Springfield's most patriotic drinks

Finnegan's Wake

Moose Drool

Price: $4.00

Apparently siphoned from the lips of a moose in Missoula, Mont., this dark beer, pulled by Finnegan's Wake bartender Katie, had a slightly bitter, hops-heavy taste. I had to take a picture of the draft pull, because only in America (pronounced "Uh-mur-eh-cuh") could a product name be so off-putting and still be selected for this story.

Unsettling as the mental picture may be, I still found this all-American brown ale quite tasty. It wasn't too thick, and it didn't go down quite as smoothly as a stout would, but overall, not a bad selection. What else really says patriotism quite like our beautiful natural resources? Majestic purple mountains, our sea-to-shining-sea, and the saliva of a stoic, sometimes aggressive, great, antlered mammal.