Beer Gate:

[teachableseconds]

(Pasted from Michael Sneed's column in the Chicago Suntimes)


The Tippling Trio: Is Obama's choice of American beer to quaff in the Oval Office creating a brew stew?

• Consider: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs noted Obama had a Budweiser during the All-Star Game in St. Louis, but fell short of naming the specific American beer he'd drink. (There are soooo many.)

• Gates-gate: Gates tells the Boston Globe he is partial to Red Stripe and Beck's, which happen to be foreign beers . . . and are not stocked at the White House.

• Blue brew: Crowley, who has refused to apologize for his decision to arrest Gates, is a fan of Colorado-brewed Blue Moon beer, which is traditionally served with a slice of orange. (Not a slice of bitter lemon?)

Will these guys all end up drinking iced tea?"

*Am I the only person who suspects that Obama prefers chablis to Old Style?:rofl: Are the conspicuous pics of him tippling the brewskis to appease the bitter clingers? :rofl:

[LisaM]

1. Gad. Seattle is loaded with beer snobs

Every now and then, especially on a hot day, I just want a good old macrobrew, served ice cold.

[teachableseconds]

3. I don't drink (well, used to) and never could swallow beer (unless I had been drinking wine all

night): why do they call it 'microbrewing?'

[brendan120678]

4. A micro-brew is a beer that comes from...

a small, usually independent brewery.

A micro-brewery. Not a corporate, large-scale brewery,

[teachableseconds]

6. Aha! I thought it was the process...There is this soft drink

called Malta, which I enjoy. It's got hops, pale malt, and sugar (well, HFCS:scared: ). It's like beer w/ sugar!:woohoo: And even though there's no alcohol, you get mellowed out by the hops...

[Interloper]

2. Sam Adams BOSTON LAGER

They are from Boston after all
and, what could be more American?

[WorseBeforeBetter]

15. They might be Sam Adamsed out. I say go *neutral* with a Swiss beer...

and give the media blowhards something (more) to crow about.

http://www.cerveza.ch/swiss.shtml

Or better yet, Kronenberg. :P

[NeedleCast]

18. Sam Adams Boston Lager isn't brewed in Boston

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. I'm guessing Obama is drinking Budweiser because it USED TO BE based in Illinois (just like he was)

But it's now a foreign owned corporation. And their beer still sucks.

Blue Moon is brewed by Coors. An American company, but horribly right wing (and also horrible beer)

There has to be some decent micro brews within a Secret Service beer run from the White House. Hell, Dogfish Head is in Delaware. Send Biden over there on the Amtrak to pick up some of that stuff! :beer:

http://www.dogfish.com/brews-spirits/the-brews/index.htm

[KamaAina]

7. Dogfish (from Delaware, not Maryland) is served in DC

that's where I had it a couple of years ago. Yummers! :beer:

[brendan120678]

11. I'm pretty sure that Anheuser-Busch...

was headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri from the start.

Not Illinois.

[Yunomi]

13. Correct.

Budweiser, the beer for people who don't like beer. May I suggest Real Ale brews(from Blanco, TX), either Rio Blanco Pale Ale or Fireman's 4.

[brendan120678]

17. I prefer dry stouts, myself. (nt)

[Crabby Appleton]

8. Is Biden going to be at the secret undisclosed location

ready to take over if Obama gets shitfaced with the boys?

[teachableseconds]

12. Um...yeah, great idea!

:rofl:

[LuvNewcastle]

9. Sierra Nevada is good, if you

have to drink American. I would be serving Newcastle, of course.

[PVnRT]

10. It's all about the Pabst Blue Ribbon

Best cheap beer you can buy.

[-..__...]

14. Just ask Frank Booth...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snhiofL2Rh4

(NSFW)

[dugaresa]

16. I forgot that scene, gosh that was funny.

disturbing character, funny quotes.