I never was much of a beer drinker as a kid.  Of course, all I had access to was the crappy three-two beer sold in Minnesota convenience stores so I wasn’t really missing much.  When I was assigned to Aneerin’s fleet, I discovered some kind of honeyed mead or something that was really worth drinking for the taste.  Then I discovered German beer and German beer maids and realized that there really was good beer, and good reasons to go find it.