INSIDER – Garth Brooks raised the ire of some country-music fans after saying that he’d serve “every brand of beer” at his new bar — including Bud Light, which conservatives have criticized for its recent collaboration with the transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Bud Light’s collaboration with Mulvaney led to a widespread boycott of the brand and extravagant shows of force against the beer.
In one case, the MAGA-world favorite Kid Rock filmed himself shooting several cases of the beer to show his disdain for the partnership.
Brooks, one of the best-selling musical artist of all time, told Billboard that he hoped Friends In Low Places, his bar set to open in the South Broadway District of Nashville, Tennessee, would be “the Chick-fil-A of honky-tonks.”
“I want it to be a place you feel safe in, I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another,” he said.
“And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It’s not our decision to make,” Brooks continued, adding that people who disagreed with him could go to “plenty of other spaces on lower Broadway.”
Kid Rock’s Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock ‘n’ Roll Steakhouse, another bar in the same section of lower Broadway, removed Bud Light from its menus in early April — but when Insider looked at the steakhouse’s website in June, the beer was back on the menu.
Brooks’ decision to support the beer has angered some of the country star’s conservative audience. The hashtag #boycottgarthbrooks has more than 30,700 views …
