There's a day for everything, and that includes beer. There is a National Beer Day, which is officially observed on April 7th. Even the Governor of Virginia says so.
So why April 7? That was the day in 1933 that the Cullen–Harrison Act went into effect. It allowed the production of low-alcohol beer, which it defined as 3.2% ABW or the more modern 4.0% ABV. This was the first legislative blow against Prohibition in the US, which would be fully repealed with the ratification of the 21st Amendment later that year.
After signing the bill into law, President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said: "I think this would be a good time for a beer."
Indeed it is.
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