I think we are definitely a lets go for a beer society. I remember when a mna made an escape route via my house the police (who were raiding next door at the time) were very nice. They offered me a brandy.

I usually use a cup of coffee in like fashion but it's mostly because beer here tastes like the water they washed the keg with and I never aquired a taste for it. Unless I am mowing grass and I plan to go back to it. If I'm done for the day, I'd rather have a gin and tonic.

One of the blessings of the Rise of the Widget is that even here in the Benighted Hinterlands we can now have somethign that more closely resembles a pint, being properly foamy without being thin and fizzy.