Well, if they know any American history at all, they know that the Revolution was fomented (fermented)in the taverns and brew-houses where the Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Corespondence met. Can't have those free-thinkers sitting around smoking, drinking and plotting the local Stalin's political demise now, can we? I was thinking that, but most pubs today don't seem like that. I could be quite wrong, of course, since I've only been in a few...