It says much for a country that despite enduring some of the most difficult years in its history recently, that even its darkest hour the people are still more than happy to have a day long drinkathon, and if you take a peek at the history books you can see why. Incredibly until 1989 the sale of any alcohol over 2.25% was completely banned, however, on March 1st that year it was lifted and a National Beer Day was declared. Icelanders like to have their foot firmly on the ‘celebrator’ most weekends but today there should be pub-crawls up and down the country with the good folk of Reykjavik getting the most excited.
