Rick Santorum, Beer Enthusiast, Talks About His Favorite Brews

GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum made a swing through the Millstream Brewery in Iowa this weekend to both taste and talk about his favorite beers.

"As far as drinking and tasting, it's the stouts, the bocks, and then the white ales and the wheats," Santorum told reporters. "Not a big fan of IPAs, a little too bitter."

Santorum also said he enjoys drinking Guinness, or light beers when it's hot.

The meeting wasn't just about displaying his affinity for microbrews, however. Santorum also partook in traditional retail politics, talking to other customers at the brewery and encouraging the press contingent to grab a drink and engage him in a more casual setting.

"If you guys want to grab something," he told reporters, according to NBC News, "we can just sit in here and chat for a little bit?"

Santorum continued to highlight his social conservative platform in Iowa this week, discussing what he perceives as the long term damage that will be done by the state's legalization of gay marriage in an editorial interview with the Ames Tribune.

"I didn't expect (things) to instantaneously change," he told the Tribune. "Change takes time. I'm sure you'll start to see change in terms of what's taught in school. Instead of the story of the prince and the princess, there will be stories about two princes."

(Video above via NBC News)

 

 

Comments

[JacksonSF]

11:14 AM on 01/27/2012

Funny, we brewed a beer named after Santorum. Santorum's extra pale, nutty chocolate ale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxvLWI6UA1o&feature=plcp&context=C360f0dfUDOEgsToPDskIvT3t5XyqfmcnxkuzQWtpL

[ThinkCreeps]

01:48 PM on 12/15/2011

Bring me my cask of foaming ale, vassal!

[JacksonSF]

11:14 AM on 01/27/2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxvLWI6UA1o&feature=plcp&context=C360f0dfUDOEgsToPDskIvT3t5XyqfmcnxkuzQWtpL

[kareemachan]

12:59 PM on 12/15/2011

Good choice, Rickie. Beer is very manly, very masculine.

[Targetdog]

10:28 AM on 12/15/2011

He can take all the fabulousness out of being Gay, he is "The Most Uninteresting Man in the World!" Stay unemployed my friend.

[ThinkCreeps]

01:49 PM on 12/15/2011

Rick's still camped out in the bar.
Stay thirsty my friend.

[ThinkCreeps]

08:32 AM on 12/15/2011

Santorum drinks beer.

That sure sounds much more palatable than `beer drinks santorum'.

[DanoX]

05:20 AM on 12/15/2011

Funny. If a Democrat had done this the media would have gone into full frenzy mode about how they were a beer snob elitist!! Why can't he just dring Bud or Coors like real Americans, they'd rail!

[DanoX]

05:16 AM on 12/15/2011

His handlers coached him well for this stunt. To bad about his clothes those. Sort of Alex P. Keaton tries to do cool.

[l78lancer]

01:47 AM on 12/15/2011

Santorum gets NO cool points for this skit. But now it's easier to understand why he says some of the stupid stuff he does.

It's the foam speaking through him.

[chaapai]

12:55 AM on 12/15/2011

In that jacket and sweater, he looks like a stick of roll on deodorant with hair.

[chaapai]

12:55 AM on 12/15/2011

aint gonna work Ricky, we still don't think you are human.

[Lorraine Danese]

10:11 PM on 12/14/2011

Eww just the pic, makes sick

[bump00000]

11:57 PM on 12/15/2011

Looks like a priest incognito.

[RazorClam61]

08:46 PM on 12/14/2011

I wonder how many beers it takes ole Rick before he starts thinking about gays showering in the military?

[kareemachan]

12:59 PM on 12/15/2011

One.

[teabagmetos]

08:43 PM on 12/14/2011

Beer Run
1) The act of having to leave one's present location (house, apartment, yacht, etc) during a social gathering so as to acquire more beer. This typically occurs when the previous supply of beer has run dry, thus necessitating the need to "run out and get some more beer,"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCPhIjmk-s

[teabagmetos]

08:37 PM on 12/14/2011

If it were me this would be the last Campaign stop for that day and a photo-op Bonanza !!!!

[ThinkCreeps]

06:01 PM on 12/14/2011

What's his dying child's favorite tipple?

[DanoX]

05:18 AM on 12/15/2011

Damn you went there! It is a valid point though. Chilling at the micro brewery knocking a few back while your daughter is at home slowly dying. Very compassionate conservative.

[ThinkCreeps]

05:38 AM on 12/15/2011

It just seemed a bit incongruous.

Especially coming from a lifelong prohibitionist.
I guess he's decided to put every aspect of his life in the closet.