Bulgarian Brewers’ holiday

In 1996 the Managing Board of the Bulgarian Brewers Union declared July 20 a holiday of the brewers in Bulgaria. Then the time abbot of the Bachkovo monastery father Naum found a text saying that God sent St. Ilia to punish the sinful Judaic and ordered him to teach them making a drink of grain which would not make them drunk. Traditionally in July Bulgarians drink 4 times more beer than in February.