August 21st, 2012
06:42 PM ET
Brewers seek White House’s secret beer recipe (CNN) – President Obama makes a point of being seen enjoying a beer now and again. (See here, here, here, and here). This may be no surprise, given that the winner of recent presidential elections has usually been the same person that voters have identified in polls as someone with whom they’d prefer to drink a beer. But the president even went a step further last week during his trip to Iowa, revealing to a voter that his campaign bus was stocked with beer that is brewed in the White House. Obama officials have long been tight-lipped about the home-made beer that is reportedly made with honey extracted from the White House gardens, but now home-brewing enthusiasts are hoping to force their hand. In a petition on the White House website, individuals identifying themselves as “homebrewers across America” are calling on the Obama administration to fork over the special suds recipe. “In keeping with the brewing traditions of the founding fathers, homebrewers across America call on the Obama Administration to release the recipe for the White House home brew so that it may be enjoyed by all,” the petition reads. While the White House website allows for anybody to make a petition on any matter, the administration will not formally respond unless the petition garners at least 25,000 signatures within one month. As of last count, the petition had 880 signatures. Meanwhile, as reported by Government Executive, at least one user on the home-brewing forum of the website Reddit is going a more bureaucratic route – filing a Freedom of Information Request with the administration. In the request, the individual writes that disclosure of the recipe will “likely to contribute significantly to public understanding of the operations or activities of the government.” While it’s unlikely the recipe will be forked over anytime soon, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney did divulge a few details last week. “The President said there are two types - there’s a light and a dark. I think I’ve only tried the light, and it’s quite refreshing,” Carney told reporters. |
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Drink up buddy! We can deal with our problems some other day!
and you my friend, are an idiot!
Just wondering what happened to the many DJ's Music Postings!
Somebody an CNN does not appreciate good Beer Drinking Music,,,
or is it just another attempt to conrol free music/speech?
Just sayin'
@1freeHELMET BOY
I see you got bored with trying to pry open the donation boxes for the Ronald McDonald House at yer local hang-outs.
Oh, and that Hank guy who the NFL dumped on his butt before kicking him over the goal post of oblivion, is about the dumbest guitar picker out there. So, it figures you, HELMET BOY would like someone like that with the same IQ as you. You probably handle Rattlesnakes at your church on Sundays to prove you have God-given abilities to be (cough) charming while daring the critters with the words "Bite Me".
IYO, why is Hank Williams dumb? Because he has an opinion? What does that make you?
You probably don't have any friends ... but, YOU'RE an idiot !!!
Hank's daddy called him BOCEPHUS after Grand Ol' Opry comedian Rod Brasfiels VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY. Even Jr.'s son said that most musicians INCLUDING HIS DAD are "NOT WORTHY" of political discussion. You like to point at Obama and snicker that he did drugs BUT turn around and rah-rah for one of the biggest boozer-druggies in the music industry. Anyone who donated to the election of Michele Bachmann and wrote love songs to Sarah Palin is a failin' in the brains department, it's obvious.
@Howard Latina/diana conjoined after birth. At least I don't pretend to have friends – I just do.
BOCEPHUS is named after a Grand Ol' Opry VENTRILOQUIST DUMMY by his daddy. It was already obvious at a young age.
It is a first!
I agree with what Cynthia L. wrote!
It was a quote though...
"Even Jr.'s son said that most musicians INCLUDING HIS DAD are "NOT WORTHY" of political discussion."
Can we get rid of all the
cool big Liberal Musicians, and
cool big Hollywood Actors,,,
you know,
the cool ones that love Tyranny and Big Gubment Control over
Us little guys and We the People?
YES, the same ones that are in the 1%'ers Group?
Yes, the same ones that are in the Oligarchial Group
that will
squash YOUR FREEDOMS and
be ONE-with-the GUBMENT,
CRONY Capitalists?
For examples,,,
Wanna sell Lemonade on your street?
Big ARBY's (they are part of the ones that are against the EIB Network guy)
want's your child's wages
and will use the Gubment to stop your chil'ren
from
MAKING 25 CENTS,,, err 50 Cents (the printing of Fiat Money makes Gas and Lemonade more expensive)!
Wanna buy Chick-fil-A?
Big City Gubment and the Big Arby's cannot compete with Chick-fill-A,
so they ask BIG CITY GUBMENT to exclude the competition!
Wanna sell Health Insurance across State Lines?
BIG AARP and
BIG PROGRESSIVE INSURANCE and
BIG lefty American Medical Association (etc.)
Will contribute to the BIG GUBMENT
and WIPE OUT
ALL COMPETITION for
CHEAPER
INSURANCE and Healthcare
for the Poor Folks!
Go Figure!
For you!
examples,,,
Wanna sell Lemonade on your street?
