Today is Saint Patrick’s Day, a feast day that has been co-opted to celebrate Ireland and Irish heritage. Or, in the case of most Americans, parody it within an inch of its life as an excuse to drink one’s self silly.

There are plenty of other people who are lamenting what this holiday has become and doing it much more eloquently than I can, so I’ll leave that to them. (Have a look at our Beerroll or search on the Beer Blog Search Engine.)

As has become an annual tradition around here, Ron’s videos on pouring a Black and Tan have become quite popular in the last week or so, doubling and trebling traffic to those pages. Another Irish tradition that’s not really Irish, but they’re good nonetheless. (Update: today is officially our best day for web traffic ever.)

• How to Pour a Black & Tan
• How to Pour a Black and Tan – Take 2

I am someone who actually has some Irish blood in my family (my maternal grandmother was processed through Ellis Island when she came over in the twenties). I’ll just spend a quiet evening at home with some nice American craft beer and wondering what that earnest missionary from Roman Britain might have to say about all this.

Whatever you’re doing to celebrate, have fun and be safe.