★ THE BREW CREW / FRAN CARADONNA

hold back a smile when she tries to explain how different things were when she first got onto the scene. When she tried her first sips of Beck’s Dark and St. Pauli Girl in the early ’80s, there a scene. “It’s hard to explain that to people today,” Caradonna says. “It wasn’t nearly as interesting, but we didn’t know what we were missing.”