Ok, so let me start this thread by saying: NO POLITICS! Let’s just focus on the news item and not your opinions pro or con of the administration in question.
Having said that: this is pretty rad and I was given the heads up by AHA GC Chair Chris P Frey…
There was homebrew served at the White House during the Super Bowl! When’s the last time that happened? Jefferson? JQA? Jackson?
http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2011/02/president-first-lady-host-white-house.html
I wonder if they will release the recipe? I would be curious to see what this brew really was
Ha! Neat! Although I’m surprised that a fellow Bears fan didn’t ask for a “%&@! the Pack” Pale Ale
Why the hell did they not serve this during the infamous “Beer Summit”?
Was Willy Nelson getting stoned on the roof, too?
Theory #1: BMC conspiracy
Theory #2: OG wasn’t right?
I don’t think those guys were big football fans.
I wanna join the Secret Service so I can become the official homebrew taste tester for the President.
I’d take a beer bullet for him. But not a “Silver Bullet!”
Hold on a tick…
There are only two people who live in the White House and who are in the age of majority – The President and First Lady. I hope they don’t plan on making more than 200 gallons a year! No one is above the law especially their chef!
The WH kitchen staff are all active military–Navy, I think.
Don’t think that’s quite the case. The Executive Chef Cris Comerford is a Filipino immigrant. Looks like she was recruited into the White House kitchen staff back during the Clinton Administration.
Given the old reputation of the awful food at the White House (foreign dignitaries used to complain that the food at the White House was the worst of any head of state) it may very well have been in the hands of military cooks! 
“The caterer acted stupidly.”
So where do you think they set up the propane burner?
don’t knock military cooks! some of it is pretty damn good fare! Guess it just depends on what branch your in and where you’re stationed… I was in the AF but remember the army food was damn good.
That’s the stewards, not the kitchen staff.
You’re right. I guess there’s a new category of “Residence Staff” whose incomes don’t have to be reported.
Something like nearly 39 Million/year budget for 469 employees from what I gleaned online.
http://obamafoodorama.blogspot.com/2010/07/what-are-white-house-chefs-salaries.html
I wonder if there’s a position for White House brewer?
They should install a brewery and serve homebrew at state dinners
This is a great story for our hobby!
Ooooh, thanks for that laugh!
I wonder how long it’s been since they actually brewed any beer, if any at all at The White House. I haven’t researched this but I would venture to say that we probably have had a president that was a homebrewer.
After a quick google search, the answer is yes…George Washington loved a good Porter and was a homebrewer.
Check out his recipe.
George Washington’s Beer Recipe
(Note: Following this recipe exactly will result in a beer with an alcohol content of about 11 percent — making it at least twice as potent as most of today’s commercially brewed domestic beers.)
To Make Small Beer:
Take a large siffer full of bran hops to your taste-boil these 3 hours. Then strain our 30 gall[o]n into a cooler put in 3 gall[o]n molasses while the beer is scalding hot or rather draw the molasses into the cooler. Strain the beer on it while boiling hot, let this stand till it is little more than blood warm. Then put in a quart of ye[a]st if the weather is very cold cover it over with a blank[et] let it work in the cask-Leave the bung open till it is almost done working-Bottle it that day week it was brewed."
Ahhh…he pitched it a little more than blood warm.
Well, the White House wasn’t actually occupied by a sitting president until John Adams took up residence in 1800. So Washington wouldn’t have brewed there. I think Washington did most, if not all, of his brewing at Mt. Vernon.