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Article: Celebrate Brew Year's Eve Says Brewers Association; Join Your Local Brewery on April 7.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- February 21, 2006
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BOULDER, Colo. -- On April 7, breweries all over America will raise a pint in celebration of the day that beer once again became legally available at the end of prohibition.
While full repeal 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. From that date 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.
"Today more than 1300 small, traditional and independent breweries operate in the U.S. and because of them Americans have plenty to ...