Former Marine Sgt. Dakota Meyer didn’t just get a taste of gratitude when he received the Medal of Honor from President Obama on Thursday. He also got to drink a beer with the president — and not some generic brew, either. It was White House Honey Ale — the microbrew that Obama’s staff has been making with equipment the president purchased with his own money. The recipe uses one pound of honey from this year’s 160-pound harvest from the White House Bee Hive, and Obama debuted the sweet home-brewed beverage at the last White House Super Bowl party, where attendees slugged back 90 to 100 bottles of the stuff. Since then, W.H. chefs have been brewing small batches, shelling out bottles for the president’s St. Patrick’s Day party as well as a June batch to ring in the summer. (Surprisingly enough, this is the first beer that’s ever been made at the White House.)
