Bottoms Up

What is it about beer and Pennsylvania? Both Obama and Hillary campaigned relentlessly here in California. Did they ever enter a pub or a brewery. Nope. Just sipped Napa Valley wine.

But in PA, oh my. Consider this photo in this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer by Sarah J. Glover. That’s Obama hoisting a glass at Bethlehem Brew Works in Bethlehem, PA.

You can read all about it on Lew Bryson’s blog here.

It’s actually a photo grabbed from a video by Ms. Glover covering Obama campaigning in Pennsyvlania Sunday, posted on the Inquirer’s website.

Here’s another grab from the video: Obama actually drinks the beer and likes it.

I clicked on the link for Bethlehem Brew Works. The place is huge: 250 seats and beers like “Steelworkers’ Oatmeal Stout. Too bad there aren’t any more steelworkers in Bethlehem to enjoy it.

Bethlethem Steel Works by David Robert Crews
Found this on the Steelworkers Archives:
After 122 years of steelmaking and the employment of up to 165,000 people in 1957, the once mighty No. 2 U.S. Steelmaker, Bethlehem Steel, made its last cast in Bethlehem on November 18, 1995…READ MORE.

Well, at least we have Steelworkers Oatmeal Stout. It is some (very small) consolation.