What beers best represent Canada? Here’s what the PM chose

In the midst of all the Sochi hockey madness, our PM challenged American pres Barack Obama to a friendly gentlemen’s wager: a case of beer for the world leader whose men’s and women’s hockey teams performed best during the Games. Canada won, and Obama, being a good sport, shipped a couple two-fours of the White House’s signature ale to the Canadian Embassy in Washington.

@NSCPress YES! Thank you! The @WhiteHouse beer is safe & sound in #AmbDoer’s office… for now :) #viewfrom501 pic.twitter.com/AjHp0DNFPU

— Connect2Canada (@connect2canada) March 10, 2014

But one question loomed large in the minds of at least a dozen people: what beer would Stephen Harper have chosen to represent Canada, if he’d lost the bet? We now have the answer, thanks to a tweet published on the PM’s official account earlier this week:

Correction: the beer on offer was @beausallnatural & @BigRockBrewery Grasshopper. MT @connect2canada #BeerDiplomacy http://t.co/ayuLDgmbdj

— Stephen Harper (@pmharper) March 11, 2014

So, kudos to Ontario brewery Beau’s All Natural and Alberta’s Big Rock: the prime minister thinks your brews are good enough to serve as pally diplomatic props in his bromance with the leader of the free world.