Obama Beer?

Posted by Wink

February 21, 2008

[digg=http://digg.com/url_to/story_on_digg] Obamamania is so out of hand. He’s quickly becoming the first presidential candidate to have a serious merchandising appeal. There is already a booming micro-industry of Obama bobble heads, t-shirts and coffee mugs. Before long big companies will start catching on. We might even get Obama-beer!!! Wait! It already exists … in Kenya. According to the BBC:

… one brewery, East African Breweries Limited (EABL), spotted a market opportunity for a cheap beer that is also safe. The result: Senator Keg beer, known simply by drinkers as “Obama”. The beer became an instant hit when it was launched in 2004 at about the same time as Barack Obama was elected as senator of Illino