Hypocrisy on display in private sector.

[MtnMan]

A local brewer for Wicked Weed Brewing, which sold out to Anheuser-Busch InBev years ago, was fired for posting on his personal social media that Charlie Kirk was not a nice person.

Anheuser-Busch fired a brewer for posting about Charlie Kirk

At the macrobrewer's non-union Wicked Weed subsidiary, a hard lesson on labor vulnerability under Trump

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ABI stated this "celebrated violence" and he was fired immediately.

Now surely ABI (Anheuser-Busch) would not celebrate violence... or would they?



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[esquared]

That's seriously fucked up. Nothing in his post "celebrated violence"

Most likely, some asshat MAGArat that knew him and where he worked decided to be a ratfink.
May Karma come back to bite that person's fat ass.

 

[DaaQ]

FUCK Anheuser Bush and all their shitty drinks.

 

[iRONic]

Before I went GF I used to drink delicious Stella Artois beer. InBev bought them and I stopped immediately!

 

[MtnMan]

My original boycott of Wicked Weed was not political, but the fact that a craft brewer sold out to a corporate swamp water producer. Craft beer is a big deal here, and my small city has more breweries per capita than just about anywhere. Even New Belgium built a huge brewery here, with Sierra Nevada and Oskar Blues just across the county line.

Now it's a political boycott.

 

[hal2kilo]

My original boycott of Wicked Weed was not political, but the fact that a craft brewer sold out to a corporate swamp water producer. Craft beer is a big deal here, and my small city has more breweries per capita than just about anywhere. Even New Belgium built a huge brewery here, with Sierra Nevada and Oskar Blues just across the county line.

Now it's a political boycott.

Hell, Anheuser Busch destroyed several micro breweries in the Seattle area by taking them over. Remember Redhook?

 

[nakedfrog]

Hell, Anheuser Busch destroyed several micro breweries in the Seattle area by taking them over. Remember Redhook?

Elysian too.

 

[MtnMan]

Elysian too.

Used to love their "Space Dust"

 

[nakedfrog]

Used to love their "Space Dust"

It's still made, but the Seattle brewery was shut down when they tried to unionize.
I have one bottle left of their barrel-aged barleywine, Cyclops.

 

[MtnMan]

Hell, Anheuser Busch destroyed several micro breweries in the Seattle area by taking them over. Remember Redhook?

Yep.

Locally we have a unicorn, a brewery that was probably swayed by the size of the check, but after 6 months realized they screwed up, and they were able to resurrect themselves from ABI and returned to local ownership. They are Appalachian Mountain Brewery in Boone, NC, and have since opened a second location in Mills River, NC, only a few miles from the Sierra Nevada Brewery.

 

[nOOky]

The company I work for is conservative owned, but the policy is they give a shit about your social media unless you disparage the company or represent the company in a way they don't like. I never, ever post about my workplace on social media or elsewhere, to do so would be stupid. I feel bad for those that don't have that type of policy.

 

[MtnMan]

It's still made, but the Seattle brewery was shut down when they tried to unionize.
I have one bottle left of their barrel-aged barleywine, Cyclops.

I see it on tap, and in the grocery stores, I just don't buy it.

Corporate money is not conducive to craft beer. Nearby, two brothers started a brewery in 1999, and grew it slowly to the point they had 7 locations, and had great beer. We met them years ago and became friends. He was turning 65 and ready to retire and enjoy the proceeds of what he and his brother had built.

Sold to another company called Made By the Water, telling the owners they would leave everything in place, brewing, tasting rooms, staff, etc. Then promptly started closing location after location, and finally walked into the main brewing facility, told everyone to get out and locked the doors, as they were going to brew everything in Louisiana.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Well . . I was just browsing this thread, forgetting that I'd planned to pull a Modelo from the fridge in the garage. Now I'm reminded.

I owe it to myself. I shall retrieve two of them . . .

 

[BoomerD]

Well . . I was just browsing this thread, forgetting that I'd planned to pull a Modelo from the fridge in the garage. Now I'm reminded.

I owe it to myself. I shall retrieve two of them . . .

I like Modelo Especial. It's perhaps my favorite beer.

 

[BoomerD]

As a kid growing up in Washington state, the beers most readily available were:
Lucky Lager
Olympia
Rainier
PBR
Stroh's
Schlitz
Hamms
Schmidt (pure piss water)
later, Coors.

Most of those are long gone...or were bought by some corporate beer company and the product is nothing like the original.

 

[DaaQ]

Well I have to say, I prefer Crown Royal Black. Our area recently got "flooded" if you want to say that. With Crown Royal Chocolate. OMG it is so good straight, on rocks, warm, A&W even coke or DR P. I had to draw the line at Creme Soda, too sweet.

Bought up all the Black from closest place. Found out the 2 ppl in the other place had a wager on what I was going to pick. MM or CR Black. I gave the loser the consolation prize of a bottle that came in the MM package.
I will buy all their CR black. That particular place has the Chocolate 10 bucks too high, so I will empty the other store first of the Chocolate Royal. It isn't weak like the vanilla or blackberry, it is 70 proof.

I just hope Canada does not stop importing to US. would be tragic. The Choco is the only one I have ever had taste great warm cold or mixed.

 

[hal2kilo]

I see it on tap, and in the grocery stores, I just don't buy it.

Corporate money is not conducive to craft beer. Nearby, two brothers started a brewery in 1999, and grew it slowly to the point they had 7 locations, and had great beer. We met them years ago and became friends. He was turning 65 and ready to retire and enjoy the proceeds of what he and his brother had built.

Sold to another company called Made By the Water, telling the owners they would leave everything in place, brewing, tasting rooms, staff, etc. Then promptly started closing location after location, and finally walked into the main brewing facility, told everyone to get out and locked the doors, as they were going to brew everything in Louisiana.

Sounds like what happened to the Bangor Sub base when the Puget Sound shipyard took it over. Swore on a bible that Strategic Projects procedures would not be superseded by their rules. That lasted about 2 years, and my life was made miserable until I finally retired. Let's just say. they love paperwork for everything, and trashed the place with lay down areas all over the base.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

As a kid growing up in Washington state, the beers most readily available were:
Lucky Lager
Olympia
Rainier
PBR
Stroh's
Schlitz
Hamms
Schmidt (pure piss water)
later, Coors.

Most of those are long gone...or were bought by some corporate beer company and the product is nothing like the original.

I remember them

 

[nakedfrog]

There's a bar near me that has a special for eight bucks where you get a glass of decent whiskey and a Hamm's (or a Rainier). They call it the Hamm Job.

 

[hal2kilo]

There's a bar near me that has a special for eight bucks where you get a glass of decent whiskey and a Hamm's (or a Rainier). They call it the Hamm Job.

Reminds me of a bar that was just on the way home from the EL station to my apartment in Chicago. A little old lady, I mean absolutely like the stereotype in a movie, sits down at the bar, and proceeds to down about 4 boiler makers in a row. Then get's up and leaves. Everyone was like, that's not even close to what they were expecting.