Posts Tagged ‘prohibition’
Celebrating 75 years of legal drinking
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the official end of the failed social experiment known as Prohibition. On December 5, 1933, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment, which repealed the 18th Amendment. With two-thirds of the states ratifying the amendment, 13 years of Prohibition came to an end. (It’s ironic that [...]
75 years of legal beer
Today is the anniversary of the legalization of beer after prohibition. Happy New Beers Day! At 12:01 a.m. Eastern April 7, 1933 the Cullen-Harrison Act went into effect. One of the very first acts of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, this act allowed the return of legal beer sales in America, and marked the beginning of the [...]



