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World awaits Obamaâ€™s choice in high profile beer sitdown

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

U.S. President Barack Obama, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley plan to sit down for a beer on Thursday.
The three men, surrounded by their families, will raise their glasses at the picnic table outside the Oval Office, weather permitting, CBS reports.
Asked if there would be pretzel or [...]

Harry Smith: Just a Minute: Beer Profiling

July 29th, 2009 | No Comments

As the big summit meeting at the White House draws closer, I’m wondering what we can learn from the beer preferences of Henry Louis Gates and James Crowley.

Mason Tvert: Obama: Stop Driving Americans – and White House Guests – To Drink

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Just after President Obama’s top drug policy official told the country that marijuana is “dangerous,” the President himself was touting the enjoyable effects of alcohol.

Beer Metaphor Becomes Frosty-Cold Reality

July 28th, 2009 | No Comments

There’s a relatively recent political metaphor that is about to become a reality, and become etched in the history books much like the ring left…

Arianna Huffington: Sunday Roundup

July 26th, 2009 | No Comments

This week, Barack Obama made the mistake of speaking out on Gatesgate before he had all the facts. On national TV. Which is a shame because his larger point — that there is still much work to be done when it comes to racial discrepancies in our justice system — has gotten lost in the back and forth about the stupidity of his use of “stupidly.” He’s tried to make it right with an offer to work things out over a beer at the White House with Officer Crowley and Professor Gates. This has the rare chance to turn into both a teachable moment and a great beer commercial. “Tastes great, less jail filling.” But he needs to pick his brew carefully. An import will drive Lou Dobbs crazy. And if he picks a dark beer, we’ll get a week’s worth of stories on Fox.

Obama invites professor and sergeant for beer to end racial row

July 25th, 2009 | No Comments

In a bid to diffuse the controversial racial row following his remark in the arrest of a Black Harvard professor, US President Barack Obama has telephoned and invited the White Sergeant and the professor to the White House for a beer.
â€œMy impression of him was that he was an outstanding police -officer and a [...]

Mark Joseph: Nice Try Mr. President; Hold The Beer & Get The Tape

July 25th, 2009 | No Comments

So, President Obama wants the Prof and the Cop to come to the White House, have a beer and make nice? Not so fast. One…

Jacob Heilbrunn: Whatever Works: Obama, Gates, and Crowley

July 24th, 2009 | No Comments

Now that he’s reverted to his conciliator mode by inviting Gates and Crowley over for a brew, Obama is playing to his strength. For the American beer industry this could be a great moment.

Closing time

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Why are Britain’s pubs shutting?

A PINT of beer down the local is a quintessential part of British culture. But in recent years many Britons have changed their drinking habits, shunning the pub and preferring to imbibe at home instead. Now over 50 pubs are closing every week, almost double the rate of a year ago, says the British Beer & Pub Association, a trade group. The recession, cheap alcohol at supermakets, and a smoking ban in pubs enacted in 2007 are all to blame. The government is also taking a bigger chunk in tax: from around 8p a pint in 1980 to nearly 38p now. Local boozers face the biggest struggle, because they are least likely to offer profitable food, coffee and the like. Meanwhile, chain pubs and cafe-bars are opening at a rate of two a week.

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Obama seems to have eclectic tastes when it comes to choice of drinks

July 18th, 2009 | No Comments

Unlike some of his predecessors, U.S. President Barack Obama has appears to have eclectic tastes, when it comes to the choice of drinks.
While Franklin D. Roosevelt had a thing for martinis, Richard Nixon loved Chateau Margaux and Lyndon Johnson preferred scotch, Obama choices are varied.
Rather than sticking to one signature drink, he has been [...]

A behemoth is brewing

July 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Two of Japan’s biggest beverage companies plan to create a global giant

BEER is serious business in Japan. When employees of Mitsubishi Corporation, a huge trading house, go on a beer binge they are (informally) required to quaff Kirin—a company under Mitsubishi’s wing. Similarly, parties at Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group serve only Asahi, a big client of the bank. Corporate Japan teems with these ties, which makes striking new alliances or mergers hard.

But not too hard when there is an absolute necessity. On Tuesday July 14th Kirin and Suntory, two of Japan’s biggest beer and beverage companies, announced they were in merger discussions. The mere fact that they are in talks promises to shake up not only the international drinks market, but corporate Japan too. …