It’s Pisces and Aries season! If you’re feeling transformative, here are 5 beer holidays in March 2025 to help you connect with others and celebrate as we head into spring.
Mardi Gras - Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Dating back to medieval Europe, Mardi Gras is the final day of Carnival. French for Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras is the tradition of eating rich, fatty, and excessive foods before the restrictions of Lent begin. In the 1870s, New Orleans began evolving into the Mardi Gras capital we know today. Starting in 1873, the iconic parade floats began to be constructed exclusively in New Orleans, and in 1875 the “Mardi Gras Act” was signed, which made Fat Tuesday a legal holiday in Louisiana.
International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day/ International Women’s Day - Saturday, March 8, 2025
Founded in 2014 by the Head Brewer at Burnt Mill Brewery Sophie de Ronde, International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day (ICWBD) is a beer holiday dedicated to celebrating women in the beer industry, facilitating networking and collaborative brewing, and raising money for various women’s causes. She contacted the Pink Boots Society, and and ICWBD was born. Women from various countries work together to brew a beer named Unite; every year a different style of beer is chosen for the collaboration.
St. Patrick’s Day - Monday, March 17, 2025
Saint Patrick’s Day started in Ireland, but it was emigrants to the United States who transformed it into the spectacular celebration is has become. The first St. Patrick’s Day parade in Boston was in 1737, while New York City’s inaugural Saint Patrick’s Day Parade was in 1762. Intentionally green beer became part of the celebration around 1910 when a newspaper headline proclaimed that “Green Beer Be Jabbers”, and in 1926 The Washington Post referred to it as “an anomalous concoction”. Now, green beer is a staple at many Saint Patrick’s Day celebrations, and more than half a million people line the streets to see the Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade, while 2 million attendees turn Fifth Avenue into a sea of green at the annual NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
National Bock Day - Thursday, March 20, 2025
National Bock Beer Day is a celebration of the traditional German bock. Originally brewed in Germany during the fourteenth century, this lager quickly became popular. Now available in variants including Helles Bock, Heller Bock, Dunkel Bock, and others, bock beer labels often include a goat. Why a goat? It turns out that Einbeck, the town in Germany where the bock style originated, was easily mispronounced in Bavaria as ein bock…which, in German, translates to billy goat.
International Orval Day - Saturday, March 22, 2025
Orval Day is a celebration of one of the most unique, respected, and historical beers in the world: Orval Trappist Ale. Orval Trappist Ale is the only beer brewed by the Notre Dame d’Orval Monastery, which was originally built in 1070. Brewed by monks in a forest near the French/Belgian border, this Trappist bear is brewed using only natural ingredients.
Which one of these beer holidays in March 2025 will you be celebrating?