White House Race Discussion Beer Poll

flaming moes like to glue the orange to the pint glass with a dab of vaseline.

jipped

bad show old boy

did they jew you out of your change too

i started drinking red stripe a lot this year cuz the closest bodega didnt have much in the way of options, but ill actually ride for it at this point especially compared w/ most other beers @ that price point--its actually got some weight and flavor to it which is more than i can say for bud/corona/stella/whatever else is $3-$4/bottle at the bar

i guess bud is usually cheaper but whatever

plus red stripes label is so well designed

Wasn't it The Firm that made Red Stripe cool in America? I remember all these articles in the mainstream glossies about the "exotic" beer Tom Cruise drinks.

dunno, personally I'd never heard of it prior to visiting Belize in '01 or so

Red Stripe has always been cool (runnings) in America, big reggae sunsplash aspect to this.

Me and some friends got let off faredodging on the train once because we were drinking Red Stripe and the ticket inspector was Jamaican. Also it's made by DG who do a good ginger beer as well. Although I haven't tasted either of the others I have a real affection for RS so have to vote for it, unfair or not.

Obama should have picked a can of Old Style.

I had my own solo beer summit last night and I was drinking Red Stripe. I love the bottle but the best way to drink it is out of a glass.

red stripe. nothing spectacular imo but def the best of these three. would choose red stripe >>>>>>> bud light >>> blue moon.

red stripe also has prob one of the coolest bottles/labels in beer

also i thought obama was into bud heavy

Red Stripe my fave w food, esp summer foods like GRILLED ANIMAL FLESH and spicy sauces, etc.

Obama should've gone with Goose Island -- sure, most people haven't heard of it, but he could talk about how it's a hometown favorite, wants to support local beermakers instead of international conglomerates, etc. And it looks like it's recently been made available in D.C., too.

and it's part owned by A-B anyway

Not drinking some kind of American micro is stupid imo. Think of the spin possibilities!

1. American-owned
2. Small business
3. Probably uses US-sourced ingredients
4. Shows diversity of American culture
5. Tastes better

yesterday on npr they actually corrected their reporting of obama's beer choice mid-story from bud to bud light and i briefly wondered if he's on a diet? but i guess he just acquired a taste for it during his days of mass beer consumption? i don't really have a problem with him drinking bud but bud light is weak.

yeah but it paints him as an elitist liberal snob xp

Plus Budweiser is delicious so there's that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N3iVHxP8FQ

tbh three guys drinking three different beers is wack and def takes away from the authenticity of this highly inauthentic event.

Bud Light is fine after a few other drinks - it's like water!
Blue Moon is okay for about half a bottle/glass, then it's too heavy and sweet.
Red Stripe is a fine all around choice.

i had a bud light last night exactly for that reason, cr?m.

yesterday on npr they actually corrected their reporting of obama's beer choice mid-story from bud to bud light

I think Obama himself originally chose Bud, then changed his mind.

Plus Budweiser is delicious so there's that.

― Like most people my age, I am 33 (Laurel), Thursday, July 30, 2009 2:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ha, I was basically waiting for you to show up.

and it's part owned by A-B anyway

Yes, I keep forgetting that.

laurel grabbed the last bottle as obama was reaching for it

red stripe, the other two suck

^^^

also that bottle shape is oddly irresistible.

It was a good sub for people who mourned Oly stubbies.

i am racist against both american lagers and light beers tbh

Red Stripe has always been cool (runnings) in America, big reggae sunsplash aspect to this.

most OTM thing on this thread, although i'm not sure how cool runnings it is outside of brooklyn/lower manhattan/those environs.

I miss Red Stripe Crucial Brew :-(

I won't say it was prevalent in the Twin Cities in the 80s but it was definitely around; I remember seeing it in high school.

Last Red Stripe I had was on the beach in North Carolina, at a wedding that involved a Jamaican dude.

