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Just when I think I’ll never be able to stop writing about health care, I’m gifted with a wonderful story like this. Taking the President up on his offer of a beer with himself and Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., Cambridge police sergeant James Crowley isn’t going to settle for a Miller High Life. This from the WSJ’s Washington Wire:

“White House spokesman Robert Gibbs is hopeful that President Barack Obama will make good this week on that promised beer … But first, he has to find the Blue Moon.

The burly cop has requested not the most macho of beers for the White House get-together, Gibbs divulged. He favors a Golden, Colo., Belgian-style wheat beer. No word yet whether the White House will embellish the request with Blue Moon’s Harvest Moon Pumpkin or its Rising Moon Spring Ale. We assume the Full Moon Winter brew is out of season.”

I don’t know that I’d have the balls to tell the President of the United States what kind of sixpack he should pick up for our bullshit session, even if he asked me. I’d probably just drink what I was given.

But let me take issue with the WSJ’s Jonathan Weisman on one thing: there is nothing un-macho about a Belgian wheat beer. Blue Moon is brewed in a style that’s been working pretty well for about a millenium, give or take a century, and it delivers 5.4 percent alcohol by volume. That’s a hell of a lot manlier than the 4.2 percent abv, chock-full-of-rice Coors Lights and Bud Lights of the world.

Sure, Crowley could have done better. For one thing, Blue Moon is owned by Molson Coors, which is essentially the eleventh Canadian province. It’d be better if he’d asked for something more American. Samuel Adams is a no-brainer: Boston-based, American-owned and slightly upscale, but with plenty of Sunday barbq credibility. Their wheaty, citrusy summer ale also subs nicely for a Blue Moon. Oh well, maybe he’ll remember next time he’s at the epicenter of a race relations snafu that runs from Harvard Yard to Pennsylvania Avenue.