Obama Beer Debate

Hi All,

What beer do you think should the White House choose for the "three guys" get together?

Regards, Byron

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bcollins
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``Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman, said there will be a “variety” of beers available, including Bud Lite (what President Obama will presumably drink), Red Stripe (Professor Gates’ professed choice) and Blue Moon for Sgt. Crowley.''

(bud light?! arghh....)

Judging from the pic:

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They look like they're actually having a good time! Ah, beer... :)

-miles

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Miles Bader

Far be it from be to defend Obama, but if he was seen drinking an import, the media and the American Beer industry would be all over him like stink on shit.

I have read that he drinks Miller Lite. So his taste in beer is worse than several of his appointees.

My advice to him would be to order cases from real craft brewers, e.g., Three Floyds, Dogfish, Kalamazoo, etc

Dick

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Dick Adams

I wouldn't use the same language, but even an A-B beer wasn't enough to shield him from this criticism, since it is now Belgian-owned.

Bud Light, actually. And this is the kind of comment that shows he really can't win in this situation. Everyone is going to read what they like into his most trivial action and use it to reinforce what they already thought.

The weekend before all this I went to a Smithsonian-sponsored seminar on Virginia beers. There are quite a few local brews that would have done just fine.

Dav Vandenbroucke davanden at cox dot net

Reply to
Dav Vandenbroucke

Something from local microbrew would have shown some class,

Reply to
Frog King

Yes, but which one? No matter what he chose, somebody would take issue with it. E.g., if he chose a Hook and Ladder beer, the people at Capital City would bitch about it, etc. As somebody pointed out, this is a no-win situation. And it really doesn't matter. Maybe the guys just drank what they wanted without analyzing it (except for the guy who changed his choice from Red Stripe to Sam Adams Light; he obviously read the pre-gathering chatter ;-).

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Joel

Hmm, never had Red Stripe; is it dire?

Of course Gates has been in academia so long that he may not be _capable_ of doing something without analyzing it...

:]

-miles

Reply to
Miles Bader

Not so much dire as just an average light American-style lager with no character. It was the political symbolizism that I think got him to change to an American-owned and -brewed beer (though brewed in Cincinnati probably, rather than Boston, the home of the Sam Adams corporate headquarters).

I hear ya. ;-)

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Joel

Joel wrote, On 08/07/2009 05:49 AM:

It *might* have been brewed in Cincinnati. But it also might have been brewed by Boston Beer's primary contract brewer, Miller, which is foreign-owned. Spot the (very minor) irony.

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dgs: dem echten treu

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