His father was called Bevo, after a near-beer bottled by Anheuser-Busch. "My dad drank it all the time," Francis says. "They called him Bevo, me Little Beve. I finally outgrew that." Due to anemia ...

All was going well, according to the 21-year-old, until what he thought at the time was his first test: an offer of a beer. “It was just a night at his house for a bit of dinner; his wife Dana cooked ...