From Kid Rock to Barack Obama: Enjoy a Celebrity-Inspired Beer

From Kid Rock to Barack Obama: Enjoy a Celebrity-Inspired Beer

There’s a lot of ways to know you’ve “made it,” becoming a full-fledged celebrity or at the very least a noteworthy D-Lister. It may be a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame or it could just be a post on Perez Hilton complete with Microsoft Paint graffiti on your picture.

 

But the best way to know you’re a real “somebody” is to have a beer dedicated in your honor. It doesn’t happen often, but could there be a better sign of appreciation? Not that I can think of, that’s for sure
With that in mind, Kid Rock is probably feeling pretty badass right about now. Not only is a Michigan Brewery creating a line of products for the star (can I call Kid Rock a star?), but they’re getting a tax credit to do so.

 

The Michigan Economic Growth Authority approved a $722,957 credit so the Michigan Brewing Co can make Kid Rock branded beer and create more than 100 jobs along the way. Though the beverage’s name, style, taste, price and everything else havng to do with it has yet to be decided, don’t you worry… it’s all coming.

 

So who else has had the pleasure of being associated with drunkenness? Take a look at these other “celebrity”-inspired ales (and I use the term “celebrity” loosely):

 

Larry the Cable Guy

 

Nothing says cold, refreshing beer (after beer, after beer, after beer) quite like Larry the Cable Guy. That’s presumably why Schilling Bridge Winery in Pawnee City, Nebraska, the comedian’s hometown, created “Git-R-Done” beer, named for the redneck’s famous phrase. The Schilling family had this to say: “Rednecks love quality too.”

 

 

Billy Carter

 

Jimmy Carter was president of the United States of America. His brother Jimmy was a college drop out who ran a failed candidacy for mayor and was accused of “peddling influence” as a lobbyist. With credentials like that, why shouldn’t a beer be created in his honor. Supposedly 2 billion cans were made in the late ’70s, but much, much less was sold. And that’s the sad story of Billy Beer.

 

 

Barack Obama

 

Seeing as how everything under the sun was created with Obama’s likeness (including condoms) it’s no surprise that there’s a beer with him in mind. In fact, there were two. Belgian-owned Brewery Ommegang sought to cash in on the presidential candidate’s fame by creating an “Obamagang” beer. Unfortunately the government nixed the attempt to use Obama’s name or likeness without his permission so the beer was renamed Inauguration Ale 2009. Far, far away in Kenya, another beer exists in the spirit of Obama. Back in 2004, around the same time Obama became senator of Illinois, Senator beer was born.

 

 

Honorable mention: Rooster McConaughey

 

No, Matthew McConaughey’s oldest brother does not in fact have a beer named for him. However, he does have a baby he named for a beer. It’s going to be interesting growing up as Miller Lyte.

 

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