Obama the Beer Named After an American President

The guys at SABMILLER out consider introducing Nile Special to latitude 5 degrees North and 5 degrees South and beyond. Fashioned as Uganda's International Award winner that "you deserve", Nile Special made from malted barley, hops, maize and waters from the source of the river Nile; is the illegitimate child of Tusker TM and Pilsener TM that was brought up by Guinness TM.

Not Nile Special, but Senator Lager. Another popular East African beer

Image Trivia: Senator Lager borrowed it's name from the pride of East African people on the rise to global acclaim of a son they claimed their own: Barack Obama. Then a junior senator in America, his pilgrimage to western Kenya to a hitherto unknown village, Kogelo, to reconnect with his paternal roots, the man who was to be America's 44th president and the first of Afro-American roots, not only had new born babies and matatus named after him but also beer.

Senator TM and it's cousin President TM ( named so after he rose to the highest political office on earth) embodied the promise and essence man himself. Made from sorghum, it symbolized the humble beginnings resonating with the suffering but hopeful and ambitious African populace just as much as his message of hope that brings about change resonated with the American voter disillusioned and in search of the American dream, having seen the influence of their land waning following a geopolitical approach characterized by war. PR damaging wars like the Iraq war that eroded America's moral standing.

The image shows the bottled version of Senator. according to Amina, a bartender at the infamous Nabuyole party capital in the Ugandan end of the Busia border town, was in existence way before the more common Keg only version that took the Kenyan (Obama's paternal home) market by storm.