Return with us, and Mike Royko, to beer-tasting days of old
On the afternoon of July 10, 1973, Mike Royko was not drinking but instead was washing glasses and was ready, if the need arose, to “break up fights.” He was conducting a beer-tasting event that had been born when Royko declared that “Budweiser, America’s most popular beer, tastes like it was run through the bladder of a horse.” The newspaper columnist had gathered 11 people to drink 22 beers ...