Big AR, Ar AR- BY's (they are part of the ones that are against the Ee II B's Nets working guy)
want's your child's wages
and will use the Gubment to stop your chil'ren
from
MAKING 25 CENTS,,,
err 50 Cents (the printing of Fiat' Money makes Gas and Lemonade more expensive)!
Wanna buy some Chicken fillAid?
Big City Gubment and the Big Ar Ar Ar by's cannot compete with Chicken fillAid Poor helpers,
so they ask BIG CITY GUBMENT to exclude the competition!
Wanna sell Health Insurance across State Lines?
Go Figure!
Meanwhile.., out here in reality.
Obama will become the first president in history to not have signed a budget during his entire term.
Obama continues to increase the National Debt at an average of $3.89 billion per day.
Unemployment is going up, fuel costs are rising, healthcare costs are soaring and oh yeah.., Obama drank a beer.
My BOLONEY HAS A FIRST NAME – it's O-S-C-A-R
My BOLONEY HAS A SECOND NAME – it's M-A-Y-E-R
Wonder how many times Paul Ryan had to sing that song while driving his WEINERMOBILE?! Beep- Beep!
That pretty much covers it, have the dems go see America 2016, we will all have beer time if Oblameo gets re-elected
because there will be NO JOBS, At least Romney has a head for business, note dope & booze
It is a first!
I agree with what Cynthia L. wrote!
It was a quote though...
"Even Jr.'s son said that most musicians INCLUDING HIS DAD are "NOT WORTHY" of political discussion."
Can we get rid of all the
cool big Liberal Musicians, and
cool big Hollywood Actors,,,
you know,
the cool ones that love Tyranny and Big Gubment Control over
Us little guys and We the People?
YES, the same ones that are in the 1%'ers Group?
Yes, the same ones that are in the Oligarchial Group
that will
squash YOUR FREEDOMS and
be ONE-with-the GUBMENT,
CRONY Capitalists?
WHAT???
CNN does not like good R&B / Rap from a Black Man???
What does CNN have against Black Singers???
For examples,,,
Wanna sell Lemonade on your street?
Big ARBY's (they are part of the ones that are against the EIB Network guy)
want's your child's wages
and will use the Gubment to stop your chil'ren
from
MAKING 25 CENTS,,, err 50 Cents (the printing of Fiat Money makes Gas and Lemonade more expensive)!
Wanna buy Chick-fil-A?
Big City Gubment and the Big Arby's cannot compete with Chick-fill-A,
so they ask BIG CITY GUBMENT to exclude the competition!
Wanna sell Health Insurance across State Lines?
BIG A A R P and
BIG PROGRES'SIVE INSURANCE and
BIG lefty American Medical Association (etc.)
Will contribute to the BIG GUBMENT
and WIPE OUT
ALL COMPETITION for
CHEAPER
INSURANCE and Healthcare
for the Poor Folks!
Go Figure!
Having some fried dog with my beer!
For examples,,,
Wanna sell Lemonade on your street?
Big ARBY's (they are part of the ones that are against the E I B Network guy)
want's your child's wages
and will use the Gubment to stop your chil'ren
from
MAKING 25 CENTS,,, err 50 Cents (the printing of Fiat' Money makes Gas and Lemonade more expensive)!
Wanna buy Chicke fillAid?
Big City Gubment and the Big Arby's cannot compete with Chicken fillAid,
so they ask BIG CITY GUBMENT to exclude the competition!
Wanna sell Health Insurance across State Lines?
BIG A A R P and
BIG PROGRES'SIVE INSURANCE and
BIG lefty American Medical Association (etc.)
Will contribute to the BIG GUBMENT
and WIPE OUT
ALL COMPETITION for
CHEAPER
INSURANCE and Healthcare
for the Poor Folks!
Go Figure!
beer in one hand a dagger in the other... and, give yer money honkey!
that really is funny !!!!!
I Love Obama
Hi! I'm Obama! You know. The self proclaimed drug abuser and your POTUS. I'd like to take this opportunity to clear my tarnished name by brewing beer! Yes, nothing says respectful and decent individual able to run a country like brewing beer. I figure if I can get congress hooked on my home brew I can get away with, well,.. Just about anything. So the next time you want to spout off about how bad of a President I've turned out to be, just pop open one of my new 'Obama Mama's' It's refreshing and will make it easier to shut you all up come election time. ..... Just remember! Nothing says re election like me siiting on my rump and brewing perfection!!!!!
