Presumptive favorite beers for presumptive presidential nominees
If those proposed town hall meetings between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama come to fruition, one question I hope gets asked is "What is your favorite beer?"
Weeks ago I read a press report (and I still believe press reports) of Obama sipping a Yuengling in Pennsylvania. Yet since he hails from Chicago I am guessing he is an Old Style guy.
This raises the question: Can a candidate for change embrace an Old Style?
McCain's father-in-law, James Hensley, owns one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributorships in the country. McCain once worked for his father-in-law, traveling the state of Arizona promoting AB products.
I wonder which of the many AB beers would he pick as his fave? I am guessing he goes back and forth between Bud Light and Bud.
What do you think are the presumptive (I love that word) candidates' favorite beers?
What do you think should be their favorites?
Comments
Why not Goose Island for Obama? It is excellent beer.
For McCain I nominate the John Wayne Stout from a brewpub in Newport Beach, CA.
Posted by: Mark | June 5, 2008 3:08 PM
I second Goose Island for Obama since it is a Chicago beer and very good. Since McCain was in the military he must have sampled some fine brews in his travels. Was he ever stationed in Germany? Of course, out of deference to his in-laws, he will have to choose Budweiser.
Posted by: Duane | June 5, 2008 3:56 PM
McCain would definitely drink an AB beer but not necessarily Bud or Bud Light. He'll probably drink Michelob Porter. Described as "slightly bitter malty brew, with pronounced caramel and coffee notes." ALso sounds like a description for the man--and allow him to be "down to earth" while being choosy.
Obama is tougher. Hailing from Hawaii, Indonesia, Kansas, Boston and New York before ending up in Chicago, I would believe that his preferred beer would be some kind of unfiltered wheat beer. Either Goose Island 312 Urban ("it's a beer that's densely populated with flavor and loaded with character. We don't filter it, so none of its life and soul is stripped away.") or Leienkugel's Honey Weiss ("select pale and wheat malt, cluster hops and a hint of wisconsin honey give this unique refresher a clean, crisp, slightly sweet taste")
Posted by: Bolt | June 5, 2008 5:31 PM
I emailed all three campaigns several weeks back with this EXACT question. Not one of them responded (fair enough).
However, Obama's campaign rudely added me to their email list, unsolicited, so I got all the campaign mass propaganda emails for a while.
Don't answer my question, fine, but don't add me to your email list while at the same time not helping me. Argh.
And yes I second Goose Island.
Posted by: Brian | June 5, 2008 10:22 PM
I know Senator McCain will not be drinking a "33 Export"
http://beergeek.stores.yahoo.net/33exlabe12vi.html
Posted by: bryanintimonium | June 6, 2008 11:25 AM
Not sure about McCain or Obama. Chicago does have some tasty Goose Island brews. I'll nominate McCain with a fierce old school beer, a baltic stout or a rauchbeer
There was a clip of Clinton this morning on NPR where they were discussing whether she was someone people "would have a beer with" and therefore votable. She stated that she had plenty of beers on the campaign trail, especially some tasty locals and microbrews. Maybe that's why she lost
Posted by: Mike | June 6, 2008 1:42 PM
I really don't care it's like favorite haircut. I really been amused how many beer people have brought it up this year.
Posted by: Thomas | June 17, 2008 10:10 PM