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by Richie Anderson, Ric

Just because you're too busy to travel all the way to Ireland to celebrate St. Patrick's Day doesn't mean that you can't have a good time celebrating Irish traditions. Chicago, New York City, Sydney, and even Tokyo have their own ways to celebrate the St. Patrick's Day holiday. What began as the feast of Ireland's patron saint has now grown into one of the biggest holidays celebrated anywhere in the world.

Up until 2002, St. Patrick's Day in Ireland was celebrated as more of a religious holiday, the way it used to be in the old days. Following the hoof and mouth disease scare that canceled parades in 2001, Dublin decided they should embrace the gimmicky shamrocks and green beer to help boost tourism. The 5-day Dublin St. Patrick's Day festival is now the largest St. Patrick's Day celebration in the country and has an attendance of over 700,000 people for parade day alone.

In the United States, green-clad partiers line the streets for parades in over a dozen cities. Boston, New York and Chicago host the most popular of these events, but you can even find a parade or two in New Orleans where the influence of Mardi Gras has led to an evolution of Saint Patrick's Day parades around the big easy. Even after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, locals and tourists alike will be able to catch their share of St. Patrick's Day beads tossed from elaborate parade floats.

Across the globe in Tokyo, Japanese citizens have been joining the Irish in celebration since 1992. The Tokyo parade is organized by the Irish Network Japan (INJ) with the support of the Embassy of Ireland. The Japanese love a good party and they are particularly fond of all things Irish - including Irish setters and Guinness beer for about $8.00 a pint! However, popular St. Patrick's Day parade highlights are the "free beer girls" who represent the local Irish taverns by handing out vouchers which are good for complimentary green beer.

Since the entire month of March is festival season down under, Sydney's calendar is full of events, many of them representing Irish culture. There are Irish heritage at breakfasts, lunches, dinners, balls, race days, golf days, and concerts. Of course, there'll be plenty rounds of drinks in Australia's more than 150 Irish pubs. However it's not all about drinks for Australia. A traditional Saint Patrick's Day Mass is held at St Mary's Cathedral in Sydney.

So there you have it. What once began as a traditional Irish holiday for spiritual renewal and offering prayers for missionaries worldwide, has now come to be associated with everything Irish: anything green and gold, shamrocks and luck. No matter where you are or what country you live in, chances are you will see a little bit of the "wearing of the green" on March 17th.

St Patrick's Day is a feast day on witch people from all over the globe traditionally proclaim themselves as "Irish for a day" and usually do that with the consumption of Irish alcoholic beverages like St Patrick's Day Beer and by wearing green-colored clothing. You can now create your own St Patrick's Day Beer and in this article we will tell you how to start.

Who celebrates St Patrick's Day?

Saint Patrick's Day or St. Paddy's Day is a feast day which celebrates Saint Patrick who was the patron saints of Ireland. St Patrick's Day is generally celebrated on March 17 and is a feast that is widely celebrated all over the world and not just in Ireland, countries like Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and United States also celebrate this day.

What is good St Patrick's Day Beer?

People usually drink Irish Stout or Guinness as a traditionally St Patrick's Day Beer. The key ingredient of Irish beer is Roasted Barley like in the classic Irish Stout. This gives the St Patrick's Day Beer a dry coffee like taste, a very dark color but still a white foam. You also see some green beer in the pups but this is usually not very nice to drink for people who like a good quality beer.

Make your own St Patrick's Day Beer

Making your own beer is not difficult at all and with Irish beer this is no different. A lot of people received a beer brewing kit for Christmas or as a special Valentine's day beer gift and are now testing a lot of different recipes. Beer brewing kits are a great way to make your own beer, it's a nice hobby and the end result is a batch of the best beer you have ever tasted. You can drink it with your family or with your friends. If you are interested to buy beer brewing kits you can look at the website at the end of this article. But if you already own such great equipment you can now start brewing your own St Patrick's Day Beer and have it ready in time, although Irish stout can be appreciated not just at St Patrick's day only. It is a great beer all year round.

Ingredients

The best thing you can do is buy a Complete Irish Stout Package, this contains all the ingredients you need to make a tasty beer. The package contains an Irish Stout beer kit, 500 gm Light Dry Malt Extract, Dextrose and Carbonation drops. Follow the enclosed instructions and we are sure you can brew a great St Patrick's day beer.

Celebrate in style

Do you know a better way to celebrate this feast day, almost the beginning of spring, all the people wearing green, everybody is happy and you are surrounded by your family and friends who are enjoying your own home brewed beer. Is there anything more rewarding than brewing your own St Patrick's day beer? A Irish stout dark brew displaying coffee, chocolate and licorice aromatics, roasty bitter notes with a dry finish. Mmmm, I can't wait until the batch in my garage is ready to drink.

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