Ale To the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe 340
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!"
Hey! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:tax dollars are not involved (Score:5, Funny)
Free beer as in free beer (Score:5, Funny)
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 [taxfoundation.org]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrewing [wikipedia.org]
Re:Tax dollars? Not so much (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 (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 (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Some people like to brew beer as a hoby, so wha (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 [mediamatters.org].
Re:Some people like to brew beer as a hoby, so wha (Score:5, Funny)
Somehow I don't think you're ever going to be President.
Re:MMMMMMMMM (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
how radical is that? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:MMMMMMMMM (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 (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 (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.
Re:Hey! (Score:0, Funny)
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:MMMMMMMMM (Score:5, 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.