Once You Get Used to Plant-based Beer, It’s Really Not That Bad

The 1992 United States presidential election saw Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeat incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush (as well as Ross Perot).

I was lucky enough to live in one of Bush 41’s whistle stops, Woodland Hills, CA, and listened to a speech in which he asserted that Clinton was such a thoroughgoing liberal treehugger that, if elected, the entire nation would become overrun with (the endangered) spotted owl.

That, of course, was nonsense, and everyone knew it, but at least it made more sense than what Donald Trump’s former economic adviser Larry Kudlow said about plant-based beer.

From this:

The bonkers brewhaha was part of Kudlow’s raging criticism on Fox Business Friday against the proposed Green New Deal, which he claimed would end the country’s consumption of meat, eggs, cheese and dairy. None of that’s true; there’s nothing in the text of the plan that would ban those products.

“Speaking of stupid,” he began. “America has to, get this, America has to stop eating meat, stop eating poultry and fish, seafood, eggs, dairy and animal-based fats. OK, got that? No burgers on July Fourth. No steaks on the barbecue. … So get ready. You can throw back a plant-based beer with your grilled Brussels sprouts and wave your American flag.”

Last time I looked, beer was brewed with wheat, malt, and hops–and not a molecule of beef.