As most of you already know, I like beer (no, I am not channeling Brett Kananaugh). I homebrew beer, and I do a pretty good job, if I may pat myself on the back a little. I've got approximately 50 medals and ribbons I've won through the years at homebrew competitions. Since you can sometimes refer to a competition as a "meet", I could say I've done "beer meets".

What I have NEVER done is make "meat beer". You know why? Because it's not a thing. Despite the Bud Lite commercials, there are four ingredients that comprise beer:

• Grain
• Water
• Hops
• Yeast

Meat is not a beer ingredient (except for the occasional brewery that makes an "oyster stout", and tosses the entire oyster in, the yearly "mountain oyster" beer, or a local friend who experiments using crickets or cicadas). There have been those who've tried adding bacon (for some reason), but these are outliers and even in those rare cases, it's an adjunct - not a main ingredient.

Why? Because it's gross. Also - the fat in meat will kill the head on a beer (any oil will). And - plant products are required for producing alcohol.

By know you probably know I am getting ready to introduce one of the dumbest comments ever to be broadcast on FOX "News" (yes, that is a bold statement): I am of course referring to Larry Kudlow's comment that the Biden Administration will force Americans to drink "plant-based" beer:

Yeah, Larry - speaking of stupid. (Yes, that's a complete sentence that actually makes sense).

ALL alcoholic beverages are plant-based. Alcohol is produced when yeast consumes sugar. Sugar comes from plant sources (malted grain for beer, grapes for wine, corn, barley and/or rye for whiskey, etc.). He will try to walk this back, or say it was a joke or hyperbole, but I will not buy that meat-based lie - he decided to wing it in the context of a bigger lie, and totally blew it. It was like he said "Hold my meat-based beer...", and we all know nothing good comes after that.

The bigger lie is that the Biden administration is going to take away our red meat (one might guess after they get tired of taking away our guns, and FREEDUMBS!). FOX "News" host Juan Williams broke the "news" that they be lyin' 'bout some stuff:

So an article in a British tabloid that cited a university study in the context of trying to wrangle climate change somehow morphed into "Biden gonna take our burgers!". They kept repeating this lie (even Insurrection Barbie, QOP MTG, and DTJr parroted the lie), until they eventually had to "issue a correction". By this time, the lie had been pounded into the heads of the True Believers, and they will believe it no matter what facts you try to stuff into their empty heads.

So we can drink a plant-based beer and laugh at Kudlow, but the professional liars are tossing red meat to the gullible, hungry for yet another reason to rise up against the "tyranny" of government.