Gay Water, a new nned cktail, wants to be the anti-Bud Light - WTOP News

Contents:

• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
• CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT BEER
• HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY
• MALAYSIA CANCELS MIC FTIVAL FOLLOWG MATT HEALY’S GAY KISSG STUNT
• COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE
• CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

One newly lnched pany is releasg “Gay Water” a rponse to the backlash Bud Light suffered after partnerg wh transgenr TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney. Twelve ns of Gay Water n be purchased onle for a total of $36. The pany also sells “Gay Water” tumblers and tcker hats.

When you really thk about, how many products n you thk about that have ‘gay’ the tle? “gay [sic] water has always been a lloquialism for vodka soda, so surprise, that’s our re product.

However, we see ourselv as a liftyle brand here to brg back the origal fn of the word gay by puttg our products everywhere – your rtrant, your bar, your liquor store, your grocery store, and your home. ” Canned cktail ‘Gay Water’ aims to sh on Bud Light’s Dylan Mulvaney disaster — New York Post (@nypost) July 21, 2023 The pany’s founr, Spencer Hodson, told the New York Post that the backlash Bud Light suffered after s cisn to partner wh Mulvaney spir him to be more unapologetic his pro-LGBT stance. An entreprenr lnched a nned cktail this week lled “Gay Water” that’s aimed at LGBTQ drkers — and said he’s lookg to palize on Bud Light’s mistak.

GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT

But “Gay Water” — which adopts a moniker the gay muny has long given to the simple vodka and soda cktail — has been spired by the dtup to bee even bolr about the dience ’s targetg, founr and CEO Spencer Hodson told The Post. Gay Water — a nned cktail brand that plays on the gay muny’s lloquialism for the vodka-and-soda mixed drk — lnched on Wednday and promis to unrstand s dience better than Bud Light.Spencer Hodson/Instagram.

The 30-year-old Hodson said he is g suggtive — albe playful — msagg and imagery Gay Water’s social media and webse, cludg a provotive nod to the 12-ounce n’s 6.1-ch height.

CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT

“Our missn is to -stigmatize the word ‘gay’ and start to create reprentatn spac that tradnally don’t have queer-owned products, let alone products wh the word ‘gay’ their tle,” Hodson told The Post. “When was the last time you saw the word gay at a rtrant, bar, liquor store, or grocery store?

The word ‘gay’ origally was fed as happy, and we’re hopg to remd folks of that by beg prent,” he add.

CHIGO GAY BARS STOP SELLG BUD LIGHT BEER

Founr Spencer Hodson, a gay man, says the brand is about reclaimg the word “gay” as a word that “jt means happy.”Spencer Hodson/Instagram. Gay Water’s brandg is full of playful, suggtive msagg. “Part of the pot of lnchg outsi of Pri month is to rerce the msage that Gay Water is here to make the LGBTQ+ muny more visible 365 days a year, not jt a sgle month,” he said.

The gay Tiger Kg star and beer giant are not the strangt bedfellows. Budweiser- Try puttg the worlds favore transphobic gay redneck on a n and get back to sellg beer.

HEY BUD LIGHT BOYTTERS, PROTTG BEER IS ACTUALLY REALLY GAY

“Budweiser- Try puttg the world’s favore transphobic gay redneck on a n and get back to sellg beer, ” tweeted Exotic, who is currently servg a 21-year prison sentence for payg to murr wildlife activist Carol Bask. READ NEXTChechen Pop Star Was Tortured and ExecutedWhoopi Goldberg Slams Conservativ over “Barbie” MeltdownsJapane Pop Star Com Out as GayMissouri Sued Over Ban on Genr-Affirmg Care. New York (CNN) — In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

MALAYSIA CANCELS MIC FTIVAL FOLLOWG MATT HEALY’S GAY KISSG STUNT

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them, ” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, ” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

COMPANY GO FULL-ON BUD LIGHT WH ‘GAY WATER’ RELEASE

He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails, ” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns, ” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay, ” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. Available for purchase startg July 20, newly found pany Gay Water is releasg a le of sugarls pre-mixed vodka soda cktails to the adult beverage market.

CANNED CKTAIL ‘GAY WATER’ AIMS TO SH ON BUD LIGHT’S DYLAN MULVANEY DISASTER

"We're creatg a brand that creat reprentatn, particularly spac where reprentatn is lackg like liquor stor, bars, rtrants, and grocery stor, " Gay Water founr Spencer Hodson told CNN. "Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self, " he stated, sirg to remove some harmful nnotatns attached to the phrase. However, Bud Light's quiet rponse to the matter is somethg the owner of Gay Water tends to addrs head-on.

Gay Water's flavors and where to fd them. "Gay is an umbrella term, and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible...

As a rult, spe the appropriatens bee of his onle prence, Gay Water Vodka Soda is maly available for purchase through the pany's webse. Several Chigo-area gay bars have stopped sellg Anhser-Bch products rponse to the beer giant’s attempts to distance self om a marketg mpaign that Bud Light unrtook wh transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney. 2Bears Tavern Group, which owns four gay bars on the cy’s north si — Meetg Hoe Tavern, 2Bears Tavern Uptown, The SoFo Tap, and Jackhammer — posted to Instagram last week that would disntue sal of all Anhser-Bch products, cludg popular beers Bch Light, Bud Light, and Goose Island 312, as first reported by Block Club Chigo.