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12 Best Beer Summit Headlines: Beer Diplomacy Brews Media Frenzy

by Scott Wu | July 31, 2009 at 03:07 pm

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Now that the Obama-Gates-Crowley beer summit is over, already I am feeling a bit nostalgic. It has been an intoxicating week for all of us reporting or following the news. The level of ingenuity in media is most vividly expressed through the headlines. It is, after all, a once in a life time opportunity to use beer puns in national political news headlines. Here is an unscientific top 12 headlines over the week:

"Coalition of the Swilling" (CBS News)
"The audacity of hops" (ABC)
"Ale to the Chief" (MSNBC)
"Beer Seers Pick Powwow Fave" (The New York Post)
"Red, Light, and Blue"
"Watered down"
"Suds Summit"
"Beer fest: Please get it over with. Thank you."
"A cop, a Politician and a Professor walk into a Bar..." (Gawker)
"The moment is beer: Obama, Gates, Crowley to chat" (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Obama Beer Summit Choice Make for a Happy Hour" (NPR)
"Will Beer Summit Leave Hangover for Obama?" (Business Exchange)

Source: CBS News

The New Yorker did a piece on how the beer summit could (should) have been: A Beer with Obama.

Lastly, my personal favourite, a comic sketch by xkcd: Understocked.

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Amy Judd

at 15:19 on July 31st, 2009

Haha, this is my favourite:

"Beer fest: Please get it over with. Thank you"

Jarrett Martineau

at 15:27 on July 31st, 2009

Now what should I call the media hangover I've got from all of this beer-mongering?

Scott Wu

at 15:36 on July 31st, 2009

It's funny that when we saw the news and think, "who's that 4th guy?"

caj1

at 15:42 on July 31st, 2009

My favorite one, listed above is "The audacity of hops." There are lots of good puns out there also about which beer label each one of them could have been drinking, given the circumstances of the meeting!

Scott Wu

at 15:58 on July 31st, 2009

Oh yeah this one from New York Post is good.

caj1

at 16:39 on July 31st, 2009

Here's another good set of suggestions from Dana Milbank of The Washington Post,

"Had they been a bit more creative, the summiteers could have used their time in the White House beer garden to promote some small American brews. Gates could have requested a San Quentin's Breakout Stout from Marin Brewing, Crowley could have sampled an Instigator Doppelbock from Pennsylvania's Sly Fox Brewhouse. And the president clearly should have chosen Ale to the Chief from Colorado's Avery Brewing." From article published today on www.washingtonpost.com, "Beer Summit Wasn't One for the Guinness Book."