I agree - it's time to get back to name-calling and accusations of racism over health care and stimulus packages. This "Beer Summit" is proving to have far too little partisan bickering. They will probably even watch baseball - how about a more controversial sport like swimming??

YES! I'm loving some Burning River! Great choice.

The fact that the cop picked Blue Moon makes me question his....well, nevermind. What a garbage choice!

Gotta be a 40 oz brother beer for this occasion, and it needs to be served by Billy Dee Williams.

English 800, Colt 45 or Schlitz Malt Liquor.

Then Obama could light up one of his Kool's.

Will they be serving pork rinds?

Isn't Al Sharpton going to be moderating this Post Racial Summit? Shouldn't at least one of the Just Us Brothers be in attendance?

Captain Marvelous -- your racism is so 70s -- and you failed to mention Good Times or the Jeffersons. Try harder next time.

Blue Moon isn't exactly what i would expect a family man with three children to drink. Things sound kind of liberal up in Cambridge -- you can tell its a blue state even if the police are stupid.

Captain Marvelous, the voice of the "Christian" Right. Keep it coming sir. You and your ilk are a hoot.

Malt liquor gets a bad rap. Perhaps it deserves it if one really looks at the way the brands are historically marketed. But, if we're debating a thing on it's merit, it's only fair for someone to take up malt liquor's beleaguered cause. Allow me...

Most occasions call for a craft beer, or at least a top shelf one. But some occasions call for revelers to release all their pretensions and let it all hang out. A rollicking rock and roll band in a seedy bar. A house party. A house show. College. Granted, most people pass through these phases in their twenties. But we shouldn't act like they didn't exist.

I've generally found that the cheapest beer is the best for these occasions. As such, I can't really find a boundary where PBR, High Life, or Coors Light are appropriate but Schlitz, Colt 45, or King Cobra aren't.

Once you loosen up and begin exploring the wild world of malt liquors, keep this simple rule in mind: The quality of a malt liquor is proportionate to the ferocity of the animal/object on it's label. *

A colt can kick your teeth out, but a blue bull can gore you to death (hence, Schlitz is a better malt beverage than Colt 45**). A King Cobra is the most deadly of all the malt beverage animal mascots, by weight. A Magnum will stop anything dead in it's tracks. Old English? Well, that's not very good at all - as evidenced by it's lack of a mascot.

*Adapted from an old Onion piece. I do not have a citation, but can describe the article. It was a wine buyer's guide. One of the criteria for selecting wine read, "The quality of a wine is inversely proportional to the ferocity of the animal depicted on it's label."

**Yes, Colt is also a brand of revolver. But there is a colt (the animal) on the can, so I group it within the animal kingdom for our purposes here.

Things sound kind of liberal up in Cambridge -- you can tell its a blue state even if the police are stupid.

OOOOhhhh!! Is that an insult? Gee, g-742308, is that allowed because you didn't call him a honky liberal? And were you trying to seem enlightened by letting us know that Cambridge/Boston was 'liberal'? I mean, haven't you ever heard of the Kennedy's, John Kerry, Harvard? None of those are exactly bastions of conservatism are they?

Right on!!! Burnin' River gets my vote!!

I am white, and I love pork rinds and an ice cold OE.

But, does it make me a racist for clarifying my race? Probably, so my apologies to all.

Frankly, I think Obama messed up, but I also think it's about time we move on. This is taking up valuable news time from Britney, Paris, and Lindsay.

Red Bull when it was a beer and not a stupid energy drink.

Do you mean "Red Dog" or was there really a Red Bull beer?

"More important issues"?

A beerfest already exceeds the full capabilities of this administration.

Yeah, but, Mr. President better keep a couple sets of boxing gloves handy in the event this meeting does not go well.

Back in the day there was Red Bull and 'Blue Bull' (don't know if that's what it was actually called) which Schlitz produced and sold in 40s. I used to drink 8-ball, St. Ides, Colt, Red & Blue Bull, Mickey's, Ballantine, Seventh Heaven and some crap called "Power Master" (anybody remember?) before it was taken off the market.

Now I think I would vomit if I ingested even a single ounce of any of the above.. Get me something Widmer, maybe Drop Top Amber.

Uh, amazing how our tastes change. lol

I'm not legal yet, so if I got to have a drink with the president, I'd probably have to have Sprite.

It's always Sprite. -___-

Alcohol? No thanks, that stuff's poisonous, fattening, and makes people stupid.

I'll take a bong hit though!

Hear, hear!

Anchor Steam or Anchor Porter. Also, I loved your work with Danzig.

Yes, Anchor Steam is certainly a good choice. Fantastic beer, even if it is a little pricey. Wait, you don't suppose it could be subsidized with an amendment to the stimulus bill, do you?

I am sure that Bush has a lot of free time now to address that war issue with you since he is the cause of the war not Obama, and fabricating a police report to justify an arrest is against the law. Now are you suggesting that the Police dept not do their job again and not respond to a call. If Crowley would have done his job correctly the first time, there would be no reason for this discussion.

glomtt ....obviously another "whitey" hating racist.

glomtt,

It's all Obama now.

How's that HOPE and CHANGE working out for you america, still gotta job?

NObama in 2012.

Begin again in 2010.

Now could you please remind us who put them there in the first place?

You seem to simply too tired to contribute.

Now could you please remind us who put them there in the first place?

Sure, it was Osama Bin Laden. Remember him? Remember that whole 9/11 thing? You folks just amaze me that you think Bush took office with some kind of unwaivable determination to start a war in the middle east. You need to file that story right next to the one about the aliens landing in a trailer park in Kansas, and Elvis buying slurpees in a 7/11 in 1996. It just isn't true, no matter how many times you say it is.

RavenMaven - You forgot the crazy story about how Iraq had anything at all to do with Bin Laden or 9/11. Even if you don't want to believe that Iraq was Bush's way of working out his daddy issues, you have to admit that it was a distraction in our attempts to capture or kill Bin Laden and those who actually had a part in the murder of thousands of innocent people.

I forget, what country did Saddam bomb again? Oh yes, Bin Laden was Iraq's leader! Silly public perception! Stupid public again gets it wrong. It was Saddam the whole time! He must still be alive too! Getting a slurpee at 7/11, no wait, serving a slurpee at 7/11. I guess that would be more of an true american perception. Ever try to untie a knot that has been pulled so tight for 20 plus years! Obama is not responsible for every answer the public has, he is not a God, never claimed to be!

Actually according to members of his inner circle, Bush and Cheney came to office with a plan to invade Iraq. :-)

Perfect choice. After a couple of those they'll all be trashed enough to speak freely.

LOL...that's what I voted for. A Wee Heavy from Vermont Pub & Brewery would do the same but Arrogant Bastard somehow has a better fit for this situation....

Give the prez something more elegant though...Grand Cru or Lindeman's Lambic (Framboise).

I wish I would have thought of that---LMAO

I say go for the Double Bastard.

Yuengling is a truly great American Beer, and the oldest brewed in America!

I tried this for the first time the other dat and indeed it is a GREAT Lager! My new favorite Beer!

It might not be the oldest, but Brooklyn Brewing company (just down the road from you, Pete) makes a really great lager.

It takes one to know one. He is not but, you are.

glomtt,

another well thought out response. How about "I know you are, but what am I?" Gee whiz, now I see how Obama got elected.

Obama is a racist and apparently so are the Obots. They should drink Miller Lite. Less filling! Tastes great! The next big argument in the White House.

Arrogant Bastard ale is awesome. Brewed in Portland I think.

Hey Gelbkreuz, it's brewed in Escondido about 1 hr north of San DIego.