Dean and Mindy: Revisiting 2018: We wonder about Abraham Lincoln's favorite bar

This Dean and Mindy walk into a bar post from February 11, 2018, is worth another read today. I wonder: what would Abraham Lincoln think of our quest to visit a bar and a church in every state in the country he served? Would he buy a copy of Cheers and Amen? As a shopkeeper, would he have stocked it in his Illinois general store with a liquor license?

Abraham Lincoln's birthday is tomorrow, and have you ever wondered about the drinking habits of the 16th President of the United States? I hadn't really thought much about it, but as soon as I started researching, I realized that I'd chosen the wrong President for a post on bars.

Even though his father probably worked at a distillery, even though he and his grocery store partner seem to have had the equivalent of a liquor license for their business (grocery stores back in the day sometimes served as the town bar, I guess), Lincoln seems to have been the kind of drinker Dean is when we aren't visiting (and writing about) bars and churches. The Great Emancipator seemed to have accepted a glass of champagne or whatever when the occasion called for it -- without drinking more than a sip.

Still, I wonder. If President Lincoln had found himself traveling with us, would any of these bars have felt comfortable? Which do you like best?