[discostu]

1 - If the beer smells dreadful that means it's cheap crappy beer, in the common parlance: skunky beer. Skunky beer is to be foisted off on young members of the clan, it helps discourage their natural curiousity about booze
2 - The list of things that make people act really stupid is long and includes members of the opposite sex, avoiding those things can be bad for survival of the clan

We drink it because we have better taste than you.

[BSunday]

2 - The list of things that make people act really stupid is long and includes members of the opposite sex, avoiding those things can be bad for survival of the clan

True, and the list also includes things that are exremely mean spirited, such as the teachings of my more fundamentalist brethren in the real church. Unlike them, I am able to drink one beer and stop, and continue to be nice to people (not that I currently choose to exercise that right)