RI Brewery Creates Beer Honoring Jimmy Carter's Impact On Craft Beer Industry: Report

PROVIDENCE, RI — Narragansett Brewing Company in Providence will reportedly honor former U.S. President Jimmy Carter's impact on raft beer by creating a new brew in his honor.

The new beer will be on tap this weekend to honor Carter, who died Dec. 29 at age 100, after a long battle with cancer. Narragansett Brewing Company President Mark Hellendrung told WPRI 12 the new beer will add natural peanut butter flavoring to its award-winning porter, a nod to Carter's beginning as a peanut farmer.

In October 1978, Carter signed a bill legalizing brewing beer and wine at home, which many breweries across the country credit as the birth of the craft beer revolution.

"That’s the role of government, presidents, is really to just provide the framework for innovation, entrepreneurship, and just growth, and he certainly planted those seeds," Hellendrung told WPRI 12.

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