Presidential Beer

I’ve been remiss in not yet mentioning that Barack Obama is a home brewer, and that the White House has released his recipes. I was planning on trying to recreate them for myself, but Northern Brewer has done it for me!

Both of the President’s beers prominently feature honey sourced from Michelle Obama’s beehives on the White House lawn. Yes, that is the best sentence that has yet appeared on this blog, for those keeping track. Mitt Romney, by contrast, cannot drink beer.

There are two recipes, a honey ale and a honey porter. I just brewed an orange blossom honey heffeweizen, so I’m going to hold off on trying the honey ale for now. But the honey porter sounds interesting. I had never considered honey in a porter, but it could be pretty good. I’m excited to try it out.

So many beers, so little time! And not enough, not nearly enough, fermentors.

 

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