Get your facts straight.

first of all, I agree with Benjamin Franklin as well, and absolutely sincerely.

Second, I actually have two favorite beer brands: one is Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrüb, and the other one is Tuborg Twist.

We surely can find real beer, which can be healthy, when drunk moderately, but most of the brands sold today refer to ones described in the article. Well, of course, it depends on what you call “real beer”. For some “real beer” is only that one they prefer to drink, while everything else is “dishwater”. Some can consult Wikipedia, for example, to get the definition…

Second, I do wonder what the “favorite sort of a certain brand” of this author is, since he or she correctly points out that many of the health benefits of beer disappear or decrease upon things like pasteurization, using rice, wheat, and corn, or having 12 percent alcohol (only achievable by artificial blending) – practices which, while illegal in some countries, are typical for all of the large US mass brews, but not of concern when consuming real beer.
Calling the latter a ‘rarely made classic’ ignores the the ubiquitous availability – in part a result of the microbrew trend – of healthy, natural, import and sometimes even purity-law compliant beers.