Budweiser For Beards

Via press release from Budweiser:

Budweiser is asking adult men across America to help save one million gallons of water by not shaving in the days and weeks leading up to World Environment Day (June 5). As part of Budweiser's ongoing commitment to water conservation, the Grow One. Save a Million. program allows consumers to get involved and save roughly 5 gallons of water for each shave they skip. Consumers 21 years of age and older can visit Budweiser's Facebook page to make a pledge and share the program with Facebook friends. Participants can commit to a range of options, from a few days to multiple weeks. Ladies can get involved by recruiting male friends or family members. The page also features a daily tracker of the gallons saved to date.

Viagra Beer

In honor of this week's royal wedding: "Created by the Scotland-based BrewDog Brewery, 'Royal Virility Performance' ale is laced with herbal Viagra, chocolate, goat weed and 'a healthy dose of sarcasm,' the company’s website says. Drinking three bottles of the potent brew is supposed to be the equivalent of swallowing one Viagra pill."

CALIFORNIA: Beer Sellers Oppose Marijuana Legalization Bill

A coalition of beer distributors is opposing California's Proposition 19, the attempt to legalize and tax the sale of marijuana.

On Sept. 7, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors gave $10,000 to a committee opposing Proposition 19, the measure that would change state law to legalize pot and allow it to be taxed and regulated. The California Police Chiefs Association has given the most to the Proposition 19 opposition with a contribution of $30,000, according to Cal-Access, a website operated by the secretary of state’s office. Rhonda Stevenson, the California Beer & Beverage Distributors political action committee’s coordinator, was out of the office on Wednesday. Nobody else from the group was available to comment. “Unless the beer distributors in California have suddenly developed a philosophical opposition to the use of intoxicating substances, the motivation behind this contribution is clear,” Steve Fox, director of government relations for the Marijuana Policy Project, said in statement. “Plain and simple, the alcohol industry is trying to kill the competition. Their mission is to drive people to drink.”

Some beer manufacturers have disavowed their own distributors. Sierra Nevada has demanded that their name be removed from the membership list of the above-cited group.

Beer Numbers

(Via - Andrew Sullivan)

Miller Lite Ads: You Are A Cross-Dressing Sissy If You Don't Drink Our Brand

Queers United points us to the below ads from Miller Lite which mock men as skirt-wearing, purse-carrying sissies if they don't "man up" and drink their brand. Transphobia? Homophobia? Funny? Queers United suggests contacting the company to express your displeasure.

Aftertaste

Watch until the end.

(Tipped by JMG reader JM)