Let me weigh in on the beer summit.... we all know the story and what happened or pieces of it. I read the entire police report and followed on many the story on many different news sites/blogs/wire reports. So I don't want to talk about the issues here. I want to talk about the beer selections, duh.
Here is a description of the event from the New York Times:
The menu for the meeting round an outside table in the warm Washington afternoon featured each man's preferred brew: Bud Light for Obama, Blue Moon for Crowley and Sam Adams Light for Gates. Vice President Joe Biden, also at the table, had a Buckler nonalcoholic beer.
The men drank from clear glass mugs and munched on peanuts and pretzels served in small silver bowls. Gates and Crowley brought their families to the White House and they toured the East Wing together before they sat down with Obama.
A national debate about the arrest, the reaction and the "beer summit" carried into evening news shows as commentators dissected the implications of the meeting for the race issue.
The men drank from clear glass mugs and munched on peanuts and pretzels served in small silver bowls. Gates and Crowley brought their families to the White House and they toured the East Wing together before they sat down with Obama.
A national debate about the arrest, the reaction and the "beer summit" carried into evening news shows as commentators dissected the implications of the meeting for the race issue.
It has been reported all week that Gates had requested a Red Stripe Lager as his requested beer. Then before the Beer Summit, Jim Koch, founder of Boston Beer Co.-Sam Adams, a Boston based company that helped revolutionised the microbrewing business was on NPR saying he was disappointed that no one at the Beer summit was drinking a micro brew but instead were drinking beer made and mass produced by big business, big companies. It has now been reported that GATES changed his mind and requested a Sam Adams Light and drank that.
Bud Lite-Anheuser-Busch Co.
Red Stripe Jamaican Lager-Desnoes and Geddes LTD
Blue Moon-Molson Coors Co.
I have been thinking all week... what beer I would request if I was sitting down to drink a beer with the President? My pick would be-Fisherman's Ale from the Cape Ann Brewing Co. A crisp & refreshing German Kolsch style ale offering an exceptional, imported barley flavors in a lighter style! 6% ABV. A Gold Medal winner at the 2007 Great International Beer Festival for Light Ale! Plus they donate a portion of all money made to the Northeast Seafood Coalition to help the local economy.
No comments:
Post a Comment