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March 17th of each year is virtually defined by the color green. Everywhere you look on that day in mid-March you will find people wearing green, will see streets and buildings decorated in green, and you’ll even find people eating green bagels and drinking green beer. Why? Because it’s St. Patrick’s Day, of course!

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Green Beer. What comes to mind? Young beer? Beer with food coloring in it? Beer that gets you stoned? Eco friendly beer? Beer naturally colored with spirulina? What’s spirulina? There’s a lot of things it might mean. Here we will discuss the tradition of Green beer that has to do only with color.

This is a recent tradition associated most often with St. Patty’s day, although not in Ireland. From all accounts, Green Beer seems to be a tradition only in North America, where “Irish pride” tends to encompass a kind of enthusiasm verging on the overzealous. Especially in a college town called Oxford, Ohio, where college students take to the streets early for their “Green Beer Day”.

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