refresh ~ this is about to fall off the bottom of the page without a single response. I'm glad to have seen it, just in time, so I'm saving it for someone else to enjoy.

Sorry I can't respond immediately (or ever, probably) with a complete composition, but the idea itself in entertaining enough.

The son in America, these days, might well be pouring pints of the house-brand dark stuff at McSorley's in lower Manhattan, just off Cooper Square...