Obama is a homebrewer

[nittanybevo]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/16/earlyshow/main20107292.shtml

another link of the white house and their homebrewing. Also, many may remember the Obama/Gates/Crowley meeting from 2009 when Obama had a Bud Light.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Politics/story?id=8204574

Politics aside, it looks like at least his taste for beer has improved.

 

[paulster2626]

Should send them the Edwort Apfelwein recipe. That'll really get the party started.

 

[unionrdr]

At least they had the ayinger marzen & paulaner hefewietzen. But havin a beer with the pres is way cool. I have a couple things to discuss with him. A couple beers would help. Maybe show him how to make IPA's or my whiskely. At least he's cool enough to buy & use some home brewing equipment. At 90-100 bottles,it has to be a 10G batch. Cause I get 66-67 bottles out of 6G. Now if he'll just get after all the states to make home brewing legal...

 

[bob1852]

Did we just jump in a time machine and go back to the Super Bowl when this was first reported?

 

[unionrdr]

Yes Mr Peabody,I believe so,now that you mention it.

 

[thegerm]

it's news again because the medal of honor recipient asked to have a beer with the president. also, because the white house homebrewing isn't a fact that probably sticks in the collective memory as much as it does ours.

 

[unionrdr]

At least the pres likes making good beer. Or at least buying the equipment to have his chefs make it for him.

 

[TopherM]

You think they are making extract kits with newbie esters?? LOL....

 

[unionrdr]

That's what crossed my mind the 1st time it was on the news. lol

 

[Pascal]

Very cool, I hadn't heard this before!


Homebrewing is illegal in some of the states? Sorry, ignorant Canadian here. Is there still "dry states" and is that the problem or are there states that you can buy beer but not homebrew? Either way, that is a bummer!
P.

 

[ACbrewer]

I noticed in the article - didn't watch video - that they imply the WH Chefs, not the staff or elected officals brew. Yes they support it, just like SWMBO supports my brewing (to keep me out of trouble I think).

As for Pascal's OT question - I think Alabama is the only state that bans homebrewing. Other states have 'dry areas' where the purchase of alcohol is prohibited, but the homebrewer can makes soem for his own uses. Texas comes to mind as having wet and dry counties

 

[LandoLincoln]

You think they are making extract kits with newbie esters?? LOL....

Hmm. I'm thinking the chefs at the White House probably went all grain. They're probably pretty good at making anything that humans can eat.

Or maybe they sent a request for quick lessons to Charlie Papazian or John Palmer.

The real question is what kind of equipment the Obamas bought for this. I bet they sprang for a Sabco Brew Magic.

 

[stratslinger]

Very cool, I hadn't heard this before!


Homebrewing is illegal in some of the states? Sorry, ignorant Canadian here. Is there still "dry states" and is that the problem or are there states that you can buy beer but not homebrew? Either way, that is a bummer!
P.

Yeah, there's a small handful of states where, while buying beer is legal, making it is not. In at least one of those cases, even buying beer beyond a certain ABV is illegal...

Glad to not be in one of those states! CT may tax the crap out of us, but at least they leave us homebrewers well enough alone!

 

[LVBen]

Homebrewing is illegal in some of the states?

Yep. There are threads around here that discuss it. I even saw an article that someone posted about someone in Alaska being arrested because he had large quantities of yeast.

 

[LandoLincoln]

Yep. There are threads around here that discuss it. I even saw an article that someone posted about someone in Alaska being arrested because he had large quantities of yeast.

That doesn't make any sense. HR 1337 of 1978, which stipulated allowing any adult in the United States to "produce wine and beer for personal and family use and not for sale without incurring the wine or beer excise taxes or any penalties for quantities per calendar year of: (1) 200 gallons if there are two or more adults in the household and (2) 100 gallons if there is only one adult in the household" was signed into law on October 14, 1978.

Maybe if you lived in a dry county, this would be different. But a whole state disallowing it?

I'd definitely march on my state capitol and demand the law to be changed.

 

[Clanchief]

Very cool, I hadn't heard this before!


Homebrewing is illegal in some of the states? Sorry, ignorant Canadian here. Is there still "dry states" and is that the problem or are there states that you can buy beer but not homebrew? Either way, that is a bummer!
P.

There are some states where homebrewing is still illegal. And while there are no more dry states, there are still dry town and dry counties. It's interesting where you find them too. You can find a whole list here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dry_communities_by_U.S._state

And there are still some really neolithic laws restricting sales in many, many states. A lot of places you can't buy anything on Sunday outside of a bar. Some states you can only get 3.2% ABV beer or below in a grocery store, and anything else has to be in a specialty liquor store. As though high alcohol beers and hard liquors will somehow contaminate food. Bah.

