WASHINGTON – The U.S. men’s hockey team may have lost, but President Barack Obama still won.

Had the United States defeated Canada on Sunday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper would have owed Obama a case of Yuengling beer because of a bet they made on the gold-medal game. Instead, Obama owes Harper a case of Molson beer from Canada.

Still, Obama could be enjoying a fridge stocked with frothy Yuenglings anyway.

U.S. Rep. Tim Holden, D-Pa., will stop at the Pottsville, Pa., brewery Tuesday for a case of Yuengling to be delivered to the White House – at the request of fifth-generation owner Dick Yuengling himself.

“We haven’t sent a case to the White House since Prohibition ended,” Yuengling said in an interview Monday. “It might be time to send another one down there.”

The Yuenglings sent a truck filled with beer to President Franklin D. Roosevelt the day Prohibition was repealed in 1933.

For the Yuengling brand, the Obama bet is welcome free advertising.

“When you stick around for 180 years,” Yuengling said, “you deserve something for nothing.”

The parameters of the bet were a bit confusing, as some news reports said Obama would be sending Harper a case of Yuengling as a result of losing the bet.

Holden said Obama’s bet _ sending Canadian

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