Gay Water, a new nned cktail, wants to be the anti-Bud Light | CNN Bs

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• GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
• WHAT IS THE GAYT DRK

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

Between the John Waters film, Denver Zoo’s gay celebry uple, and the blow-up Pri party favors, ’s safe to say that the flamgo is a gay in. Ngrs to publicly e out as gay voluntarily AND marry someone of the same sex while office. This cholate vanilla vodka marti is a ky homage to California’s first openly gay elected official and arguably the most famo Amerin LGBT polician: Harvey Milk.

Celebrate one of the most important events leadg to the gay liberatn movement wh whiskey, sweet red vermouth and angostura bters. 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.

WHAT IS THE GAYT DRK

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.