April 7 is National Beer Day. This year marks the 85th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Cullen-Harrison Act, which permitted the sale of beer in the U.S. even before the official end of Prohibition. When he signed the new law, President Roosevelt declared, “I think this would be a good time for beer.”

To celebrate beer’s legalization, Americans across the country gathered outside breweries on April 7, 1933, when the new law went into effect, and enjoyed 1.5 million barrels of beer, inspiring National Beer Day today. Eighty-five years later, we continue to toast beer as America’s most popular alcohol beverage.