National Beer Day 2022: Where To Grab A Brew In Waukesha

WAUKESHA, WI — Many breweries around Waukesha will be open to celebrate the end of Prohibition with one of the most popular alcoholic drinks on the planet: Beer.

National Beer Day, which is on Thursday this year, marks the anniversary of the Cullen-Harrison Act passed in March of 1933, which eased the restrictions of Prohibition. The 21st Amendment, passed on Dec. 5, 1933, repealed Prohibition altogether nine months later.

There's no better place to celebrate the day but in Wisconsin, where local beers like New Glarus and Leinenkugel's are distributed across the state. Milwaukee was dubbed one of the best cities for millennial dads for its concentration of microbreweries, according to a moveBuddha report.

Here are some local Waukesha breweries, bars and other watering holes to grab a pint on Thursday.

• House of Guiness, 354 W Main St., Waukesha
• BrewCade Pub, 257 W Broadway, Waukesha
• Raised Grain Brewing Company, 1725 Dolphin Drive Suite B, Waukesha
• The Tap Yard, 1150 W Sunset Drive, Waukesha
• Stock House Brewing Co., 7208 W North Ave., Wauwatosa
• Biloba Brewing 2970 N. Brookfield Road, Brookfield
• Delafield Brewhaus, 3832 Hillside Dr, Delafield

The Brewers Association picked three Wisconsin breweries among its top 50 breweries in an annual report in 2021.

• New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus ranked No. 12
• Minhas Craft Brewery in Monroe ranked No. 17
• Stevens Point Brewery in Stevens Point ranked No. 18

D.G. Yuengling and Son Inc. in Pottsvile, Pennsylvania ranked No. 1 for top independent craft breweries in 2021, as it did in 2020. The Boston Beer Company and the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, placed second and third.

"Craft brewer sales rebounded in 2021, lifted by the return of draught and at-the-brewery traffic," association economist Bart Watson said in a statement. Performance was mixed across different businesses and locations, and production still lags behind 2019 which suggests that many breweries are still recovering.