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...Harvard, not being a beer drinker carries a stigma. If you abstain from alcohol—“even beer?!”—then you’re labeled a wuss. If you drink, but opt for something else, than you run the risk of being considered a liquor snob. And it’s hard not to come out of the closet as a non-beer drinker. The Queen’s Head—Harvard’s gleaming, retro social space du jour—has a beer-centric menu and a calendar...
Rationally, I can understand why people love beer. It’s cheap, it’s conducive to drinking games, and you can drink a Solo cup full of it without landing in University Health Services. But every time my father offers me a sip from his bottle during a football game, or I find myself with a can of Natty Lite at a room party, I’m going to pass on it. And it’s not because I’m a killjoy...
...Beer is in dire need of help—your help...
...beer has been the subject of decades of horrifying mistreatment and ignorance. The proverbial American “cold one”—Bud, Miller, or Beast—is a travesty, an affront to human dignity...
Thankfully, Harvard’s Queen’s Head Pub is making small steps in the right direction, having hosted Beer School and Oktoberfest in the past two weeks. Still, there is much more work to be done—far from abandoning its focus on beer, the Pub needs to redouble its energies and rid itself of its last bad beers and “malternatives...