Crap Beer at White House

I just want to echo Dave Brockington's dismay over the president's taste in beer (not to mention his glacially slow pace of reform, no doubt aimed at winning issues over the long term).

Bud Lite? Honestly? Fire the staffer who made that suggestion. First of all, you're a Harvard-educated lawyer, not a blue-collar Chicago guy, no one is going to believe you actually drink Bud Lite. Second of all, it's a crap beer. Budweiser may have great Superbowl commercials, but let's not pretend that this Belgian-owned company actually brews the "King of Beers."

As for Joe Biden's non-alcoholic choice, this is all I have to say. Say what you will about Prof. Henry Lewis Gates, at least he knew which beer to choose, even if it was a last-minute switch. President Obama should have gone with the recommendation for Sam Adams as well.

Comments

[Grung_e_Gene]

Sam Adams blows. Their commercials were they challenge you to drink a beer with 7 times the hops is akin to challenging someone to eat a Beef Stew with 7 times the salt.

Bleech!

Obama is from Chicago therefore his choice should have been a Goose Island 312 or a Leinenkugel or Great Lakes Dortmunder Gold.

However, Harry used to be a Bud Man...

[Sock Puppet of the Great Satan]

Nobody went for "Arrogant Bastard Ale"?

http://www.arrogantbastard.com/index3.html

[Ray]

I can thoroughly recommend two Adult Beers: from an Old Established, family run, local:

Harveys, in Sussex, England. Also King and Barnes, of the same county. Smells of hops, and darkly dangerous.

[YT]

Ray: everone here on my side of the hemisphere hail to the Irish Guinness. Mix in two raw eggs in the morning & it becomes a powerful aphrodisiac (it is claimed), a health hazard for the elderly gents though in their holy grail for lengthened erections.