Posted on 04/06/2023 8:36:59 AM PDT by lowbridge
Country music legend Travis Tritt announced Wednesday that he is dropping all Anheuser-Busch products from his tour.
"I will be deleting all Anheuser-Busch products from my tour hospitality rider. I know many other artists who are doing the same," Tritt revealed on Twitter.
According to Tritt, other country music artists are taking the same action as he is, but they aren't announcing it publicly "for fear of being ridiculed and cancelled." But Tritt declared, "I have no such fear."
Tritt even offered a suggestion as to why Anheuser-Busch felt it was a good idea to sponsor Mulvaney: because the company is now owned by a European company.
"In full disclosure, I was on a tour sponsored by Budweiser in the 90’s. That was when Anheuser-Busch was American owned," he said. "A great American company that later sold out to the Europeans and became unrecognizable to the American consumer. Such a shame."
The announcement comes after Bud Light sponsored trans activist Dylan Mulvaney, igniting a firestorm of controversy resulting in a mass boycott of Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch. The company not only sponsored Mulvaney, but celebrated his gender transition with custom packs of beer to mark his "365 Days of Girlhood."
The company that owns Bud Light is officially known as Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV; it is based in Belgium. The company boasts more than 600 beer brands in its portfolio across 150 countries. Anheuser-Busch was purchased by InBev in 2008.
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Its not so much european as it is GLOBALIST
I was thinking the same thing. Was not a Tritt fan previously, and really not at all into what they call country these days (more of a Hank Williams and Johnny Cash guy myself) but I might buy a CD now.
Only took us 15 years to know aBusch was no longer American?
Meanwhile they do Americana public commercials to super bowl audiences, baseball games, etc...all phony, heartwarming, images to sell beer to Americans.
Miller beers are owned by a Canadian-American conglomerate. First incorporated in Delaware and Montreal. Molson-Coors is the name. However, its business history is long and convoluted and was once part of the aBusch-inBev conglomerate before being spun off.
Other than Clydesdales and maybe the St. Louis Cardinals playing at Busch stadium I never really thought much about AB. They were and maybe still are the number 1 beer company in the US. For a long time it was unavailable in Canada but that ended many years ago now and is available at least the Canadianized version of Bud. I never used any of the products of AB so a boycott ain’t happening with me just continued non use. Ben and Jerrys is in a similar way. When it comes to beer there are alternatives as has been noted by others here.
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds, and shekels.
It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today!
Arthur Jensen from Network - 1976
Indeed. I don’t drink Budweiser but they were an American icon.
One of the greatest scenes in movie history, and even more relevant today.
Not much of a drinker.
If I need one, Iwill have a bottled coors.
If it was good enough for Howard Linscott, it should be good enough for anyone.
If you don’t know Howard, he was featured in documentary Loosing the West.
Once rode a horse thru the New Sheridan bar in Telluride in the 70’s.
Transheuser-Busch
Indeed, profound. Meanwhile these huge companies promote their folksy, hip, patriotic or woke images in order to sell their products. Go to your own tents and do it yourself.
My man...Travis. He’s a Little Rough Around the Edges but he is the Real Deal. Best concert I ever attended...and I’ve seen all the big acts.
Ooooh!!! I love it and will add it to my list!
Thank you!
I spent some time in Ireland. Me mates there call it "Buttwidener".
Transheuser-Busch
Queer Beer
The Queer of Beers
Tranny Fluid
Sorry to hear that. Breweries in central PA are far from the soy boi scene. There was one that bordered on that, but they went out of business last year.. You could try Yuengling beer. They were boycotted because of their owner’s endorsement of Trump. They are America’s oldest brewery and family owned. They have been available nationally for the last 20 years or so.
It’s my go to beer at dive bars in PA that don’t have a wide selection of beer. Yuengling is headquartered in Pottstown, PA so it’s in just about every bar and store around here. I’d be suspicious of a bar not serving it around here. It’s better than any Anheuser-Busch product, but not some fancy brand, just a basic blue collar beer. You would order it PA, just by saying, “I’ll have a lager.” Although, I prefer beers other than lager depending on the time of the year.
The petulant, spoiled heirs of Busch sold out to Inbev. The petulant, spoiled heirs of McDonnell Douglas did the same. The two greatest assets and traditions of St. Louis were eliminated. Heirs seldom recognize the hard work and sacrifices of their own family but they sure recognize the ‘cash’ value when those family members die. Can’t wait to line their own pockets with the money and the hell with the employees and traditions. It’s disgusting.
Saw Travis in Troy, OH on March 30. Money well spent, I say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFbY_Oprdw
Outlaws and Outsiders
You might like this one.
Travis, Cory Marks, Ivan Moody, and Mick Mars)
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