Great episode! Much positive to say, but positive stuff isnt interesting. Pink washing? I say rubbish. If its that offensive that some brewery is trying to market beer for girly girls, let that brewery's customers deal with it. But what if it isn't? What if he sells more beer, to more people, because he (or she...) happens to reach some females who embrace their girliness? Is there going to be footage of protesters lined up outside his pub? There's already enough of this etiquette policing to go around, lets let private businesses suceed or fail based on their actual customer responses rather than always seeking out some new societal wrong to right. By the way I am a manly man beer drinker who occasion identifies as a girly beer drinker, so don't be to intolerant of my thoughts. I'm still figuring it out.
I agree with you on this Jim.
Wheeeeeeee! That makes two of us.
Ignore me, im at the bottom of a magnum of Elevation-False Summit. Freeby 11% barrel aged quad I brought home from Best of Craft. Long story...
Anecdote: We, the wife and I, went to the Bend Beerfest last summer. Butt load of beers... one was Hell or High Watermelon. Clearly a girly girl beer, marketed as a manly man beer. Hadn't tried it so I stumbled over there. The line was 5 wide and 20 yards long, all chicks. Hot chicks! But, like, my daughter, like, aged chicks. I, like, felt, like, an out of place grandpa. Grabbed, like, our samples and hauled ass... sip, meh. Whatever, decent beer, nothing to write home about. What does that prove? Mmmmmmaybe that chicks see "watermelon" and come running, and dudes ignore "hell" because it also says watermelon. Maybe? Maybe not