the White House has a home brew

[mominatrix]

niiiiiiice!

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Revealed: The president brews his own beer, and brings it with him on the road
12:03 PM, Aug 14, 2012 | by Jason Noble | Comments Categories: Iowa Politics Insider

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Copyright Register & Tribune Company, 2012

If you want to ride President Barack Obama’s motorcoach, be advised: it’s BYOB.

In perhaps the most startling revelation so far in Obama’s three-day bus tour across Iowa, it was revealed this morning that the White House brews its own beer, and that the presidential bus is stocked with bottles of that beer.

The revelation came incidentally, when a man at the Knoxville coffee shop where Obama stopped today somehow got the president onto the subject of beer, and Obama noted that a sample of the White House’s home brew was just outside.

(The existence of White House home brew has been previously reported, in a spate of stories in 2011.)

Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Obama gave the man a full bottle of said beer, retrieved from the bus.

In a press gaggle a short time later, White House Spokesman Jay Carney took several questions about the beer, some which he could answer, others he could not.

The beer comes in two varieties, light and dark, Carney said. He has personally sampled the lighter brew, and declared it “refreshing.”

“It is superb,” he said. “It is quite good.”

Does the president himself drink the beer? Indeed he does, Carney said.

And why wasn’t the ultra-local ale served at the famed beer summit at the White House in 2009? Because that was before the brewing began he said.

And who, finally, is the beermeister in charge of brewing it all up?

“I have exhausted my knowledge of this subject,” Carney said. “When someone hands me a beer I don’t ask how it was made, I just drink it.”

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[wawa]

“When someone hands me a beer I don’t ask how it was made, I just drink it.”

good man.

[pixy0stix]

Just when I think I can't love Obama even more...

[soontobeka]

We're informed that the honey for White House Honey Ale comes from another relatively new facility, the garden created by first lady Michelle Obama.

content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2012/08/newly-revealed-white-house-facility-a-brewery/1

[downtoearth]

This is pretty fun to know.

[msmerymac]

I actually heard this from a homebrewer at a talk I went to a few weeks ago. That Obama brews beer and drinks it while watching football. He also said that the last president to brew beer in the White House was Thomas Jefferson. (George Washington - well, his wife - also made beer. Not too many commercial breweries around at that time!)

[marie427]

Aug 15, 2012 11:37:26 GMT -5 msmerymac said:

(George Washington - well, his wife - also made beer. Not too many commercial breweries around at that time!)

Fun Factoid Of The Day That I Might Edit Out At Some Point So Please Don't Quote Me:

My employer has Washington's personal handwritten recipe for beer.

[Chirp]

Aug 15, 2012 11:34:55 GMT -5 downtoearth said:

This is pretty fun to know.

cosigned

[teflep]

So, was this what was served at the great BEER Summit?

[mrshandy]

Way Cool. I feel like I read that somewhere before.

We just started homebrewing 9-10 months ago. It's fun since DH does most of the work and I get to enjoy the beer!

We call ourselves "Naptime Brewers."

We're trying to come up with a name for our latest IPA that is pro-Obama election related. Past names have included

Inaugural IPA (our first brew)

Snowpocalypse Brown Ale

K Street Kiwheat