What would you serve?

[Revvy]

Like it or not, the President's beer choice is important. It doesn't really matter what his personal preference is. I imagine he didn't even make the selection himself. Bud Light is not only the most popular beer in America, it's popular across all ethnicities and socioeconomic statuses.

I do agree though with the earlier poster who suggested Sam Adams. It's a popular enough beer that everyone would recognize it and it comes from an American-owned brewery. If Yeungling or Anchor Steam were as widely available, I think they would also make great options.

But the joke is that Bud is no longer American owned....It's been a holding by inbev for the last year or so.

 

[bob1852]

Bud Light is not only the most popular beer in America,

actually, it's the world's top selling beer (well, unless you count that Chinese family of Snow beers)

 

[hal2814]

But the joke is that Bud is no longer American owned....It's been a holding by inbev for the last year or so.

"American owned" doesn't mean what it used to. These days, it means something that was maybe American at some point and spends a lot of time advertising Americans doing American activities without using words that sound foreign in any way (unless to malign those foreigners). Bud is an American beer. Pay no attention to the hoity-toity Dutch that own it. Just like my mom's Ford built in Mexico is an American car. Much better than those evil Japanese at Toyta that employ half my wife's family up in Indiana.

 

[BA_from_GA]

"American owned" doesn't mean what it used to. These days, it means something that was maybe American at some point and spends a lot of time advertising Americans doing American activities without using words that sound foreign in any way (unless to malign those foreigners). Bud is an American beer. Pay no attention to the hoity-toity Dutch that own it. Just like my mom's Ford built in Mexico is an American car. Much better than those evil Japanese at Toyta that employ half my wife's family up in Indiana.

yup... we get compressors where i work that have big stickers that say this compressor was assembled completely in the USA

so i guess you can look at a glance and feel like you're stimulating the amreican economy. But in reality, all we did was weld together chinese crap.

and just to not go off topic.... i was disgusted by the beer list when i heard it.

 

[Whut]

Quick, will someone get those guys some great home brewed beer.

 

[Evan!]

I'd send both of these assbags packin, and instead invite over some REAL victims of the "militarization of mayberry". Hell, even if he just invited over the folks who had their dogs shot and killed when local SWAT jerkoffs hit the wrong house, he could fill the WH ballroom. But no...some black dude was wrongly arrested and subsequently released with no charges, and it's a national issue. Suck it. Everyone, suck it. The fact that this nonsense is getting national headlines, while this is not, should make everyone in this country hang their heads in collective shame.

 

[HoppyDaze]

brass monkey

 

[Shooter]

brass monkey

That funky monkey?

 

[Revvy]

Oh my god...I TOLD you, someone would say something about the Non American Beers being served right now.

Blue Moon Beer the Right Choice for the White House? – While we are a 100% politics-free publication, we’ve got a lot of pride in our president and our beer. To help ease the racially-charged tensions between Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sgt. James Crowley, President Obama invited the two for a beer at the White House. Obama served his guests the options of Blue Moon White Ale, Budweiser and Red Stripe. What is peculiar about these choices? None of them are produced by wholly U.S.-owned breweries. Blue Moon is produced by Coors, under shared ownership of SABMiller in the UK. Budweiser is produced by Anheuser-Busch InBev, a company based in Belgium after its recent purchase. Red Stripe is produced by Desnoes & Geddes, based in Kingston, Jamaica.

So what would be the best choice of brews to share with the President’s guests? We submit Samuel Adams, brewed by Boston Beer Company, the largest 100% American-owned brewery in the United States. While the quality of Sam Adams beer is respected by beer lovers (and brewers) throughout the world, the brand carries a lot of symbolism in the American Spirit. What started out as a true underdog has become the largest in the United States, additionally igniting a new wave of microbrews and craft breweries in the U.S. Sam Adams led a revolution in the beer world, taking it to the big dogs and coming out the winner. To us, that sounds like a truly American story. Take this as a message to the White House chef– drink American!

LOL!!I so know human nature.....

Though isn't technically Lienenkugels now the oldest AMERICAN owned brewery in this country?

 

[GreenwoodRover]

Linenkugels is (or was) a subsidiary of Miller....

Who owns Yuengling?

 

[Revvy]

Linenkugels is (or was) a subsidiary of Miller....

Who owns Yuengling?

*slaps forehead*

That's what I meant...the Yuengling family is now the oldest 100% USA owned and operated brewery in the country...I always get the 2 confused....but yeah they should be drinking Yuenling....but I betcha they can't get it in DC...Hell I can't get in in Michigan.

Thanks for clearing that up 'Rover!

 

[ODP]

ehhhhh the whole "beer summit" and stories just like it make me want to live in the mountains in Montana and have no contact to the outside world







aside from the internet so I can chat with you fine folks and order ingredients.

 

[Tonedef131]

For what it is worth, Stone produces Arrogant Bastard, not Rogue.

I can't believe it took three pages for someone to catch that...you're all supposed to be beer enthusiasts, there is no excuse for this.

Fail

 

[ODP]

Wasn't it a joke like GreenwoodRover mentioned?

Perfect!

Rogue = The Police Officer
Arrogant = The Professor
Bastard = The President (In the technical sense as he was raised without a his father).

 

[jacksonbrown]

Yuenling....but I betcha they can't get it in DC...

Sure they can. I'm from Maryland originally and that's where I was first introduced to it.

 

[Revvy]

The bigger qurestion.....it appears the VP, hearing that there was going to be free beer decided to sneak into the kegger as well....So, more importantly, what did Biden drink?

And did try to get a beer pong game going?



('Cause we all know, the Vice President is a "Dude's Dude," I mean he speaks his mind, makes off color jokes....He's a no bs kinda guy. Heck, he probably got Harvard and the cop to arm wrestle or something. Then took them out to the strip club.)

Edit Oh I just looked it up....he had a N/A Beer.....

Biden had non-alcoholic Buckler

From wikipedia

Buckler

Buckler is a low alcohol (0.5% abv) pale lager. It was launched in the summer of 1988, and is distributed worldwide. There was a recall in 2004 due to a fault in the pasteurising process.[4] Buckler is no longer available in the Netherlands (Heinekens' home market) after the brand's image declined following Dutch cabaret performer Youp van 't Hek mocking the brand (and its consumers) in a show in 1989.[5]

Buckler was the choice of beverage by US Vice President Joe Biden for the "White House Rose Garden beer-drinking session" or "Beer Summit" with Henry Louis Gates, Joe Crowley and President Obama. The event was the result of the controversial arrest of Henry Louis Gates, which gained national attention regarding law enforcement racial profiling.[6]

Well I bet the prez MADE my man Biden drink the wussy henieken non alcoholic....FOR the above reasons I mentioned. I'm sure pics of Joe doing a keg stand or a beer bong, would overshadow this important step in race relations Obama's always trying to keep joe down...

 

[captianoats]

Silly Biden. He rides the train, he could have had as many beers as he wanted and not worried about driving home.


Anyways, I would have served my homebrew...... with this label