From there beer weathered a Revolution, Prohibition and a right turn at Albuquerque before positively exploding with deregulation of the industry through the early 1980s.
Beer has, since the founding of the Republic, been this sort of glue that held us together way back when Sam Adams was plotting the revolution in the taverns over a beer, or Thomas Jefferson was sitting at the Queen's Head tavern in Philadelphia, drafting the Declaration of Independence over an American brew.