My dad, who is not a big drinker, got obsessed with Red Stripe a few years ago! He bought like two cases of it when my brother and I came to visit, then got mad when we drank it (lol).

it seemed pretty obv that obama's choice was just a PR decision. and less of a 'try to win over bud lite voters' play, more a 'avoid picking something that becomes a fox news talking point'...

I voted blue moon cause I don't really like red stripe.

i associate red stripe with nyc hipster dive bars where the white people drinking it will probably be driven home by rasta cabbies.

cute bottle, good american lager:
http://www.alcoholreviews.com/uploaded_images/full-sail-session-lager-717101.jpg

i associate red stripe with nyc hipster dive bars where the white people drinking it will probably be driven home by rasta cabbies.

― hat for slashes (get bent), Thursday, July 30, 2009 4:37 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is true but dont forget that theres another huge non-white non-hipster population in nyc that drinks a lot of red stripe too!

oh wait this is actually based on something that happened? i do not pay attention to things so i was baffled by poll

also there are people not in nyc

many of them drink red stripe

look at china, for example

some chinese people even own small red books, to show their brand loyalty

where i live the jamaicans & west indian folks drink mackeson & dragon stout more than red stripe.

is the little red book on kindle?

Funny you mention China:

LONDON (Reuters) - Chinese beer Snow leapt ahead of Bud Light to become the world's biggest selling beer as China stretches its lead as the largest beer market in the world, according to provisional data from researcher Plato Logic.

Snow, which is brewed by SABMiller and its Chinese partner China Resources Enterprises Ltd, saw its 2008 sales volumes jump 19.1 percent to 61 million hectoliters putting it well ahead of Bud Light and sister brew Budweiser.

hectoliters!

this is true but dont forget that theres another huge non-white non-hipster population in nyc that drinks a lot of red stripe too!

i knoe

the new album from Sufjan Stevens

tbh i think this beer meeting was awesome

Yes, because Crowley made a joke about it and Obama decided to call his bluff.

Did not know!

yeah that's crazy i had no idea--i like the meeting more and more the more i think about it

If there is any rhetorical imagery I think people should take away from it, it's the idea that people who have issues with each other that stem from racial friction can actually sit down and talk to each other like rational adults and come out the other side still behaving like rational adults.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/07/30/harvard.arrest.beers/index.html

Earlier Thursday, Obama said the chat was prompted by an exchange he had with Crowley, who said in a phone call with Obama, "Maybe I'll have a beer in the White House someday."

The president replied that that could be arranged.

also lol Obama, you are awesome:

"This is not a university seminar. It is not a summit. It's an attempt to have some personal interaction when an issue has become so hyped and so symbolic that you lose sight of just the fact that these are people involved," he said.

He said he would be surprised if the media makes the meeting out to be more important than his meeting Thursday with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of the Philippines, but "the press has surprised me before."

<3

oh, obamapaws

lol!

this whole episode has depressed me greatly, and the presidents involvement was pretty dim, but that is great

yes mr president there will be 4 kajillion blog posts about yr meeting w/ gloria macawhatsis

maybe she can bring him a six pack of san miguel

Kudos for completely misinterpreting Obama's slam on the media coverage of Beer Summit 2009

srsly mr president you need to start drinking some real beer

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/51071705Sanmiguel.jpg

"the press has surprised me before."

http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:zCN6ltCiN7NQpM:http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/molson_dry.gif

red stripe gonna walk this poll obv, 2nd place is a bit more uncertain?

of the three, blue moon is the only one which constitutes a 'good' (but not great) beer. raise yer standards

I've got a few stripes in my fridge. don't mind if I have one right now..

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

probably have to go with Red Stripe, even though I don't love it. Unless I was simply having a single beer, Blue Moon would be the last one I'd go for if presented these three options.

Hoooray beer

shoulda had a lone star

http://www.djibnet.com/photo/400394507-obama-the-cowboy.jpg

^^OK so any excuse for that pic amirite?

mos def

Five years ago today!

Which I pointed out on Twitter and Skip Gates retweeted. :)