Bad Photoshop rendering. (Original image Pete Souza/White House)

As we mentioned in yesterday’s installment of the saga of DCist Honey Ale, the brewing will commence Saturday. Unlike the White House, where the beer-making process was once as secretive as President Obama’s kill list, DCist Honey Ale will be made out in the open, free for the general public to observe.

Tomorrow, DCist and the D.C. Homebrewers will gather at Smith Commons at 1245 H Street NE as we begin our intrepid quest to replicate White House Honey Ale. We obtained our D.C.-made honey Wednesday night, sourced from the rooftop apiary at American University. Our unexpected yeast issue, I’m told, has been resolved. John Lutz, our resident brewmaster and the home brewer who launched last month’s petition to get the White House to release its recipes, found the correct yeast through Maryland Homebrew, a store in Columbia.

Brewing will begin at 1 p.m., right at the peak of the H Street Festival. Anyone who wants to take a break from the hubbub of funnel cakes and folk art and instead learn how beer is made should join us at Smith Commons, which tomorrow will be pouring a range of ales from Three Stars Brewing Company, Flying Dog, Brewery Ommegang and other breweries. Our setup might be in the parking lot adjacent to the restaurant, fire code and all.

But as there was a popular uprising to reveal the secrets of White House Honey Ale, we want DCist Honey Ale to be transparent—the process, not the beer—and open to all. So swing by Smith Commons, down a tasty Three Stars ale, order up some of those lemon-poppyseed doughnuts and come make beer with us.

And if anyone at the White House is reading this, you’re invited, too. Please bring yourself, a good attitude and maybe a couple of bottles of your beer.