Obama’s, Gates’ and Crowley’s beer tastes

6 comments July 30th, 2009

Granted, I only clicked through a few of the 15.6 million hits I discovered this morning when I googled “Obama and Gates and beer” (without the quote marks).

But I didn’t see one commenting on the tastes of the beers the trio will down today at the White House in the let’s-all-get-along-like-ebony-and-ivory-summit-to-diffuse-the-racial-profiling/cop-profiling/presidential-comment-stupidity hubbub.

Obama reportedly wants Bud Light; Harvard University professor Henry Gates, maybe Red Stripe;  and police Sgt. James Crowley, Blue Moon.

Paul J. Richards / AFP/Getty Images in the Los Angeles Times

These are reportedly the beers of choice, from left, of Police Sgt. James Crowley, President Obama and professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Well, unlike my colleague Kevin Haas, who in GO tomorrow writes about his high-fivin’ reasons for not drinking, I do drink beer. And I especially like the way Blue Moon tastes. It has a more pronounced orange flavor than other beers. I drink it when I’m especially hungry; it’s like eating a piece of dense bread from your local bakery.

I like an occasional Red Stripe, a Jamaican brew. It has a sharp bitterness at first taste, but that taste doesn’t hang around. And the beer is light enough. But I’m at a loss of words to nicely describe Bud Light, other than it is light-tasting. The only time, and not ever very often, that I drink it is when the only other option is Miller Lite.

Actually, I usually drink Corona, mostly because it’s lighter than Blue Moon and Blue Moon isn’t as available at eateries and bars.

Which beers do you like, and why? Post your comments.