# If you were Obama, what would you be drinking at today's "beer summit"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [July 30, 2009, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770 "2009-07-30T13:16:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/81 "2009-07-30T21:44:35Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > The nuclear codes are printed on exotically-sided gaming dice? “I am sorry Putin, but you failed your saving throw. Roll 2d4+1 to determine the trade sanctions you suffer.” I drink bud light when canoeing, cuz when I fall in the water I can’t tell if I have added or subtracted from my beer. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/82 "2009-07-30T21:46:29Z")
> [@toadspittle](#): > > Yuengling. Yuengling Porter. I haven’t seen one of those for a real long time. He couldn’t do it though, everybody would think he was drinking a foreign beer. I can see the blogs now: China even owns the beer Obama drinks! ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/83 "2009-07-30T22:03:13Z")
Am I the only one who wouldn’t want to drink any beer until the term was over? I mean, you have a beer, get to laughing over handcuffs and trading “yo mama” snaps, have another two beers, and suddenly it’s all “Mr. President, North Korea is threatening a nuclear strike” and I’ve got to go deal with it. Total downer. Now, if I was VP, mind you, I’d be drinking 40’s in my underwear for four years solid. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/84 "2009-07-30T22:04:34Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Now, if I was VP, mind you, I’d be drinking 40’s in my underwear for four years solid. I’d still vote for you over Palin. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/85 "2009-07-30T23:36:17Z")
I’m wondering who bought the beer. If it was purchased with taxpayer dollars, I am **outraged** at this blatant show of wasteful spending. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/86 "2009-07-30T23:54:19Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Am I the only one who wouldn’t want to drink any beer until the term was over? I mean, you have a beer, get to laughing over handcuffs and trading “yo mama” snaps, have another two beers, and suddenly it’s all “Mr. President, North Korea is threatening a nuclear strike” and I’ve got to go deal with it. Total downer. > > Now, if I was VP, mind you, I’d be drinking 40’s in my underwear for four years solid. Vice President is like the coolest job ever for everyone except those who have a chance to get the job. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/87 "2009-07-30T23:54:21Z")
Biden drank a Buckler, not a 40. And wore clothes. But really, I’m not sorry he did. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/88 "2009-07-31T02:54:19Z")
What’s Obama got against his hometown? First he [flies in a St. Louis pizza chef](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/08/obama-bringing-st-louis_n_184860.html), now he’s drinking their beer? Perhaps he’s just trying to piss off Cubs fans though. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/89 "2009-07-31T03:01:31Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I’d drink the fermented blood of white Christian babies, while making a toast to the memory of Karl Marx! That doesnt taste as good as you’d think. And the calories? Oy veh! ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/90 "2009-07-31T03:13:46Z")
If Obama was a “REAL” black man from Chicago he’d be drinking Colt 45 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/91 "2009-07-31T03:45:46Z")
I’m not sure but it wouldn’t be Sam Adams. Their philosophy seems to be that hops=good and more hops=doubleplus good. But I hate hops. Hops are bitter. Bitter tastes bad. And I’ve had beers that were flavorful and not at all pisswater without resorting to hoppy bitterness. Of course I failed to make note of what they were at the time so now I’m more or less navigationally challenged when it comes to finding beer I like… ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/92 "2009-07-31T04:25:48Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > My issue is not so much the beer as that he actually said “teachable moment.” GAAAK! That just means he’s self taught. I’m surprised he didn’t choose a domestic beer instead of one from a company that was recently purchased by an overseas conglomerate. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/93 "2009-07-31T04:44:25Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I’m not sure but it wouldn’t be Sam Adams. Their philosophy seems to be that hops=good and more hops=doubleplus good. Sam Adams is not what I would consider a particularly hoppy brewery. On a hops scale of 1-10, I’d probably rate them 3 or _possibly_ 4 in hop usage. Their Boston Lager is slightly less are just as hoppy, say, Pilsner Urquell. Budmillcoors are basically a zero in hops. I can barely tell there’s any hops there at all. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/94 "2009-07-31T04:51:31Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > If Obama was a “REAL” black man from Chicago he’d be drinking Colt 45 😃 Technically he’s only half black so it would have to be [Urbock 23](http://www.schloss-eggenberg.at/site/en_srt_urbock.asp?id=85). ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/95 "2009-07-31T13:15:08Z")
I think it is very cool that the Presidental powers are cool with showing BOOZE . The last 8 years have been suspiciously dull. Beer is the nectar of people. To deny yourself its pleasures, is to deny yourself enterance into the gates of Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/96 "2009-07-31T13:46:28Z")
I’m not so sure Obama would want a Sam Adams, but Crowley has no excuse! As for what the pres should have ordered…Is it too elitist to drink a beer brewed in your honor? A beer like Sixpoint’s [Hop Obama?](http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/10607/41650) ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/97 "2009-07-31T17:29:13Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Ha! I grew up near Pittsburgh, and my dad had some rusty cans of Old Frothingslosh (“The pale stale ale with the foam on the bottom!”) that he just couldn’t bring himself to open. Ah, good times… We have some old bottles here in our china closet (my grandfather bought a bunch when it was released – my aunt and her friends drank most of them when they were teens, but there were a few left). When we sold my grandparents’ house a few years ago, those were one of the things we chose to keep. Seriously though, since I don’t drink, I’d probably ask for I.B.C. (Although if I did have something alcoholic, it’d be Bailey’s.) I read in the paper that Gates had something other than Red Stripe, but I can’t remember what it was. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/98 "2009-07-31T17:34:38Z")
Oh, it was [Sam Adams Light](http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09212/987707-84.stm) ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/99 "2009-07-31T17:46:03Z")
10 to 1 about halfway through that beer he was thinkin’ _Man, a girt sure would taste good right now._ ---
**Author:** ![Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/65b543/32.png) [@Hero\_From\_Sector\_7G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hero_From_Sector_7G)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770/100 "2009-07-31T17:48:21Z")
I’d drink [Fossil Fuel](http://www.fossilfuelsbrewingco.com/). I’m sure the press would love that. “Obama drinks the fermented results of a 45 million year old yeast strain” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-were-obama-what-would-you-be-drinking-at-todays-beer-summit/504770.md?page=6)