National Beer Day marks the day that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which allowed the legalization of beer sales in the U.S. with an alcohol content of 3.2 percent, ending Prohibition. Now that’s a fireside chat I can get behind!

Gambrinus is a character known as the unofficial patron saint of beer and, some believe, the inventor of adding hops to beer.

Every year on this day, Germans celebrate beer brewed in their own county from the approximately 13,000 breweries in Germany.