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On the afternoon of July 10, 1973, Mike Royko was not drinking but instead was washing glasses and was ready, if the need arose, to “break up fights.” He was conducting a beer-tasting event that had been born when Royko declared that “Budweiser, America’s most popular beer, tastes like it was run through the bladder of a horse.” The newspaper columnist had gathered 11 people to drink 22 beers .