"Abusing drugs" – he admitted to smoking pot when he was a kid, just like 65% of America has. Would you rather him lie about it? BUSH DID COCAINE. Coke is a drug, pot will be legalized withing the next decade, cocaine never will. Pot is already legal in several states and most of the developed world. What is better, a President who stays at the white house and working, drinking a beer once in a while (in moderation, alcohol has been proven to calm nerves which leads to rational thinking) or a President that never wanted to come in to work and stayed at his farm in Texas or at Martha's Vineyard 68% of his time in office? Also, if Obama is so bad, how bad is your candidate? He's losing to him in all the national polls. If Obama was SO bad, he would handily defeat him, incumbent or not (just look at how badly Clinton beat up on Bush 1 in 1992 because people hated Bush so much).
Also, it's mind-boggling how many people on here think that Obama is himself brewing the beer. As if he is out there in a beekeeper's suit, wrangling all the bees, harvesting the honey and crops and bringing it inside and brewing it for hours. Nice try though on an awful attempt at making it look like he is "wasting his time" with an asinine assumption that really only serves to make your argument look desperate.
I'm pretty sure he doesn't brew the beer himself.
He personally paid for the equipment for the brewing, the Chefs are the brewers. The honey is collected from the hives in the White House Gardens. Beer brewing is fun, my brother used to do it, But, he wasn't very good at doing anything creative with recipes so, it was not that tasty and he gave up. haha.
I think It's disgusting people are hatin' on beer. HAVE YOU NO MORAL FIBER?! In other news, legalize pot plzkthnx
The light is the same recipe as Thunderbird, and the dark is the same recipe as Night Train Express.
If President Obama can turn barley and hops into wine, then maybe he really is the Messiah.
Unfortunately, obama stooges, with weak minds, like you, actually believe this empty suit is the messiah ... that's why America is in such trouble !!!
Pure ignorance is killing some of you. Research.
And now, one from the Vault!
A good slow shuffle for the CNN Censors!
this guy must be cool if he drinks beer. CNN is so great for bringing us this important info. 880 signatures is alot.
These are Obama supporters? Uh...Ok.
When I look for a voice of reason to provide guidance, I usually don't pick Ray Stevens.
Maybe if you developed your own voice of reason, you wouldn't have to depend on someone else to do your thinking for you ... like al the other obama stooges do.
and just maybe your are totally full of crap!
I thought you would like this one better!
Just for you!
Speaking of borders. Don't forget that Romney is the only one to sucsessfully close our borders.
Oh, no wait...it wasn't our bodres he closed. It was Border's book stores.
I am waiting for CNN to actually report on all the SONGS ripping Obama and his policies!
That would be a true Societal Report!
CNN would have to shut their servers down as the report would bring out all the Lefties to make more stupid comments rallying behind Obummer!
Go figure!
Problem is that CNN would rather keep the election safe for Obummer's re-election,
and such a report will have to come from the UK or Canada!
Wow!!! What an exiting piece of news. HE does drugs. ((By HIS own admittance.) Now, why NOT alcohol, too?!
Do the blunders ever cease with this guy? In front of a large crowd this week, obama declares he enjoys beer pork chops and fried twinkies. To his wife! And all this while his wife advocates healthy eating across the country! Now tell me they really care what we eat. What a farce. Yea, go guzzle beer and golf more than any other president. And some people think this guy actually cares about us? No he cares about himself.
I know they don't have real schools down in Missouri, but perhaps you should read about Taft on the back of a Wheaties Box.
Seriously? Eating healthy doesn't mean you can never have unhealthy food. Having a fried twinkie, a piece of cake, or a bowl of ice cream once in a while is fine. Having a beer or two on occasion is fine.
I enjoy the cool refreshing taste of Duff.
I looked through all the news that Obama and Biden has been creating this week (race baiting...Obama supported, Biden calling Republicans names (Squeal'n pigs), Obama's surrogates lies about Romney and Ryan (Medicare is going away..not) and the first news article I find related to Obama is "Brewer's are after the White House beer recipe"!
You have got to be kidding me!
It is time to get serious CNN, report the news! And just the facts......I can assess the impact and make up my own mind.
No bias, no filtering, no campaigning......Just the facts.....
You are hurting the nation by doing otherwise...which makes you part of the problem....not part of the solution....
Drink beer, Obama haters!
If Bush had said he had a White House brew, the comments would be reversed with the libs bashing him and the cons saying what a down-home fun guy he was. The fact that he has an occasional beer while filling the most stressful job on earth should come as a surprise to no one. If you are even remotely upset by this story, you are an idiot.
Bottle it, sell it, apply profits to deficit?????? I will drink a few to help our economy!
I'm down with that, Quentin. Ha!
CNN should probably shut this thread down, as it's obviously one pathetic teabagger troll that's responsible for 99% of all the comments here.
Wow, what a bunch of whiners. I'm so glad all the right wingers are so pure and clean. The president is honest. I suppose you're not used to that.
Obama is an actual beer drinker about as much as Romney is a crack user. It's just for the demographic appeal. Faker.
