IT’S TIME TO CELEBRATE
Repeal Day is here!

JENS LUNDQVIST
Bartender

Repeal Day is the only day, which truly has any connection with alcohol. December 5th is the anniversary of the day the United States repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and gave us all the constitutional right to take a drink.

Before the Volstead Act that is the popular name for National Prohibition Act was enforced in 1920, pretty much the only thing that was illegal was the manufacture of alcohol. After Volstead had his way, you couldn’t sell drink or transport the stuff unless you had a prescription from your local doctor and for 13 long years the only ones controlling it was Al Capone and his friends. On March 13, 1933, a few days after he was sworn in as the 32nd president, Franklin D Roosevelt asked Congress to modify the Volstead Act to legalize 3.2 percent alcohol beer to provide needed tax revenue. By April 7, beer was legal in most of the country. On December 5, 1933, Utah became the thirty-sixth state to pass the Twenty-first Amendment. National alcohol prohibition was repealed, effective immediately.

If you want to read more, please check out Jeffrey Morgenthaler who have been going on about it for years. Now that you know more about Repeal Day why not start your celebration with a Volstead.

Chill a cocktail glass with ice or in the freezer. Pour orange juice, raspberry juice, rye whiskey and swedish punch into a shaker. Fill the shaker with ice cubes and shake it until the shaker is very cold. Empty the cocktail glass from ice and water. Strain the drink into the cocktail glass.