Food FYI: White House releases beer recipes

WHITE HOUSE BREW

Home brewers petitioned for the recipes for White House honey ale (made with White House honey) and White House porter, and they got them. Craft beer geeks started a petition asking for the recipes (and followed up with a Freedom of Information Act request) for the White House brews, which were released in full Saturday. [The Washington Post]

WARHOL SOUP CANS

Soup maker Campbell’s has started selling a new limited-edition line of Warhol-themed condensed tomato soup cans at most Target stores across the country. The cans (75 cents each) celebrate the 50th anniversary of the pop artist’s paintings of the familiar soup cans. [Los Angeles Times]

WINES FOR BARBECUE

A breakdown of which wines go with sausages, brisket, pulled pork and ribs. [Food & Wine]

CHOCOLATE FANS AND BITTERNESS

Fans of milk chocolate are able to more quickly identify bitter flavors than fans of dark chocolate, a study says. Not only are they faster to detect bitterness, they don’t like it, either. [Science Daily]

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