Beer was a recurring theme in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who at one point said: “Yes. Yes, we drank beer. My friends and I. Boys and girls. Yes, we drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer. We drank beer. The drinking age, as I noted, was 18. So the seniors were legal senior year in high school. People were legal to drink and we drink, yeah, we drank beer. And I said sometimes — sometimes we probably had too many beers, and sometimes other people had too many beers. We drank beer. We liked beer.”

Kavanaugh’s beer-drinking habits became the fodder of a “Saturday Night Live” opening skit in which Kavanaugh (played by Matt Damon) declares, “I’m usually an optimist: I’m a keg-is-half-full kind of guy.” The line prompted the skit’s largest laugh from the audience.