I realize itâs early (at least on the Eastern coast of the US) to talk about cocktails, but I formulated a new recipe last night that Iâm eager to share. And since there is a highly consequential debate tonight, you may want to get liquored up early so youâll be prepared to slur your encouragement …
Beer Blogging
Open Thread: Just in Time for the Convention — White House Honey Ale Recipe
__ __ The Boston Globe seems to have scooped the story: “… Aficionados will note that it is a fairly standard concoction of light malt extract, amber crystal malt, honey, gypsum, yeast, and corn sugar.” Via NYMag, which added: “And, just in case any enterprising opposition researchers are on the hunt for government waste: all …
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Open Thread: Speaking of Readership Capture…
Via GQ‘s Death Race 2012 blog, “Your President Is A Homebrew Devotee“. Jason Noble at the Des Moines Register reports: In perhaps the most startling revelation so far in Obamaâs three-day bus tour across Iowa, it was revealed this morning that the White House brews its own beer, and that the presidential bus is stocked …
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Woop Woop Woop
As reported by commenter Gin & Tonic: Harpoonâs Rich & Danâs Rye IPA was so popular that theyâve returned it as a year-round brew, available in 6-packs of 12 oz bottles. Fantastic news. Harpoon IPA is pretty good, but that special edition rye was far and away the big hit from my visit to their …
More-On
James Poulos cranked a particularly stinky nugget into Tucker Carlsonâs cat box Thursday, a column entitled âWhat Are Women For?â that was at once so offensive, pretentious, incoherent, clueless and just plain dumb that it attracted hoots of derision from every corner of the internet. Balloon Juice commenter Clark Stooksbury summed it up pithily as …
White House Homebrew
Cleek mentioned that the beer that Dakota Meyer and President Obama shared yesterday was brewed at the White House. Here’s a lot more detail on how that beer came to be, from a blog completely devoted to the food and food policy at the White House. Consider this an open thread and a beer thread.
These are tough times for all of us
… so do yourself a favor, check out this brewing company website, but the first time, click that you aren’t 21. And if you’re a beer fan, maybe you could reward them financially for their awesomeness.