You're right, I should have qualified that statement with "for most people…". I doubt your claim that this sort of beer savouring is "common in US bars" (or if

You're right, I should have qualified that statement with "for most people…". I doubt your claim that this sort of beer savouring is "common in US bars" (or if it is commonly available, I doubt that it is commonly ordered). To put it another way, compare the amount of alcohol ingested on an average evening where beer was the primary beverage vs. an average evening where wine was the primary beverage. I don't have data to back this up and it's not like I drink heavily myself, but my instinct and experience tells me alcohol-for-wine consumption is much lower than beer's, and so it is in most people's minds.