The Brewers Association wants us to drink some craft beer to celebrate President's Day.

OK! I'm always looking for a reason to drink some good brews and I've got a pretty good selection right now.

Here's an exerpt from the Brewers Association site about President's Day:

 

George Washington

The first president of the United States was known to enjoy some of the first American-made porter. An avid fan of the dark brew, Washington routinely sent for supplies of a Philadelphia-made porter to stock his cellar at Mount Vernon and the presidential residence.

Washington once recorded an early recipe for "small beer". Preserved in the manuscript collections of the New York Public Library is a notebook kept by Washington, which includes a hand-written recipe.

Thomas Jefferson

The third president of the United States was widely known as a wine lover, but also had a fondness for beer, so much so, that some of Jefferson's earliest designs for his Monticello estate included plans for a brewhouse and spaces for storing beer .

Beer was a staple at Jefferson's table and brewing at Monticello dates to the time of Jefferson’s wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, who oversaw the production of small, or low alcohol content, beer beginning in 1772 and likely continuing until her death in 1782.