Vas you effer in Zinzinnati???

Mark Sullivan takes pains to point out that, since Sam Adams is brewed in Cincinnati, there is no point to be gained against anti-Catholicism by boycotting the Boston Brewing Company.

Take heart, Mark. Cincinnati is, to this day, the motherland of German Catholicism, and the home of a number of fine breweries. My kid brother kept a stash of Schoenling's Little Kings Cream Ale throughout his college years. I should also mention that the "Queen City of the West" is home to my favorite hard cider, Hard Core, one of the few made without preservatives (although they stopped making the dark variety, but not before I started hoarding supplies).

By now, Mr Vere is fuming -- no doubt in preparation for extolling the natural superiority of Canadian brews. Go ahead, sonny boy. Do your worst!