Today's reason to drink? It's Believe the Impossible Day, Grape Day, Hobbit Day, Ice Cream Cone Day, National Drink Local Day, National Eat Dinner with Your Family Day, National Welsh Whisky Day, National White Chocolate Day, One Web Day, Proposal Day & World Rose Day tinyurl.com/yc84apy2

Historic Beer Birthday: Thomas Greenall tinyurl.com/yz5tnzys

Beer in Art #1657 Cartoon of Transport in the City. (“A coachman pays on time stops at a cafe to take a bock under the rales of the bourgeois he carries.”), by Colomb B. Moloch, 1860 (France)

Today's Bock oddity is a cartoon by Jimmy Swinnerton, published in the San Francisco Examiner on September 21, 1902, showing the "Annual Picnic of the Ararat Schuetzenfest-Saengerbund." There's also a goat trying to head butt his reflection at a Bock Beer sign on the right.

Historic Beer Birthday: Jacob Birk tinyurl.com/3ba74cbw

Beer in Art #1656 Oktoberfest, by Anton Emdin, 2012 (Australia)

Oktoberfest 2025 began in Munich, Germany yesterday, on September 20, and as they do every year, there's a poster contest to choose each year's official poster. Here is this year's 2nd place winner, the runner-up.

Beer Birthday: John Gillooly tinyurl.com/3ba74cbw

Happy Birthday American author Stephen King (September 21, 1947- )

Today's reason to drink? It's Adopt a New Phobia Day, Biosphere Day, Day of Wallonia, Miniature Golf Day, National Beef Stroganoff Day, National Chai Day, National Neighborhood Day, National Pecan Cookie Day, St. Matthew's Beer Festival Day, Sun Day & World Peace Day tinyurl.com/2by3y2tm

Beer In Ads #5084: It's Simply A Matter Of Good Taste tinyurl.com/5n8nz54u

Beer Birthday: Pete Coors tinyurl.com/bp9x9xz3

Beer in Art #1655 Banquet Beer, by Annie Scaglione, c. 2000s (Colorado, United States)

Beer Birthday: Marc Lemay tinyurl.com/ydmkuddf

Oktoberfest 2025 began in Munich, Germany today, and as they do every year, there's a poster contest to choose each year's official poster. Here is this year's winner.

Happy Birthday American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic Donald Hall (September 20, 1928–June 23, 2018)

Today's reason to drink? It's Big Whopper Liar Day, Curiosity Day, Gibberish Day, Idaho Spud Day, Locate An Old Friend Day, Nat'l Bakery Day, Nat'l Fried Rice Day, Nat'l Pepperoni Pizza Day, Nat'l Punch Day, Nat'l Sour Beer Day, Oktoberfest, Unification Day & World Paella Day tinyurl.com/33z8hy47

Beer In Ads #5083: Löwenbräu Bock-Bier tinyurl.com/mp47zs

Historic Beer Birthday: Coletta Möritz, Die Schützenliesl tinyurl.com/bdzjuua5

Today' Bock oddity is another "joke" of questionable hilarity from the Asheville Citizen Times, published on September 19, 1910.

Beer Birthday: Justin Crossley tinyurl.com/fp6k9fxp

Beer in Art #1654 Krampus Does Octoberfest, by Barbara Hranilovich, 2016 (Michigan, United States)

Beer Birthday: Keith Lemcke tinyurl.com/me8h5fyk

Happy Birthday American author best known for her detective fiction Laurie R. King (September 19, 1952- )

Today's reason to drink? It's Band Shirt Day, Biosphere Day, Chästeilet, Global Be(er) Responsible Day, International Grenache Day, Love Your Lunch Day, National Butterscotch Pudding Day, Popcorn Day, Talk Like A Pirate Day, What the Fork Day & World Day of the Apéritif tinyurl.com/3tfvw6rj

Beer In Ads #5082: Lucerne Bockbier tinyurl.com/2s3v9t79

Historic Beer Birthday: Louis X, Duke of Bavaria tinyurl.com/54zpt6w9

Beer Birthday: Jeff Lebesch tinyurl.com/yyfrnvwb

Beer in Art #1653 Ein Bier mit Dir (A Beer with You), by Alfred Koella, 1952 (Switzerland)

Beer Birthday: Don Barkley tinyurl.com/8cx8t3nd

Happy Birthday English writer who made lasting contributions as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, sermonist, biographer, editor, and lexicographer Samuel Johnson (September 18, 1709–December 13, 1784)

Today's reason to drink? It's Amoeba Assimilation Day, Celebrate Your Name Day, Free Queso Day, National Brett Day, National Cheeseburger Day, National Red Velvet Cake Day, National Sour Beer Day, Rice Krispies Treats Day, World Bamboo Day & World Water Monitoring Day tinyurl.com/3wu8s74d

Beer In Ads #5081: Manru Year-Round Bock tinyurl.com/bpa33juw

Historic Beer Birthday: John Fitzgerald tinyurl.com/rtww5n8t

Beer in Art #1652 Fermenting Rounds Room (Cross Street Brewery, Burton), by Unknown Artist, 1889 (Great Britain)

Historic Beer Birthday: Theodore R. Helb tinyurl.com/mr4yjhsu

WEEVIL WEDNESDAY #12 Nurse Jackie Weevil is at the Southeast Health Enterprise Clinic, located at 101 Professional Lane, along with Dr. Weevil. To find out what this is all about, here's the story: tinyurl.com/weevilway

Historic Beer Birthday: John Ewald Siebel tinyurl.com/mspmstak

Beer in Art #1651 Allegory of Intemperance, by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1495-1500 (Netherlands)

Beer Birthday: Stan Hieronymus tinyurl.com/5cct9nv5

Happy Birthday American poet and physician William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883–March 4, 1963)

Today's reason to drink? It's Apple Dumpling Day, Constitution Day, Guess Who Day, International Lambic Day, Naked Bicycle Race Day, National Bakery Day, National Beignet Day, National Monte Cristo Day, National Table Shuffleboard Day, Time’s Up Day & Wear Purple Day tinyurl.com/3jkzryas

Beer In Ads #5080: Berg-Bräu Ur-Bock tinyurl.com/3jak8hx9

Historic Beer Birthday: Hildegard of Bingen tinyurl.com/3tuf6kmu

Today's Bock oddity was this blurb entitled "Rag Time" published September 16, 1909 in the Hope Pioneer of Hope, North Dakota.

Historic Beer Birthday: Simon Linser tinyurl.com/a83ehzpf

Beer in Art #1650 Carlsberg Picnic, by Asger Jerrild, c. 2000s (Denmark)

Beer Birthday: Evan Rail tinyurl.com/unm6yyd4

Happy Birthday American essayist and short-story writer James Alan McPherson (September 26, 1943–July 27, 2016)

Today' reason to drink? It's Aluminum Foil Day, Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day, Collect Rocks Day, Cynicism Appreciation Day, Human Sustainability Awareness Day, Nat'l Choose Your Chocolate Day, Nat'l ‘Clink’ and Drink Champagne Day, Nat'l Guacamole Day & World Play-Doh Day tinyurl.com/54dtcpmu