More than one-third of small-town bars surveyed in Wyoming are experiencing Bud Light boycotts

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 16, 2023 | Sophie Mann

[Morgana]

A Wyoming news site claims more than a third of the small-town bars they surveyed are experiencing boycotts of Bud Light beer following the company's ad partnership with trans influencer, Dylan Mulvaney.

After finding bars throughout larger Wyoming towns were not experiencing a drop off in Bud Light business, the Cowboy State Daily decided to go deeper and consult 14 bars in small towns.

Their findings showed that out of 12 bars that responded, five had seen changes in the amount of customers buying Bud Light ranging from barely discernible to very severe.

'Two of the 14 declined to comment. Seven of the 12 that commented said they’ve seen no noticeable change in Bud Light sales since the controversy began. The remaining five reported changes from barely discernible to very severe,' the report reads.

It comes as Bud Light's parent company Anheuser-Busch lost a whopping $6billion in market cap in just six days last week in the wake of its partnership with Mulvaney, who promoted the brand by posing with her personalized can of beer in a bathtub on TikTok on April 1.

K Bar Saloon in Powell, Wyoming said that their sales of the Anheuser-Busch owned beer have gone down.

'The beer was once the bar’s top seller and now it’s down to No. 2. Many customers have switched to Coors Light,' read the report.

The Turf Bar in Sundance, Wyoming reported that customers did pivot away from Bud Light, but stayed within the Anheuser-Busch family with their new selections.

'I've noticed a lot of people don't realize Corona and Michelob Ultra are made by Anheuser-Busch,' said one bartender.

The Lucky 5 Lounge in Shoshoni said that 'multiple customers have switched, but Bud Light is still selling.'

[joshua c]

could they have been cherry picked?

[South Dakota]

In Wyoming...the cowboys just want to fight anyway

[Organic Panic]

Thanks for the list. The only beer I use to drink of theirs was 10 Barrell but that was before AB bought them from their brewpub. Once they sold there were a bunch of people that boycotted the pub and went back to Descutes on the other side of town. Not sure what’s going on in that city anymore since I left during a massive infestation of californicators

[SaveFerris]

Who knew that would be prophetic in a really bad way

[Vigilanteman]

Probably the dozen that Sophie Mann frequents or one of her journalism "friends."

True story: I started majoring in journalism in college. Most of my colleagues on the campus newspaper interviewed each other or people in their circle of acquaintances for stories.

I actually interviewed people in the community such as the mayor and a prominent banker. Partly, it was due to the fact that I worked in the community and commuted to campus. Mostly, I think, it was because I wasn't a liberal and lazy by nature.

Long story short, was that while I got good grades from the professors and was even quoted in the local papers in my stories, I was not popular with my colleagues. By my junior year, I knew I would either end up taking some kind of marginal job or major is something serious and marketable. I chose door #2, but I got a real good look at the kind of people who choose door #1.