There is a longstanding connection between college and beer. The first universities in Europe in the 1000s AD were  associated with ale. From the first American colleges in the colonies, taverns were built near places of higher learning. During Prohibition, students got more creative in acquiring beer and booze. For 50 years after, Hollywood movies celebrated college drinking, from “Animal House” to “Old School” to “Neighbors 2.”

When local Mike Dorval was in college, there were some beer-related high jinks, but there was more appreciation for the…