Inside the White House: Beer Brewing

[William Seger]

3. Coolest President, ever

Dang, I'd love to get a bottle of that!

I haven't done any homebrewing for several years, but one lasting result of the experience is, now that I know how "real" beer is supposed to taste, I can no longer drink the crap produced by Budweiser, Miller, Coors, etc. That isn't just snobby elitism, either; those typical American beers use rice and sometimes corn as cheap substitutes for barley, so the flavor is distinctly different -- and crappy. I have to laugh when their commercials tell you that their stuff needs to be as cold as you can get it. The reason is, it needs to be so cold that you can't really taste it. As soon as it starts getting warm enough to actually taste, all you can taste is the nasty sourness of that rice and corn.