Gay Beer | Craft Collective

Contents:

• GAY BEER
• BEER IS SO GAY
• OH VALLEY BEER PANY CREAT “EVEN GAYER” LIGHT BEER; SAYS BEER IS FOR EVERYBODY
• GAY BEERLOYAL BRANDS
• WHAT MAK THIS BEER GAY?
• DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?
• THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

GAY BEER

Digned to speak directly and thentilly to diverse nsumers, Gay Beer is tend to pneer change and clivy the beer market. Honorg the rich herage of the LGBTQ+ muni past while regnizg the tegry of the muni prent, Gay Beer celebrat the nnectns ma through sharg a beer wh the people you love.

Brewed wh a choice blend of Vienna Malt and Mandara Hops, Gay Beer is a goln lager wh not of honey and crisp cs that’s sure to satisfy you beer drkers. 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. Instead, buyers will state clearly that they want a Gay Beer.

BEER IS SO GAY

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.

OH VALLEY BEER PANY CREAT “EVEN GAYER” LIGHT BEER; SAYS BEER IS FOR EVERYBODY

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.

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 BEERLOYAL BRANDS

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?

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.

DID BUD LIGHT BEER ACUNT TWEET THAT IT HAT GAYS, TRANS PEOPLE?

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.

Loyal Brands Gay Beer. Y., Gay Beer is currently available select NYC Whole Foods lotns, on the NYC Ferry, as well as onle through TapRm.

THE 10 BEST AMSTERDAM GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS AMSTERDAM

A portn of Gay Beer proceeds go to LGBTQ advocy groups each quarter, Gay Beer tells VePair. Courty of HeekenIn 2014 Heeken lnched a mpaign featurg Neil Patrick Harris, the brand’s first openly gay ambassador. Not only that, but the beer was even brewed wh water om the Stonewall Inn, which birthed the gay rights movement.

Gay Beer.

Courty of Gay BeerGay Beer was found by Jason Pazmo and Jon Moore, two members of the queer muny wh a passn for beer.