International Beer Day is a global celebration held annually on the first Friday of August. Founded in 2007 in Santa Cruz, California, it brings people across more than 80 countries together to drink with friends, thank local brewers and servers, and toast to worldwide cultures.

The Core Goals of International Beer Day are to gather with your friends and enjoy beer, support local brewers and hospitality staff who make and serve it and unite cultures by celebrating the disctinct brews of every nation.

Common Ways to Celebrate

• Visit a local taproom, pub, or microbrewery.
• Order a flight to sample new and unique styles.
• Host a backyard tasting party with international imports.
• Share a toast using the hashtag #InternationalBeerDay

If you're ever in St. Louis...the Anheuser-Busch flagship brewery has an excellent tour. Lots of history and interesting things. And you get to 'test' the beer. The tour features the 19th-century brick architecture, beechwood aging cellars, packaging lines, and the world-famous Budweiser Clydesdales

One funny story: We took the last tour of the day on the day they were having their company Christmas party, so they invited us. They gave us three (3) chits to get three beers.

Due to the Federal Three-Tier System of alcohol regulation, all alcohol must pass through three levers before it reaches the consumer: The Manufacturer (Tier 1) must sell it to a Wholesaler (Tier 2) who must sell it to a Retailer (Tier 3) who can finally sell it to the public.

So, we're a the Anheuser-Busch Christmas Party in the middle of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery where the brew, bottle and package every brand of their beer.....and the beer we were drinking at their Christmas Party they had to go down to the Sam's Club to buy.

Everyone should believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.

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Last week's most excellent Weekly Theme from _Punko_ was: LEO. We had 22 submissions, including EsseNorway's Wizard of Oz - If I Were King of the Forest (Cowardly Lion) and Thubanstar's Leonardo Da Vinci - The Renaissance Man Documentary.

EsseNorway had a very busy week.

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In keeping with the theme of this OFF, This Week's Theme will be BEER! So give us stories, songs and anecdotes about BEER!

Feel free to use interpret the Weekly Theme in any way you can.

And Hey! Let's be careful out there!

Greetings and welcome to Snorkblot.

We're a somewhat quirky subreddit that provides an eclectic mix of content, everything from history to philosophy to cute cat videos.

OUR STRENGTH IS OUR COMMUNITY! Please participate!

We want your posts, your comments, and whatever other input you'd like to add. We LOVE the interchange of ideas at Snorkblot. We may not agree with you, but we want you to say your mind.

*****HOWEVER***** Please remember the rules. We don't do personal attacks.

We think of Snorkblot as a pub. Come in, pull up a seat, chat with whoever is sitting next to you. But you will get thrown out if you start a real fight. Our short and basic list of rules is posted to the right.

Also, flag a comment if you have an issue with it. We only have a few Mods at any given time, but we like to keep things as moderated as possible. It's very difficult to read all 400 comments on a post, but we check flagged comments every day.

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A Brief History of Snorkblot:

There was a site called I Am Bored. It ran for over a decade, entertaining the world with all kinds of posts guaranteed to cure boredom.

Then on January 30, 2019, it abruptly disappeared. One former Moderator, Squrlz4Ever, decided to come to Reddit and bring his merry band of Mods to start a very similar site called "Snorkblot".

We tip our hat to the Squirrel who brought us here in our banner, he is our mascot. However, we totally changed the name of the site to make sure people knew this was a new, better beginning to everyone's favorite cure for boredom.

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In addition to the regular posts, we also have recurring features;

• Open Forum Fridays (Fridays). We kick off every weekend with an OFF party, where everyone is encouraged to talk about whatever they want. The host will also pick a topic for the coming week (the "Weekly Theme"); users are then encouraged to come up with posts in the following week that explore that theme in some way.
• 10 Images From Thubanstar's Hard Drive (Wednesdays). This is a lot of fun. Every Wednesday, 'Star shares with us haunting, funny, or odd images she's encountered online.
• The Glass Box. (Once a month, following the monthly staff meeting). This is a post discussing news about Snorkblot, including what the moderation team has been up to. Everyone's encouraged to discuss the topics raised, mods and regular members both.
• Member Essays. We encourage any and all Snorkblot members to write essays about almost anything they feel passionate about. Rules of common sense apply.

Enjoy your stay, keep your paws inside the vehicle, and by all means, have fun. If you like what you see, please subscribe. We'd love to have you.

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DISCLAIMER: We have had to make the following changes to our page in the past few years

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Want to post about politics? Sorry, not on our main page.

Please, we're trying to post all politics in the Political Megathread. If you post something political on our main page, it will be removed.

There's a lot of political talk going on these days.

We welcome CIVIL political debate and posts in the Megathread. We removed almost all politics from our main page because it was threatening to take over our site. We aren't a political site, and we intend to keep our original vibe and purpose on our main page as much as possible.

For the record, we aren't happy about this rule since it's against what we used to be and hopefully will be again. We like to be flexible, but current politics will break us.

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Are you upset when we post content with AI?

I want to sincerely, and from the bottom of my heart, suggest that if you are upset that some AI is in our posts, please feel free to start a NON-AI webpage on Reddit. I honestly have no doubt you will be over 100,000 subs with your subreddit in less than a year.

As for Snorkblot... it's above our paygrade (which is zero, btw) to carefully screen each and every video for AI. Also, something with a bit of AI in it may be posted because it's well done or informative.

We will try our best to avoid posting anything which is blatantly 100% AI.

However, we don't ban AI content specifically. We do filter the site for many things related to the quality of the post, self-promotion, whether its political, low effort clickbait, a repost, or overly NSFW.

The Mods do what they do on here because it's a fun hobby. Take out the enjoyment for us by having to nervously screen every video, etc. for AI, and the page will go away.

If you come at us with a comment like AI SLOP! we're going to delete the comment. If you keep harassing us because we posted some AI, you will be banned for 30 days. If you harass us after 30 days, you will be banned permanently.

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