Paired with live music and food trucks (as well as Ohio-based treat vendors), it doesn’t get much better than that for the coffee-lover. The price of admission grants endless coffee tasting privileges during the festival - which you’ll enjoy from your free, themed mug - from vendors located in Columbus and across the state. Whether you’re a coffee aficionado or just enjoy the occasional sip, the Columbus Coffee Festival has something for you. Stevan of Decani Serbian ChurchĮat, drink, sing and dance at this year's Serbian Festival. The church’s grounds are transformed into a Serbian village with homemade Serbian dishes and pastries, drinks, live Serbian music and children's activities.Ĭolumbus Coffee Festival | September 23–24, 2023, Ohio Village Hosted in part by the Schmidt family (who bring +130 years of Columbus tradition to the festival) of Schmidt’s in German Village, enjoy plenty of German tradition and culture at this event.Ĭolumbus Serbian Festival | September 15–16, 2023, St. Columbus’ German heritage is on display at this fun annual celebration. Put on your dirndls and lederhosen, pump up the polka and raise your beer stein. From honey bake-offs to perusing the arts and crafts booths, you’re sure to have a sweet time – and you might even see this year’s Honey Princess!Ĭolumbus Oktoberfest | September 8–10, 2023, Ohio Expo Center/Ohio State Fairgrounds Taking place in Lithopolis (just outside Columbus), celebrate all things honey and bee-related during National Honey Month. On December 5, 1933, the 21st Amendment repeals the 18th Amendment.Lithopolis Honeyfest | September 8–9, 2023, Lithopolis.On March 23, 1933, President Franklin Roosevelt signs into law legislation permitting the sale of 3.2% alcohol beer.The 18th Amendment is ratified on Januand goes into effect January 16, 1920.Prohibition, in the form of the 18th Amendment, outlaws the sale of alcohol in the United States. Eight people are killed, “by drowning, injury, poisoning by porter fumes, or drunkenness.” Nearly 300 years later it’s the oldest continuously operating inn in the United States.Ī storage vat at the Horse Shoe Brewery in London containing more than 300,000 gallons of porter collapses, knocking down brewery walls and flooding immediate area. The tavern that will become known as the Wayside Inn after being immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn opens in Sudbury, Mass. He calls the “noble Hamburg beer the queen of all other wheat beers.” Heinrich Knaust writes the first extensive book on brewing in Germany, describing in detail about 150 different beers. The original laws permits beer to be made only with barley, hops and water, later acknowledging yeast and permitting wheat. The Reinheitsgebot, instituted in Bavaria, is a beer “purity law” that remains today in revised form. He helps end a plague by convincing people to drink beer rather than impure water. Saint Arnold of Metz is born, one of dozens of patron saints to beer, brewers and hop-pickers. Pickle!Ī “Hymn to Ninkasi,” the Sumerian goddess of beer, is inscribed on a tablet, about 4,000 years after men first leave evidence of brewing activity. And they helped to pass the measure for “the betterment of the brewing industry at large.” Fun fact: The representative who brought the bill to the House Floor was named J.J. The big brewers in this deal? No break at all. Instead of being a blanketed $9/barrel, no matter how many barrels were brewed, breweries producing 2 million barrels or less would pay $7/barrel up to 60,000 barrels and $9/barrel up to 2 million barrels. Remember, a phone call back then was expensive! There was a real effort put forth and it was greatly celebrated when passed. He apologized for calling me at home but told me his Board of Directors was going to vote on the closing of the Brewery if I thought the program would not pass. O’Shea, wrote in his correspondences with members of how important this was to breweries and their futures stating “One awfully nice brewer phoned me at home over the week-end, asking how it looked for our Excise Tax Program. The tax was long fought for, starting in 1975 by members of the Brewers Association of America (BAA). This was significant because taxes were the same for all brewers, despite the number of barrels produced. The Small Brewers Excise Tax Differential is passed in September 1976.

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