People ask me what I did for my 21st birthday, and well, here is what I did. I guess maybe watching movies and drinking crap beer with kidz then talking with my mom later and worrying a bunch doesn’t amount to a great story, but it was a good night with friends I don’t see often enough. So thanks, guys!

Regarding Frank’s commentary on American beer being good once (a quite uncharacteristic statement for a Brit): it seems that the culprit was actually partly Prohibition and partly World War II! I know right? Greatest generation my eye! Basically, Prohibition came to a close not long before rationing started, but America just had to get its booze on, barley or no. The rationing more or less ensured that only major corporate brewing operations could survive, thus guaranteeing their dominance on the market for years to come.

So: the big corporations went The American (manufacturing) Way, which is to replace as many ingredients as possible with corn, because the only thing more economical than corn is slavery, and slaves don’t ferment well. The beer was awful but super cheap, and at the end of the day, that’s all that really matters.

(Note that the “today” in the comic is August 6, when the comic was drawn, not actually today.)

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