Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe

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Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 1, 2012 @11:18AM from the all-the-white-house-recipes-should-be-online dept.

wiredmikey writes "Sam Kass, White House Assistant Chef and the Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives, after much buzz, today released the recipe for White House Honey Ale and White House Honey Porter, two brews made right on site at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. According to Kass, the White House Honey Brown Ale is the first alcohol brewed or distilled on the White House grounds, as far as they know. "George Washington brewed beer and distilled whiskey at Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson made wine but there's no evidence that any beer has been brewed in the White House. (Although we do know there was some drinking during prohibition)," Kass wrote in a blog post. The recipe can be found here along with a short video 'Inside The White House Beer Brewing' which shows the brewing in process. Your tax dollars hard at work yet again!"

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Hey! by rsilvergun · 2012-09-01 11:26 · Score: 4, Funny

This would be a great time for the two candidates to sit down over a beer and talk... oh. Wait. He's a Morman. Oh well. I guess he can drink weak tea. Wait. Sorry. Can't have that either. Caffeine. I guess there's always caffeine free diet Pepsi.

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1. Re:Hey! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 19:12 · Score: 0, Funny
  
  Oh, spare us. After eight years of liberals calling Bush every name in the book and inventing a few new ones too, you have the gall to blame Republicans for condemning liberalism?
  Bush started two wars based on lies that cost trillions of dollars and killed hundreds of thousands of people. Obama hasn't done anything. Simple facts.
  FTFY.
Re:tax dollars are not involved by Rootkit · 2012-09-01 11:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Nice try Obama.
Free beer as in free beer by CuteSteveJobs · 2012-09-01 11:41 · Score: 4, Funny

> Your tax dollars hard at work yet again!"

If they are going to serve beer in the Whitehouse it's much cheaper to brew it themselves then to buy it. About 30 cents for a 750 mil bottle holding the equivalent of two cans. They also don't have to pay the extortionate government sales tax on alcohol. Hey hang on...

http://taxfoundation.org:81/article/state-sales-gasoline-cigarette-and-alcohol-tax-rates-state-2000-2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing
Re:Tax dollars? Not so much by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 12:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Now, the video and the blog are taxpayer funded, so there's that.
Ho ho ho, we've got him now.
Impeach!
Amazing by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-01 12:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Amazing what the government is able to accomplish now that they've got the budget balanced and a job for everyone that so desires.
Re:Some people like to brew beer as a hoby, so wha by Greyfox · 2012-09-01 12:21 · Score: 5, Funny

If I were President, I would collect dildos. I would collect them, and I would leave them in random places around the White House. But... That's why I'm where I'm at and Obama's where he's at. I'm sure collecting dildos never even occurred to him. I suppose I could ask him. He's in town tomorrow, fucking up my airspace. That's not code for anything, I literally can't fly until he leaves. So I have some time to kill.
Good beer, though, that's something we can all agree on. Well except Mitt Romney. Mormons aren't allowed to have beer. Or coffee. How you're supposed to go about having 5 wives without coffee is beyond me. I'm pretty sure you can't get through 4 years of a presidency without dropping the F bomb at least a couple times, as well, so good luck with that, Mormon-boy. Maybe collecting dildos and leaving them in random places around the White House would help.

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Re:Some people like to brew beer as a hoby, so wha by fm6 · 2012-09-01 12:25 · Score: 5, Funny

... if the president spent his money collecting stamps or collecting guitars I doubt you would you beat him up over it.
Are you kidding? This President has been condemned as "elitist" for his choice of condiments.
Re:Some people like to brew beer as a hoby, so wha by fm6 · 2012-09-01 12:33 · Score: 4, Funny

Somehow I don't think you're ever going to be President.
Re:MMMMMMMMM by fustakrakich · 2012-09-01 13:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah, let's see the White House hydroponic set up in the grow room. Nothing but the best kind for these guys

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how radical is that? by slick7 · 2012-09-01 13:43 · Score: 4, Funny

Alcohol drinking Muslims. Is that true radicalism or an oxymoron?

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Re:MMMMMMMMM by steeviant · 2012-09-01 15:24 · Score: 1, Funny

Yeah, let's see the White House hydroponic set up in the grow room. Nothing but the best kind for these guys
What would be the point? Everyone knows the president doesn't inhale.
Re:Just don't ask about Gitmo by steeviant · 2012-09-01 15:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Just don't ask about Gitmo
Are they brewing beer at Gitmo as well? (is waterboarding just "soaking the malts"?)
Mmmm beerboarding.
Re:MMMMMMMMM by AlamedaStone · 2012-09-01 17:35 · Score: 5, Funny

Yeah, let's see the White House hydroponic set up in the grow room. Nothing but the best kind for these guys
What would be the point? Everyone knows the president doesn't inhale.
No... you're thinking of the FIRST first black president.

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Re:MMMMMMMMM by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-09-01 19:46 · Score: 4, Funny

That's incredibly disappointing, my esteem for Obama has been decimated
Oh, come on, sweetie, there will be many more bachelor parties, your job as a stripper is safe.

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