Presidential beer choices

Without getting into the politics of it, following are apparently the beer choices for today's White House meeting:

"The president will drink Bud Light, Gates will have Red Stripe, and Crowley will drink Blue Moon, [White House spokesman] Gibbs said."

Blue Moon, for Canadians, is just "Rickard's White". There are many better witbiers around that aren't made by Coors, but it's still the best choice of the three on a Washington summer day.

Good heavens, man, Bud Light? I agree with this guy. Given the historic outcry over dijon on the burger, I know that he's got to choose carefully, but Sam Adams would have been a better way to go however you look at it. Especially for a contretemps originating in Cambridge, Mass.!

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Update: this would have been a far more entertaining result.

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Further update: now CNN is saying that the beer choices were as follows:

"The president was drinking Bud Light, Biden was drinking Buckler (a nonalcoholic beer), Gates was drinking Samuel Adams Light and Crowley was drinking Blue Moon."

Leaving poor Joe out of it for the moment (nonalcoholic beer being like decaffeinated Diet Coke - why, o why?), where's the scandal over the Gates switcheroo? There needs to be a crack team of investigators on this. Was Red Stripe too culturally significant? However, Gates now gets the "best beer choice" award. Let's give the President the benefit of the doubt and assume he would have had the same but for the implications of siding with one of the combatants. Gosh, statecraft is hard.

It's all about the beer, part II

In an update to a previous post, all US concerns about the purchase of Anheuser-Busch were washed away by enough money added to the deal. As is commonly the case, The Onion's editorial cartoon gets it right. [If you don't see the cartoon as satirical, please navigate away slowly and delete this blog from your bookmarks....]

It's all about the beer

This story is fun too. While neither Molson's nor Labatt's produced anything worth drinking for a few years before they were acquired, it's kind of fun to see the zombified corpse of Labatt's screwing up a deal for the maker of Bud. So let's recap - Anheuser-Busch says that the jolly Belgians and Brazilians shouldn't buy them because InBev acquired a Cuban distributor when they bought a Canadian brewer, and it's not clear how they'll be able to comply with the U.S.'s anti-Cuba laws?