Move Over Bud Light, Gay Water Is Here and It's Queer - INTO

Contents:

• ARE PEOPLE REALLY SELLG ‘PRE-GAY BUD LIGHT’? BEER NTROVERSY PH SAL
• CANNED COCKTAIL GAY WATER AIMS TO RIGHT BUD LIGHT'S LACK OF LGBTQ+ SUPPORT
• MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER

ARE PEOPLE REALLY SELLG ‘PRE-GAY BUD LIGHT’? BEER NTROVERSY PH SAL

In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. 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. 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.

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

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.

MOVE OVER BUD LIGHT, GAY WATER IS HERE AND IT’S QUEER

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. As the Bud Light ntroversy blaz on, some angered ctomers are searchg for olr, ridiculoly-dubbed ‘pre-gay’ versns of the giftg transgenr fluencer Dylan Mulvaney wh a personalized beer n celebratg her “365 days of girlhood, ” Bud Light has e unr fire. ‘Pre-Gay Bud Light’ go up for saleSome people have taken upon themselv to sell ns of ‘Pre-Gay Bud Light’ on the lik of eBay and Facebook has spawned a slew of mem about beer lovers huntg for the beverag.

Whout specifilly outlg what a ‘Pre-Gay Bud Light’ uld be, one n assume is a cel jab about the pany’s public support of LGBTQ+ muni.

It is then perceived as a beer produced before all the ntroversy 5 beer pani that support LGBTQ+ muni‘Bids startg at $200’Although there is no difference between the beverag pre- and post-ntroversy, that hasn’t stopped trated ctomers om phg the ia that there is a ‘Pre-Gay Bud Light’ are jokgly lookg to explo those who are termed to get their hands on ‘Pre-Gay Bud Light’.