Yesterday, you showed the world what you think of beer. Yesterday, you filled the bars. Yesterday, you emptied the kegs and moved on to the bottles. Yesterday, you were a force of nature.
Today, you will empty the stores of painkillers.
You might as well get something out of that hangover, so we'd like to encourage you to enter the International Beer Day Photo Contest! Just submit a photo of you celebrating International Beer Day 2011 and you could win an IBD beer stein, beer mug, or shirt!
The day is finally upon us -- it's International Beer Day and that means it's time to go out and celebrate beer! By celebrating you're joining a community of hundreds of thousands of men and women around the globe, all rejoicing in the deliciousness that is beer. Ready to celebrate? Here's what to do:
Tell the World!
Help make sure everyone in the world knows about International Beer Day by telling your friends on facebook and tweeting with the hashtag #IntlBeerDay. Heck, we'll make it even easier than that, you can just click one of the buttons below:
Find Your Nearest Celebration
You and your friends are going to need somewhere to go out and celebrate International Beer Day, luckily there are 278 Official IBD Events taking place all over the world! You can find your nearest event using our Map of IBD Celebrations:
And don't worry if there isn't an official celebration nearby, all you really need to celebrate International Beer Day is good beer and good friends -- just grab your pals, grab some brews and go start your own celebration at your favorite local pub.
Give Your Friends the Gift of Beer
One of our favorite International Beer Day traditions is giving the gift of beer! There's nothing quite like being handed a surprise beer and hearing, "I bring you the gift of beer" -- Pick up a six-pack and give each bottle out as a gift, we guarantee you'll make someone's day.
We've also made some silly digital beers that you can send to your friends on facebook, just copy the url below the beer of your choice and post it on your friend's wall. Fair warning, friends who receive digital beers will probably insist that you buy them a real beer later on.
You can learn even more about how to celebrate here.
Cheers, and Happy International Beer Day!
It's the day before International Beer Day here in the US, and we thought we'd take a short pause to take stock of where our beloved beer celebration stands.
As of this moment, there are 276 known International Beer Day celebrations planned across 138 cities and 23 countries worldwide. And again, that's just celebrations we know about, its possible and even likely that that there are many more bars planning to celebrate...
Want to get your energy up for International Beer Day? We've got just the thing -- An epic montage of beer openings! Warning: side-effects may include thirst, excitement, beerlust, and overwhelming desire to celebrate International Beer Day
With International beer day just under a month away, the IBD Facebook event already has over 130,000 people planning to attend -- that's a hundred thousand men and women ready to raise their frosty mugs in celebration of beer!
And what do we call that? We call it a good start.
It's incredibly gratifying to see so many people getting ready to join in the celebration on August 5th. International Beer Day started small back in 2007, and it's grown so much every year, with more celebrations, more countries, more celebrators!
Thanks for being a part of it, this is the International Beer Day we always imagined, and it is a glorious thing to behold.
Over the last couple couple weeks we've been getting a lot of requests for "blog badges" that folks can easily place on their websites. Well, ask and ye shall receive -- International Beer Day proudly presents: The IBD Badges.
There are four badges in all, three variations on I ♥ International Beer Day and a version sporting the classic IBD logo. We'd tell you to collect all four, but really you might be best off just choosing your favorite. Enjoy!
"A woman who loves the taste of beer, now there's a woman for me."
Want a little taste of romance with your beer? Well you're in luck, because International Beer Day has its own special traditions when it comes to flirting.
Yesterday, you showed the world what you think of beer. Yesterday, you filled the bars. Yesterday, you emptied the kegs and moved on to the bottles. Yesterday, you were a force of nature.
Tell the World!
Find Your Nearest Celebration
Give Your Friends the Gift of Beer
