Cheers!

In honor of IPA day, I draw your attention to a book that I featured on Book Notes NH earlier this year. IPA: Brewing Techniques, Recipes and the Evolution of India Pale Ale by Mitch Steele (Boulder, CO: Brewers Publications, 2012) is the perfect book for the day. If reading about beer isn't your thing, perhaps reading a book set, at least partly, in India would be the proper way to celebrate: A Passage to India, The God of Small Things, The Namesake, and My Nine Lives are all excellent. 
If you need a beverage while you are reading I suggest you sample one of these fabulous IPAs: Heady Topper (The Alchemist), Stone Cali-Belgique, White Birch's Hooksett Ale.