Sam Kass: We are in the White House kitchen.

And we are very excited because we are brewing our

second round of White House beer.

This round we are actually brewing another honey ale

and we are going to brew a honey porter.

Brewing beer is becoming a thing that Americans

are doing in their your homes and garages across the country.

And the President certainly thought it would be a good

idea to see if we can join the American people in that time

honored tradition and brew some of our own beer.

So we got the recipe from a local brew master.

Matt Slateri helped us get this going from the Navy mess,

and Charlie Brandts who actually is our beekeeper

also who is at home and gave us some tips.

We adapted our recipe and really made it our own.

Tafari Campbell: This is the steeping grain for the honey porter.

So what you are doing is you put this in the

beginning stages.

After that, you add in the hops.

Each one is different.

Honey porter has three stages of hops.

First we have to get it up to 170 degrees.

We extract the flavors from the grains.

And then we take the grains out.

And then we add the malt with the honey.

Sam Kass: The official White House beer cellar beer group,

check in on how our beer is going.

I am not sure if any camera has been down here before.

All right.

Welcome to the White House beer room.

Here is the honey porter and the honey brown.

We are monitoring temperature.

We are monitoring how often the, we have bubbles.

So this will continue to ferment for a few more days.

Then we'll transfer it into these and let it distill.

Tafari Campbell: I transferred the honey porter into the second fermentor.

As it is siphoning like this, you don't want to go too fast

creating a lot of air which will make the beer taste bad.

They are all topped off.

You want to at least get the water to the, to the neck.

Cap is back on it.

Now we wait.

Got it keep it under lock and key.

You don't see any settlement and that is due in part to that

screen that is at the bottom of the siphoning.

Once it is in here, the only thing that has to be done is

add the bottling sugar.

So now, we hope there is -- what you do is, you take the

beer bottle and you basically you might have to fill it all

of the way to the top.

And once you remove the bottle, the beer drops

automatically to the right level.

You let it sit in the bottle for another two to three weeks

and then from there, into the refrigerator, and then it is

ready for consumption.

The only thing you have left to do is put the labels on and

pop the top.

Sam Kass: So this is the honey ale.

The President, inspired by brew masters brewing in their homes

and garages all over the country, wanted to

try this out.

And so he, he has paid for all of the equipment and all of

the ingredients and our chefs have worked on it

in our spare time.

And it has just become an amazing new tradition here

at the White House.

There has been a long history with presidents

in various out causes.

George Washington had a whiskey distillery and he

brewed beer at Mount Vernon.

And Thomas Jefferson grew grapes and made wine at Monticello.

But we asked the curators, is there any history of brewing

or distilling here at the White House?

And so they looked.

And it turns out that there was some evidence of drinking

during prohibition, but beyond that there is no evidence that

any beer or liquor has been brewed or distilled.

So we are very proud of our, of our new tradition here.

And we hope it last for years to come.

God, that is one incredible beer if I do say so myself.

America, I wish everybody could taste this, but we --

we don't quite brew enough.

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