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Barack Obama was the first president to host a White House You know, obviously, there could be some beer that we don't know about, but. My daily RSS feeds that bring me the latest in beer news have recently It's my belief that as a community organizer, Obama knows the power.
Let me buy a beer. And I think it holds a really sacred part of our culture.
It's also just naturally what you do if you're a regular guy and you're a good guy, and that's really what the president is. He's just a decent guy.
You know, he's quite smart, but he's not fancy. I think it was quite exemplary of who he was and how he conducted himself.
None of us did. We had no idea what we were doing. But you just give it a shot. So yeah, no, it turned out great. The first beer we did was honey brown ale, and we used the honey from the White House garden for all of our beers. And so we ended up doing a honey brown, honey blonde in the summer, and then we called it a honey porter, but it really wasn't a porter. Like, that beer will sell anywhere.
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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. I also added some carragheen finings at the same time as the second lot of hops to help clarify the beer — it was not in the recipe but I thought it would do no harm.
As with all beers the sugar from which the alcohol is made comes from malted barley or other grain. The White House recipes save time and hard work by using a malt extract but a variety of malted grains are also employed to allow the development of more complex flavours than from an extract alone — particularly in the case of the porter, which uses roasted grains. Well, the results are in and the news is good, mostly. The Honey Ale is a pleasant light drink if not exactly a revelation for the palate; it has also turned out mysteriously cloudy and I would be interested to hear if anyone has any idea what I might have done wrong.
I have not the slightest doubt that any failings in this brew are entirely my own doing, not President Obama's.
The Honey Porter however is quite splendid. I don't much like dark beers, having been treated with rather than to a daily dose of powerful stout as a child.
As Irish Central reports:. The president accepted the offer and they each drank a bottle of the ale on the patio outside the Oval Office. Threads collapsed expanded unthreaded. He was there on Friday when Crowley and some other police officers were eating lunch and Obama called. Learning to Speak Latino. China is driving use of armed drones in Middle East.
Obama's brew has rather changed my mind. It is not overpoweringly bitter, not too treacly and not too toasty.
The grains, hops and Nottingham yeast have combined to produce something which is rich and dark, clear, complex and fragrant. As the original White House press release said — "Ale to the Chief!
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