Washington – Beer lovers, the secret is out.
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The White House has made public the recipe for two homemade beers that have become an object of fascination for beer drinkers everywhere.
White House Honey Brown Ale, believed to be the first beer brewed on the White House grounds, includes light malt extract, amber crystal malt, honey, gypsum, yeast and corn sugar.
The recipe was released Saturday while President Barack Obama was campaigning in Iowa.
Obama has been talking about the White House brew for weeks, but he and other officials had refused to disclose details of how it’s made, despite an online petition and repeated questions from reporters. Obama even took a question on the beer recipe during a chat with the website Reddit.
Obama and his team frequently talk about the president’s fondness for beer, and Obama has been photographed many times downing a beer, including an appearance at the Iowa State Fair last month.
Being identified as a beer drinker is an easy way for Obama to connect with voters and serves as a not-so-subtle reminder that his Republican rival Mitt Romney, a Mormon, doesn’t drink.
Obama even held a “beer summit” after a white police sergeant arrested black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates as he tried to get into his own home.
White House press secretary Jay Carney announced the beer recipe on Twitter, linking to a blog post entitled “Ale to the Chief” that included a video on the brewing process. The White House was careful to say the president paid for the materials used in the beer-making himself.
“With public excitement about White House beer fermenting such a buzz, we decided we better hop right to it” and release the recipe, wrote White House chef Sam Kass, who brews the beer in the White House kitchen.
The White House included recipes for both the honey ale and a honey porter, both of which are brewed at the White House.
In the video, Kass is seen drinking the honey ale.
“That is one incredible beer if I do say so myself,” Kass says, smiling. “America, I wish everybody could taste this but we don’t quite brew enough.”
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Online:
White House beer recipe: http://tinyurl.com/97tucgz
Fancy getting a beer recipe from buckingham palace ? Wonder what’s brewing @the white house
Does the White House have the proper permits for its brewery?
wow what a clown.
It goes without saying, no doubt, that any putative Republican tenant of the White House would *never* do such a thing. Root beer perhaps or, if he might be feeling daring, some coffee-flavored ice cream.
Why do Americans get so caught up on such minor things when the entire world is looking on and laughing at you all?
Who’s supervision is it under?
Great. Now obama has at least a wAy to keep busy after he gets evicted from the white house
Perfect back up career… Take your moonshine and hit the road
Gypsum? Sounds great to me. He has wrapped the entire US economy in confining gypsum, so why not add some to his beer?
(I’m a former home winemaker, so I do know how and why there is gypsum used in this recipe.)
Wow! Sooo presidential…
Wow, a golfer and a beer maker! When is he going to get around to being the President?
Corn sugar is high fructose corn syrup. Disgusting and bad for you.