Breakfast of Champions

I remember my first breakfast beer very clearly. It was 2012. I was flying Lufthansa from the Frankfurt airport to Athens when the beverage and snack cart rolled by, offering the usual complimentary coffee, tea, sodas — and beer. There was something so novel about the idea of drinking a beer with my breakfast that I had to do it. So there I sat, at 35,000 feet, enjoying a crisp and refreshing wheat ale at 7 a.m. with my relatively respectable in-flight breakfast among a sea of passengers sipping their apple juice and ginger ale… read more >