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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSam Adams brewery boycott gaining steam after Jim Koch praised Trump's tax cuts
Jim Koch's remarks can be seen here:https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-dinner-business-leaders/
One of Sam Adams neighbors is visibly upset:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/08/14/homemade-sign-calls-out-sam-adams-founder-over-trump-dinner/sA9ZRJnTzcnp5qkE51f1NM/story.html
Somerville, MA, Mayor calls the brewer of Sam Adams a complicit profiteer of Trumps white nationalist agenda
https://www.salon.com/2018/08/14/mayor-calls-the-brewer-of-sam-adams-a-complicit-profiteer-of-trumps-white-nationalist-agenda/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/08/14/sam-adams-co-founder-praised-trumps-tax-reform-now-this-mayor-refuses-to-drink-the-beer/?utm_term=.03f1893f77e3
Sam Adams brewery protest after CEO's Trump dinner remarks
http://www.register-herald.com/cnhi_network/sam-adams-brewery-protest-after-ceo-s-trump-dinner-remarks/article_48810ae1-aa76-57e1-b649-391d23e437cc.html
dhill926
(16,339 posts)lots of good local beer all over the country...
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)Your average MAGA knuckle-dragger doesn't drink Sam Adams. Why would any company go out of its way to piss-off customers.
I'm hardly a loyal Sam Adams drinker but I do buy it sometimes - or more importantly, I used to do so.
populistdriven
(5,644 posts)dining with POTUS in a room full of glowing privileged businessmen.
He suffered a momentary lapse of restraint.
TomSlick
(11,098 posts)I'm doing my share. No more of my beer allowance in his fat wallet.
slumcamper
(1,606 posts)dhol82
(9,353 posts)Pity, beer and dogs go well together.
As an FYI, the ceo Of Nathans is having a trump fundraiser in the Hamptons shortly.
Ptui!
populistdriven
(5,644 posts)TeamPooka
(24,228 posts)thank you for letting me know about his support for Trump
No more Sam Adams and nathans for me.
procon
(15,805 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Freethinker65
(10,023 posts)oasis
(49,389 posts)CanonRay
(14,104 posts)Destroys a brand. Join the club with Papa Johns
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)May Sam Adams piss water beer go the way of papa johns rancid pizza.
The official food and drink of Nazi/kkk POS only!
keithbvadu2
(36,819 posts)The Daily Stormer posted a picture of a swastika pizza after the CEO of official NFL sponsor Papa Johns blamed his companys recent losses on players kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality.
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Harker
(14,020 posts)Indictments, that is. Cool and refreshing.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Harker
(14,020 posts)I couldn't quite get "sham, pain, and embattled" working for me, so I bailed out.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Harker
(14,020 posts)I'm very happy to be here.
populistdriven
(5,644 posts)populistdriven
(5,644 posts)Harker
(14,020 posts)but I'll likely hold off on a tattoo at least until that frosty mug of justice comes sliding down the bar.
Thanks!
Red Raider 85
(102 posts)Told them I am boycotting their beer and Trump and Koch are traitors. Fuck that brewery. Its dead to me.
certainot
(9,090 posts)all those business owners need to decide whether they want to support trump by advertising on radio stations that support and make excuses for trump, or not.
they need to be pushed to have to confront and declare their support for rw talk radio, or not.
if not, they need to pull their adds from republican talk radio
dalton99a
(81,514 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Biden My Time
(87 posts)I honestly don't know why ANYBODY drinks that shit!
Hangdog Slim
(81 posts)I stopped drinking Yuengling beer, a beverage I have enjoyed for many years. It's a local brewery for me here in the Lehigh Valley PA. CEO Dick Yuengling supported Trump during the election - and yes Pottsville, PA where the brewery is located is Trump country. But be that as it may, I refuse to drink that beer ever again. And not a fan of Sam Adams frankly so no great loss but it could be sweet ambrosia and I wouldn't touch it again
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Like drinking a roast beef dinner. Blech.
populistdriven
(5,644 posts)yuengling is as bad or worse
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)Amazing how so many once-small business folks change from nice and humble to greedy bastards after they reach a certain level of wealth and power. It happens almost every time and a sad note for the human condition.
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elmac
(4,642 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)I drink Equilibrium Brewery, or I drink nothing at all.
Omaha Steve
(99,656 posts)exboyfil
(17,863 posts)Here are some other brands his company produces.
Overall revenue for Boston Beer was up, but that was more due to the success of the company's non-beer brands, such as the Truly Spiked & Sparkling seltzer, Twisted Tea and Angry Orchard cider.
bdtrppr6
(796 posts)and I live in PDX. you can't swing a dead cat without hitting another brewery. if those would all close and I had a choice of no beer at all or Sam Adams, i would be sober for the first time in 35 years.
well, except for the weed.
populistdriven
(5,644 posts)denbot
(9,900 posts)After a bite Alley and I Ubered to OConners Saloon for a drink. They only had Wild Turkey, or Jamesons whiskey which is Alleys fallback (shes an inveterate Bourbon/Whiskey neat girl), Im a beer kind of guy.
They had one stout, the ubiquitous Guinness Stout, which is my desperation ten minutes before the world ends fall back, and the only craft beer available was Sam Adams.
I declined, and went with a Newcastle Nut Brown Ale. Not a sacrifice, I know, New Castle is a solid Ale, but I also know Ill drink a fucking Budweiser, water, or anything other than a
Treasonous Sam Adams from now on.