 

[Revvy]

Did we just jump in a time machine and go back to the Super Bowl when this was first reported?

The soldier that had a beer with the prez yesterday had some of the homebrew, therefore it's in the news again, and since most folks don't bother to look around to see if something beer newsy could have already possibly been posted today (or any day) then they neglect to see things like this thread from 2 hours ago Home Brewing at the White House

Which also references the superbowl thread.

Since it's beer news it's going covered on all the other beer sites we read, and therefore it's going to, like every other beer thing going to be posted multiple times the next few days.

I predict 6 MORE threads before Monday.

 

[unionrdr]

Your not allowed to have or brew alcohol on the reservations up there either. Drinking is a big problem on the res. The whit man took their land,took their gold,took their lives. Then shoved them on the res till something valuable was found then off they go. And now they can't even drown their sorrows? They already had their pride taken away. It's like taking away their dignity.
And the reasons given by some dumb politicians for not allowing home brewing is laughable on sites like this where we know better. Yet they allow all those stills...

 

[bob1852]

The soldier that had a beer with the prez yesterday had some of the homebrew, therefore it's in the news again, and since most folks don't bother to look around to see if something beer newsy could have already possibly been posted today (or any day) then they neglect to see things like this thread from 2 hours ago Home Brewing at the White House

Which also references the superbowl thread.

Since it's beer news it's going covered on all the other beer sites we read, and therefore it's going to, like every other beer thing going to be posted multiple times the next few days.

I predict 6 MORE threads before Monday.

Is there a Congressional Medal of Honor website(s)? I'd rather read more about the Marine.....

 

[Clanchief]

The soldier that had a beer with the prez yesterday had some of the homebrew, therefore it's in the news again, and since most folks don't bother to look around to see if something beer newsy could have already possibly been posted today (or any day) then they neglect to see things like this thread from 2 hours ago Home Brewing at the White House

Which also references the superbowl thread.

Since it's beer news it's going covered on all the other beer sites we read, and therefore it's going to, like every other beer thing going to be posted multiple times the next few days.

I predict 6 MORE threads before Monday.

Emphasis added. I would like to make a small correction to you here Revvy. It was a Marine, not a soldier. I'm a former Marine myself, and there is a distinction. Not saying anything bad about our compatriots in the Army with that, just noting the distinction for those who might not know.

 

[Clanchief]

Is there a Congressional Medal of Honor website(s)? I'd rather read more about the Marine.....

Here's a nice article in the NYT about the Sgt.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/us/dakota-meyer-marine-is-awarded-medal-of-honor.html?_r=1

 

[LVBen]

The article about the dry counties in Alaska that have banned yeast and sugar:
http://www.adn.com/2011/07/18/1973815/home-brew-ingredients-catch-the.html

 

[rjsnau]

The article about the dry counties in Alaska that have banned yeast and sugar:
http://www.adn.com/2011/07/18/1973815/home-brew-ingredients-catch-the.html

This sounds more like the old Soviet Union then the US. I am surprised they can take it this far. Looks like the need to learn about yeast harvesting and starters up in AK.

"A grocery store manager in Anchorage might call alcohol investigators if someone buys a lot of yeast and the manager suspects it's being sent to a village, Thompson said. As in many bootlegging arrests, investigators sometimes find the yeast packed in someone's luggage or their mail bound for the Bush, he said."

 

[Pascal]

"Controlling the ingredients for home-brew in villages is similar to the effort to control the sale of ingredients used to cook methamphetemine, Thompson said."

Holy s..t!!!!

 

[thegerm]

that whole business in alaska is laughable. i remember them saying something along the lines of, "there's only one reason you need 4 pounds of yeast, and that's bootlegging."

hilarious and stupid, coz if you've ever made bread at home, it takes about as much dried bread yeast to make a couple of loaves as it takes to ferment 5 gallons of beer. they're basically treating their whole state as if it were one giant prison, and the citizens were all guilty of conspiring to make industrial scale prison hooch.

and then there's alabama... the brewing network played some of the arguments against legalizing homebrewing recently made in the alabama state legislature/village idiot convention, and that was comedy GOLD.

 

[scarlessmeanie]

Barack Obeerma.

 

[JRems]

Someone asked about the prezidents equiptment. It is all blichmann

 

[ozzy1038]

At least there is one thing I can like him for.

 

[Revvy]

Emphasis added. I would like to make a small correction to you here Revvy. It was a Marine, not a soldier. I'm a former Marine myself, and there is a distinction. Not saying anything bad about our compatriots in the Army with that, just noting the distinction for those who might not know.

Never heard that before, I thought soldier was the umbrella term for all millitary combat troops no matter what the branch?

Or is the distinction more in the minds of the Marines?

 

[Evets]

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