mwedge
07-30-2009, 10:45 PM
http://www.beeraday.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mamas-little-yella-pils-can.jpgToday featured the most highly anticipated beer story of the year — President Obama’s sit-down with Sgt. James Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Everyman VP Joe Biden also joined in, presumably to enjoy the unusual experience of being the only person at the table who hadn’t said something stupid.
While I personally had been pulling for the group to share a bottle of craft beer such as Collaboration Not Litigation Ale (http://www.beeraday.net/beer/collaboration-not-litigation-ale/), it seems the Beer Summit featured Blue Moon, Red Stripe, and Bud Light (http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090730/capt.f42f12d78e9e4a70b41c2e6cf0ba475e.obama_whre10 2.jpg?x=400&y=246&q=85&sig=QGPU_ktBAWo8bVkSzq.cWA--) — all beers made by foreign conglomerates. Naturally, the “craft beer community” has been up in arms, because if there’s anything craft brewers understand it’s how to get free publicity (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111341680&ps=rs).
So I’ve joined the ranks of many craft beer aficionados by cracking open a small batch American beer and raising a toast against unfair discrimination: beer profiling. My answer to this crisis is
While I personally had been pulling for the group to share a bottle of craft beer such as Collaboration Not Litigation Ale (http://www.beeraday.net/beer/collaboration-not-litigation-ale/), it seems the Beer Summit featured Blue Moon, Red Stripe, and Bud Light (http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090730/capt.f42f12d78e9e4a70b41c2e6cf0ba475e.obama_whre10 2.jpg?x=400&y=246&q=85&sig=QGPU_ktBAWo8bVkSzq.cWA--) — all beers made by foreign conglomerates. Naturally, the “craft beer community” has been up in arms, because if there’s anything craft brewers understand it’s how to get free publicity (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111341680&ps=rs).
So I’ve joined the ranks of many craft beer aficionados by cracking open a small batch American beer and raising a toast against unfair discrimination: beer profiling. My answer to this crisis is