VIDEO TAPE HAS ALREADY PROVED THAT OBAMA HAS LIED ON NUMEROUS OCCASIONS ... AND, YET FOOLS, LIKE YOU, CONTINUE TO BELIEVED HIM ... AND, ACTUALLY TRY TO CONVINCE US TO DO THE SAME. YOU MUST HAVE A FEEBLE MIND, IF YOU BELIEVE WHAT YOU'RE TOLD BY LIARS, OVER WHAT YOUR OWN EYES AND EARS TELL YOU. OBAMA SUPPORTERS, LIKE YOU, ARE A BIG REASON WHY AMERICA IS CIRCLING THE BOWL.
Well a light hearted story gets a lot of UGLY responses. I can well imagine the kind of society such sour, angry, bigoted folks like those posting the STUPID videos would wish on us. Crawl back under your rocks please.
Did he do this knowing that Hops is in the Cannabis Family and beer should be a scheduled #1 substance.
Tax evasion in the white house
I bet he has a grow op with free electricity growing some really good Kush
He drinks beer to try to get the average white guy vote. In retaliation Romney will start smoking chronic and snorting crack.
The word white will get you censored.
He and Michelle insist on telling us what to eat and drink while he's drinking beer and she's been seen eating ribs on the white house lawn. They need to sign up for Obama care.
I toast to you President Obama! A job well done stabilizing the economy, putting millions back to work (inspite of the obstructionist by the right), Thanks for making healthcare affordable for millions of Americans, reigning in corruption on Wall Street, saving our Auto industry, looking out for the poor, the middle class, seniors, students, women, gays, immigrants and everyone in the melting pot. Thanks for inspiring and supporting democracy in Egypt, Libya and Sudan and thanks for killing OBL and other al Qaeda operatives (never mind the rightwing hillbilly xcons in Seals uniforms in some bogus video). Thank you for strenghtening our national security and thank you for restoring America's trust, image and credibility abroad. I toast to you for a job well dome Mr. President! Obama/Biden/Roberts 2012!
trailer dude, u really really dont believe that crap u just wrote, do ya ???? u pretty much wrong on every front, those are facts not the made up b.s. u just said go see America 2016, u will change your vote may be after the election u can have Oblunder & bozo move in with ya
@bb(s) for brains AND THAT AIN'T A COMPLIEMENT -
Don't you have cockroaches to kill inside the dented shipping container you and the cross-dresser Howard Latina/diana use for an (cough) office?? I hear RAID causes rashes, so that's probably what you have going on with your neck, unless you tried to off yourself with the phone cord 'cause Karl Rove hasn't returned any of your calls with pleas to be promoted to 'Legend In Your Own Mind" status like he's got.
I'm with you, trailer dude. I don't want to see the draft dodging, tax evading, mendacious flip flop destroy this great country.
A BUNCH OF DRUNKS SUPPORTING ANOTHER DRUNK ... WHOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR DRIVING AMERICA INTO A DITCH. A CLASSIC CASE OF THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND !!!
I guess Romney is at a disadvantage when it comes to the question, which candidate would you rather have a beer with?" since his religion prohibits alcohol consumption.
TO be fair I wouldn't want to have a beer with him even if he could.
The old "beer with the president trick". What's the unemployment rate again?
Obama 2012.
Romney can't be trusted.
once again repos have shown themselves to be a bunch of uneducated low life scum. True idiots that have nothing better to do than post stupid hatefull remarks. Your poster boy hank is a drunken druggie who has not got one once the talent his daddy had but is a wanna be. But then you guys worship crazies like palin and bachman and rush so what can we expect. What ya gonna do when we win in Novemvber whine or get with the program and move forward with the rest of the country??? Oh tell us about your taxes mitt.Oh and how abourt womans rights? Tell us how you didnt take stimulam money paulie but then you did but it wasnt your fault.
While I didn't vote for him, I think it's cool that he's brewing his own.
Though I think it's a travesty he's pictured here drinking Bud Light.
Ask the NYTimes. The Obama administration is well known for its leaks there to publize Obama's great achievements..
Now we know what the White House priorities are!
Romney does have a beer named after him; 'Polygamy Porter' brewed in Utah by Wasatch Brew Club.
Of course, they don't want you to think it has any alcohol in it. (wink)
As a brewer I am ashamed of these Holier-then-thou ignoramuses posting negative things about beer brewing just because the President has invested a miniscule fraction of his time to this. Unfortunately, we are not all Mormon thank you very much.
Our fore-fathers brewed beer, George F-ing Washington was a beer brewer. Our country's founders met in a tavern whilst discussing our revolution two and a half centuries ago.
You are all trolls.
I congratulate, your idea is useful
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