2 Sep 2012

White House releases closely guarded home brew recipe

5:24 pm on 2 September 2012

The White House has released details of one of its most closely guarded secrets - the recipe for President Barack Obama's home-brewed honey ale.

The beer is believed to be the first-ever made at the White House.

The recipe was kept under wraps until 13,000 people signed an online petition demanding to know it, and someone filed a freedom of information request.

Mr Obama has been taking the beer with him on the campaign trail, and has offered it to voters.

The ingredients include: light malt extract, amber crystal malt, honey, gypsum, yeast and corn sugar.

Cynics may say there is more than a bit of politics in the mix reports the BBC.

One of the oldest political cliches states that people vote for the person they would most like to have a beer with - and Mr Obama's rival in the November election, Mitt Romney, a Mormon, does not drink.