"Obama hasn’t weighed in on his favorite brew. But foreign beers are not stocked at the White House, in a tradition dating to the Johnson administration."

This somehow made it into the end of an article about Henry Louis Gates, Jr’s arrest. Other important information learned; Skip Gates prefers Red Stripe and Beck’s, while Sgt. James Crowley has been known to drink Blue Moon.

Awaiting beer-centric analysis of American race and class tensions. Anyone?