Interview by Chip Dykstra Published May 29, 2017 I would like to wele Allen Smh, Master Blenr at Mount Gay Rum Distillery to my webse. I was offered an opportuny to sample his newt creatn, the Mount Gay 1703 Old Cask Selectn (see review here) and to follow up my tastg ssns wh an terview…
Contents:
- SCHMT'S GAY BEER
- BEER IS SO GAY
- SNL CLASSIC SK - SCHMTS GAY BEER
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
- WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
- ALEXIS ARQUETTE CLAIMS WILL AND JADA PKETT SMH ARE GAY
- GAY BEER
- BEFORE THE OSR, BEFORE THE SLAP: WILL SMH ONCE GOT VERY GAY
- BIG GAY IPA
- INTERVIEW WH ALLEN SMH: MASTER BLENR – MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY
SCHMT'S GAY BEER
A new group of beer pani and breweri like Gay Beer and Queer Brewg are supportg LGBTQ+ muni while rvg out space the beer world for queerns * smith gay beer *
Ask what mak a gay bar gay and the answers will vary. What you’ll rarely hear, though, is that a gay bar is a gay bar bee of the drks. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are among the emergg group of beer producers that are centerg queer inty and queer muny, whether by highlightg queer brewers, donatg some profs to queer chari, or creatg queer third spac — munal spac distct om home and work — at a time when they’re disappearg.
BEER IS SO GAY
Lnchg Thursday is a brightly lored nned vodka and soda beverage lled Gay Water that proudly displays who ’s for, stead of backg off om support for the LGBTQ+ muny like Bud Light did. * smith gay beer *
Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer. Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Pazmo, bs partners and boyiends, 2017.
The pair were spired while drkg at Juli’, a historic gay bar New York Cy that was the se of early “sip-” protts, where gay men would drk at bars that refed to serve homosexuals. Together, they were tryg to figure out why there wasn’t already a beer posned more for queer people, which led Moore and Pazmo to realize that gay beer was a project they uld take on themselv themselv.
But of urse, had to be gay. Consumptn of Gay Beer, they cid, would be herently tied to supportg the queer muny.
SNL CLASSIC SK - SCHMTS GAY BEER
It’s a simple proposn: A craft beer, owned by a gay uple and marketed to the LGBT muny. * smith gay beer *
They began llg Gay Beer while velopg the product and jt stuck. Growg up, they’d both heard “gay” ed as an sult or to scribe somethg pejoratively, so llg their beer Gay Beer was also a reclamatn.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
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Moore and Pazmo note that “gay” also means “happy, ” a nnotatn hasn’t really held s, but still gets ed as a cheeky way to eli the haters.
(Big Gay Ice Cream has ed the same tactic. “A lot of bars are not wantg to say they’re lbian bars, they’re wantg to say they’re queer bars — but a lot of gay male bars keep sayg they’re gay male bars, ” she says. From a sign standpot, Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg all wanted to reference the cultur they grew om.
WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
Gay Beer partners wh Craft Beer Distributor Craft Collective to distribute Gay Beer. * smith gay beer *
For Moore and Pazmo, that meant an “Amerina whout the Amerin flag” sign, somethg that reflected the athetics of Juli’ Bar, and the gay men of the ’60s who participated the “sip ” protts. Gay Beer, Dyke Beer, and Queer Brewg are n by queer people and support queer people year-round. Buyg Gay Beer at the grocery store signals to everyone who se you that you’re the kd of person who buys Gay Beer.
Gay Beer may be explicly queer, but “gay” still feel more fortable on the tongue to a non-queer person than “dyke” or “queer. Meanwhile, Gay Beer will soon be available 32 stat through e-merce.
A brand like Gay Beer gets to be the Trojan horse of the queer beer agenda. Wae says, “Many were pleased to see the lnch of somethg actively tryg to make change wh a stagnant and homogeno dtry, and queer and trans folk were pleased to see somethg that reprented them a way that hadn’t been done before. New York (CNN) — In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.
ALEXIS ARQUETTE CLAIMS WILL AND JADA PKETT SMH ARE GAY
Gay Smh is an artist at Piedmont Craftsmen. Vis our webse to learn more and view imag of her work. * smith gay beer *
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.
GAY BEER
On Sam Smh’s “Barbie” soundtrack song “Man I Am,” the performer sgs about a Ken who’s “not gay, bro,” but has “been on that lay low.” So, a Bicur Ken? * smith gay beer *
“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. 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.
BEFORE THE OSR, BEFORE THE SLAP: WILL SMH ONCE GOT VERY GAY
Big Gay IPA by Goldspot Brewg Company is a IPA - Amerin which has a ratg of 3.8 out of 5, wh 95 ratgs and reviews on Untappd. * smith gay beer *
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. Gay Beer was created by Jon Moore and Jason Beer. It’s lled Gay Beer.
“Is this gog to make me gay? “It don’t make you gay, mak you a better person, ” -founr Jason Pazmo quips.
BIG GAY IPA
Gay Beer me about bee the partners saw a lack of brands directly marketg to their muny, outsi of once-a-year Gay Pri stts. “We thought of llg Gay Beer and not beg ashamed about .
”Gay Beer was created to be clive and speak to the LGBTQ muny.
Gay Beer. The beer’s name, while lighthearted, also taps to society’s gay panic, and fear of otherns.
INTERVIEW WH ALLEN SMH: MASTER BLENR – MOUNT GAY RUM DISTILLERY
“I thought was an opportuny to take the word back and show there is no fear the word ‘gay’, ” Pazmo says. Given that Gay Beer nods to s muny, s missn mandat quarterly donatns to LGBTQ anizatns. Last month, Gay Beer held a fundraiser beneftg Marsha’s Hoe, an LGBTQ youth shelter the Bronx.