With the close of Election Day,  a microbrewery in Red Hook, will turn the page on one of its best selling products. The Hop Obama, a beer based on the Democratic candidate, will end its run. Some 30,000 glasses worth of the brew found its way into 300 bars, restaurants, and supermarkets across New York City and Massachusetts.

New York City News Service Reporter Mark Morales went to the Sixpoint Craft Ales brewery, the birthplace of the Hop Obama. He finds out why the brewery was inspired by Obama’s run for the White House.

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