Barack Obama

Exclusive: top ale writer says beware of complacency in market

26-Nov-2010 By Ewan Turney

Beware of complacency — that was the message delivered by Pete Brown, author of The Cask Report, at last week's SIBA conference.

Jeremy Beadles: Off-trade is not the enemy

23-Sep-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

Cast your minds back to January 2009. Barack Obama was inaugurated into the White House and the Icelandic banking system had just fallen off a cliff....

Obama and Cameron debate beer temperature

21-Jul-2010 By Ewan Turney

Barack Obama has praised the Hobgoblin beer given to him by David Cameron as "excellent". The Prime Minister and US President swapped beers at the...

'Waitrose targets former pubs for convenience'

21-Jul-2010 By Matt Eley Matt

Your former local pub could soon become a Waitrose after the grocer unveiled aggressive plans yesterday to open 300 convenience stores in the next 10...

Special relationship cemented over Hobgoblin

28-Jun-2010 By John Harrington

The special relationship between Britain and the US has been cemented over bottles of English ale Hobgoblin. David Cameron and Barack Obama swapped...

'Binge drinking sends high blood pressure cases soaring by 74%'

28-Jun-2010

Britain's booze culture has led to a huge increase in patients needing treatment for high blood pressure. The number of adults diagnosed with raised...

'Evacuation after fire at Greene King brewery'

30-Jul-2009

Staff at Suffolk's biggest brewery were evacuated yesterday following a severe fire in a boiler room. Fire crews were called to the Greene King...

Like Obama, we are at the start of a long fight

29-Jan-2009 By David Elliott

The industry is in for a long battle, says Greene King Pub Partners managing director David Elliott.

Minor should mean minor

29-Jan-2009 By Peter Coulson

The proposal to make it easier to get a condition knocked off a licence arouses suspicion, says Peter Coulson.

Good news, bad news and a little bit of hope

26-Jan-2009 By Hamish Champ

I had lunch with an old 'Fleet Street' journalist friend last Tuesday at a Wetherspoons pub located slap bang twixt our respective offices.The place...

Adam Withrington: What can the pub industry learn from Barack Obama?

11-Nov-2008

What is about Barack Obama that enthuses us all so much? His victory last week has seen an outpouring of optimism many of us can scarcely believe....

'Africa toasts Obama with pints of Senator beer'

05-Nov-2008 By Matt Eley Matt

Kenyans in Barack Obama's ancestral homeland prayed for victory yesterday. Election fever swept the country as babies were named Obama, pints of...