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One FOIA request got results:
OBOBO’S HONEY PORTER
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WHITE HOUSE HONEY PORTER
Ingredients
2 (3.3 lb) cans light unhopped malt extract
3/4 lb Munich Malt (cracked)
1 lb crystal 20 malt (cracked)
6 oz black malt (cracked)
3 oz chocolate malt (cracked)
1 lb White House Honey
10 HBUs bittering hops
1/2 oz Hallertaur Aroma hops
1 pkg Nottingham dry yeast
3/4 cup corn sugar for bottling
Directions
In a 6 qt pot, add grains to 2.25 qts of 168˚ water. Mix well to bring temp down to 155˚. Steep on stovetop at 155˚ for 45 minutes. Meanwhile, bring 2 gallons of water to 165˚ in a 12 qt pot. Place strainer over, then pour and spoon all the grains and liquid in. Rinse with 2 gallons of 165˚ water. Let liquid drain through. Discard the grains and bring the liquid to a boil. Set aside.
Add the 2 cans of malt extract and honey into the pot. Stir well.
Boil for an hour. Add half of the bittering hops at the 15 minute mark, the other half at 30 minute mark, then the aroma hops at the 60 minute mark.
Set aside and let stand for 15 minutes.
Place 2 gallons of chilled water into the primary fermenter and add the hot wort into it. Top with more water to total 5 gallons if necessary. Place into an ice bath to cool down to 70-80˚.
Activate dry yeast in 1 cup of sterilized water at 75-90˚ for fifteen minutes. Pitch yeast into the fermenter. Fill airlock halfway with water. Ferment at room temp (64-68˚) for 3-4 days.
Siphon over to a secondary glass fermenter for another 4-7 days.
To bottle, make a priming syrup on the stove with 1 cup sterile water and 3/4 cup priming sugar, bring to a boil for five minutes. Pour the mixture into an empty bottling bucket. Siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. Distribute priming sugar evenly. Siphon into bottles and cap. Let sit for 1-2 weeks at 75˚.
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22 Comments!
Sounds like a recipe for disaster, as with all things obama. You could easily shatter a glass carboy with the ice bit. I’ve done it. And the ingredients sound like something a fagoul would dream-up. Malt, hops, yeast and water. Try to call anything else “beer” in Germany and they’ll Hitler your ass.
Obama couldn’t make beer if he had a map, a flashlight, and a 5-gallon glass carboy up his Moosechelle… which would probably fit.
P.S. Say what you want about Hitler, but at least he killed Hitler.
I prefer My blueberry mead, 2bls blueberry’s 1lb extra fine grade honey champagne yeast and water. Makes about a gallon.
I’d rather drink my cats piss.
It should be Summit Beer– you must use White House bee honey. It doesn’t say if the hops were grown in Michelle’s garden. He buys a home brew kit and has the “help” make it.
DAN RIEHL: Unpopularity contest: How Obama campaigned on your tax dollars this weekend. “The threshold to release Obama’s beer recipe was 25,ooo signatures … and they couldn’t even meet that. But they wanted the casual image of a beer drinking Obama out there for the Labor Day weekend … while New Orleans remains underwater, by the way. Heckuva job, Barry. Heckuva job. Now, about those college transcripts ….heh.”
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If you have sensative ears block them because I’m going to yell—–Here goes——–FOUR MORE BEERS!!!! It’s not beers? Well what is it than/then—woman/women– What else could it possibly be??
What magazine was this recipe lifted from?
Does he extract the dry yeast from Moochelle?
It’s halal, right?
Who’s drinkin’ all that beer, anyway? Michelle?
Mebbe he’s having a lot of beer summits.
… or tradin’ it for contributions.
Hey, I wouldn’t put it past ‘im.
Pull up a
stoolchair at The Oval Office brew pub.Hey! There’s an empty one over there!
My farmer instinct informs that the only use for *Honey Porter* is can lids in the garden to kill slugs! OOhh wait, slugs? Plenty of em in the White House, Yes?
Claire,
How did you know it was on page 17?
love and kisses,
ColJ
“Does he extract the dry yeast from Moochelle?”
#8 Cheesy: While I might say some pretty nasty things (on rare occasions), that right there was just downright rank! Ewwww!!!elebenty!!1!!!
Not to be concerned Hog. You are the go to. I am with the Colonel on this one….. Honey Porter? Pass.
When I’m working around the Lair on weekends, it’s Corona Lite. More beer, less drunk.
That is “Regular”
Thank goodness Obama came over and helped me do the wood trim upstairs. Couldn’t have done it without him.
Wow, another great & important reason to vote for BamBam & his gang!
Incidently, the home of the WCTU is riaht-cher in Evanston, Illinois.
You can judge a man by what he drinks. If he doesn’t drink, he’s made a decision, which is good.
If he drinks a good bourbon, scotch, or a fine beer made by a quality brew master, he’s shown he’s matured and developed a taste for fine beverages.This too is good.
If he drinks horse piss disguised by the name “honey porter”, he probably rides a girls bike while wearing a helmet. This isn’t good. A man like that can’t be trusted.
^^ Thank you, Jess. Just for that I’m gonna put this piss vodka down (for now) and pour me a little shot of Maker’s Mark that I keep around for special occasions. One ice cube, thank you.
Historically, porter was a commoner’s drink, made from the tailings of the brew process. Brewer’s gumbo, more or less. Started with bitter wort for a base, with flavoring grains such as malted or unmalted barley, wheat, oats, or rye, roasted or unroasted, often with adjuncts like honey, molasses, sugar, and spices such as licorice root, moss, burnt bread, various herbs, tea, sometimes coffee. Fermented with leftover ale-yeast cake at room temperature. The original “house brew”.
The brew-club I used to belong to made up a tribute batch each month, starting with the recipe for “Tumultuous Porter (goat-scrotum ale), then throwing in all of the leftover fixings the members had saved the previous month. Always interesting, usually tasty.
Be a lot simpler just to buy a case of Sam Adams.
When I first saw the words “OBOBO’S HONEY PORTER”, I thought, “Honey wagon???”
Hog (#1): You mean, it doesn’t conform to the reinheitsgebot?
Hear, Hear! What Jess (15) said! Cheers!
I’m having a wee dram of Tito’s bestest Wod’ka!
It’s the only alcohol I can consume with my meds!
‘Honey porter’?
Is that the code name of the pilot that flies the First Mooch to her vacation destinations?
I’ll stick to a Rolling Rock now and then.
And now is then.
i wouldn’t let my dogs drink anything the DalaiBama had anything to do with.