opened on Broadway.
Music History:
The Police released ‘Roxanne’ as the first single from their debut album Outlandos d’Amour. The song was written from the point of view of a man who falls in love with a prostitute. The title came from the name of the character in the play Cyrano de Bergerac, which Sting saw on an old poster which was hanging in a hotel foyer in Paris, where the group had been staying.
Cheer State College’s Beer Trail | Cheers PA!
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In this special National Beer Day episode of Cheers PA! Beer Tours, we visit Pennsylvania’s beer trail in Central PA’s Centre County. The Central PA tasting trail features breweries, wineries and distilleries. Join our host and brewer Hannah Ison, as we tour Penn State fans’ favorite, Otto’s Pub and Brewery and then take a drive through some farm and mountain roads to get to Lincoln Caverns, one of only 7 caves in Pa. that are mapped and open to the public.
Watch the episode below and on Cheerspa.com. You can follow Cheers PA! on Facebook, Instagram and on Twitter. In addition to Beer Tours, join Mike Lintal for a live podcast show every second and fourth Thursday of the month on Cheers PA’s YouTube channel and Facebook page. Get the chance to ask brewers and industry insiders your questions about craft beer brewing in Pennsylvania.
April 07 2021
Douglas Weathers is president of Sodbuster Farms Inc. in Marion County. He says natural gas is vital to his hop farm s future.
On April 7, we celebrate National Beer Day to commemorate the date President Franklin Roosevelt re-legalized beer months ahead of all other alcohol beverages when prohibition was ended by the 21st Amendment in 1933.
As we celebrate National Beer Day with our favorite Oregon brew, we should reflect on what makes beer possible. Most people know the key ingredients for beer are water, grain, yeast and hops. But few realize there is a fifth ingredient needed to produce most beer natural gas.
I think this would be a good time for a beer .
The date chosen for this celebration isn t just random. On April 7th, 1933 a law went into effect allowing beer sales. Of course, the 18th Amendment wouldn t be officially repealed until December of that year. To get the law through, the beer could only contain up to 3.2% alcohol which was considered too low for intoxication. I would hate to see what some tee-totalers from
back in the day would think of many of today s craft brews with double, triple or even quadruple the alcohol content!
As I think about my love for beer.I basically break them down into
Every April 7, people across the country celebrate National Beer Day, a day that recognizes the most widely consumed alcoholic beverage in the world.
The holiday s origins extend all the way back to 1919 when Congress passed the 18th Amendment, which banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol in the U.S. This marked the beginning of the Prohibition era.
But 14 years later, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which made selling and consuming low-alcohol beverages, including beer, legal again.
The act passed on March 22, 1933, according to Time.com, but it didn t officially go into effect until April 7, 1933.
National Beer Wholesalers Association reported that in 2019, the U.S. beer industry sold 203.1 million barrels of beer (1 barrel contains 31 gallons).