What Obama Knows About Beer

If only all politicians were so thoughtful. Like most brewing enthusiasts who came across them, I studied Obama's recipes for White House Honey Ale and White House Honey Porter closely, wondering what they would actually taste like. While an experienced brewer can make an educated guess at their qualities, the only way to really find out what they'd be like was to make them.

There is a daunting list of ingredients including several malts, several hops, some specialist yeasts and an assortment of other esoteric ingredients.

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They are all available in the UK with a bit of searching, or in my case, a bit of help. I called my friend Coreen from Dorset Homebrew , told her what I was up to and she put all the ingredients together for me.

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The intractable exception was White House honey which, despite my extensive connections in high places, proved impossible to acquire. I settled for local Dorset honey, consoling myself with the thought all the food miles I would save. The only other ingredient that gave me pause was corn sugar , but that just turned out to be another name for dextrose.

I kept as closely to the recipe as I could except that I made half batches of each beer, a practical step as it removes the need for a saucepan the size of a dustbin. Last week, the president said he would like to turn tensions over Gates' arrest, which occurred after police responded to a call about a possible burglary at the scholar's home, into a "teachable moment" on race. Since then, the president and his aides have tried to tamp down expectations about the meeting, which took place on White House grounds at 6 p.

Obama cast the meeting as an opportunity for the men to listen to each other.

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Earlier Thursday, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "I don't think the president has outsized expectations that one cold beer at one table here is going to change massively the course of human history. He said Obama hopes instead to inspire discussions "in communities large and small all over the country in order to make progress through better understanding. Gates' arrest this month, after he had to force his way into his house because the door was jammed, prompted a national discussion on cable TV networks, in the White House and elsewhere about racial profiling.

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At a news conference July 22, Obama inflamed the discussion when he said the Cambridge police "acted stupidly" when they arrested Gates. Two days later, Obama told reporters he wished he had "calibrated" his words differently and did not mean to malign the police. Obama said he believed Gates and Crowley had "overreacted" to events.

Obama said he hoped the arrest and ensuing discussions could be a "teachable moment" for the country, and he announced that Gates and Crowley would join him for a beer.

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Gibbs said "there will be a selection of beers," and it will "include at least those three. Gibbs said the event was not about having the men apologize. The Coors family has been a long-time supporter of the Republican party. But both of those are foreign beers. The White House only stocks American beers, under a tradition dating to the Johnson administration.

Budweiser isn't a slam dunk either. Some could argue that the beer is no longer an American beer after being bought out by Belgian-Brazilian beer giant InBev, maker of Hoegaarden, Leffe and Stella Artois. Devin Dinneen, general manager of Tommy Doyle's Irish Pub in Cambridge's Kendall Square, the bar that Crowley was in Friday when the president called, inviting him to the White House for a beer, offered some perspective. Dinneen said Sam Adams Summer Ale "is a good seller in the warm weather" but that pub also sells a fair amount of Guinness, being an Irish bar.

He also suggested Magners Irish Cider. He was there on Friday when Crowley and some other police officers were eating lunch and Obama called.

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But Dinneen couldn't say any particular beer that Crowley likes to drink. But Dinneen said the sergeant was drinking "orange juice, I think. So what beer would the manager of Crowley's bar choose if he got to go to the White House? Or just "maybe a cold pint of Guinness. Matt Simpson, who goes by the nickname The Beer Sommelier, provides craft beer consulting for individuals and businesses and writes the "Ask Beer" column for Beer Magazine, said his first choice would probably a Hennepin Farmhouse Saison from the Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, N.

Simpson said Sam Adams -- with its very wide range of beers for all tastes -- or Goose Island would both be great choices. They're crisp and refreshing and thirst-quenching.

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But that's really about it. There's no depth of flavor, no big aroma, no character. But perhaps that lack of pizzazz is just what Obama needs to get through what could be a very awkward meeting. Blue Moon Might Not Make White House Cut Blue Moon, however, could be a problematic pick for the Democratic president, because while it is marketed as a small craft beer, it was actually created by Coors and today owned by MillerCoors. But he urged Obama to stay away from the larger, mass-produced beers. What Beer Will Obama Pick?

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