New Mexican-U.S. beer mocks Trump as frowning mariachi

[riversedge]

Source: reuters





Thu Jun 15, 2017 | 1:58pm EDT

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The label of the new Amigous Cerveza craft beer, showing a frowning Trump in a sombrero, his trousers held up with a swastika belt buckle, mocks his divisive campaign rhetoric against Mexico and his pledge to build a border wall.



A bottle of beer named 'Amigous,' with an image of U.S. President Donald Trump, is pictured at the Cru Cru brewery in Mexico City, Mexico, June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso

The rear label declares that the 71-year-old New Yorker belongs "in a mad house, not the White House."

"We knew that a Trump label was going to be controversial, but it's been selling extremely fast," said Luis Enrique de la Reguera, chief executive of brewery Casa Cervecera Cru Cru.

Launched in May, the beer that misspells "amigo" to poke fun at a bad American pronunciation of the Spanish word for friend, surprised its creators. The original batch of 1,200 bottles and 400 liters on tap sold out in the very first week.................

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-mexico-trump-beer-idUSKBN195355?feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&feedType=RSS

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I do like a pale-ale brew.



Donald Trump Mocked as a Swastika-Belted Mariachi on Mexican Craft Beer Label

http://www.newsweek.com/mexican-breweries-mock-donald-trump-mariachi-swastika-new-craft-beer-625891


By Reuters On 6/15/17 at 4:19 AM


Mexican and U.S. brewers have reinvented Donald Trump as a gun-slinging mariachi to promote a new beer celebrating cross-border cooperation.

Decked out in a sombrero, a frowning Trump adorns the label of the new "Amigous Cerveza" craft beer. Its makers thought up the name as a rebuke of the U.S. president's divisive campaign trail rhetoric against Mexico and his pledge to build a border wall.

The real estate tycoon turned out to be good for business..........................





Trump beer Bottles of beer named "Amigous," with images of U.S. President Donald Trump, are pictured at the Cru Cru brewery in Mexico City, Mexico, June 13, 2017. Carlos Jasso/Reuters

A kind of New England Indian Pale with a dash of mango,............................

[duhneece]

1. I want this beer very, very much. nt

[Lithos]

2. Always wary of these kinds of kitschy beers

But I'm still interested...

L-

[FakeNoose]

3. Ole Cheeto bandito

[LeftInTX]

4. Those bottles will be collectors' items

[Crash2Parties]

11. Like Billy Beer...but with a far more tragic history.

[Doreen]

5. I hate beer but I want a can of that beer to decorate with!

[marked50]

6. Good Article, but I came at it from a slightly different way.

When I read the OP title I was expecting to read about some local brewery putting out this beer and I would seek it out.

Turns out that the "New Mexican-U.S. Beer" isn't from around here, like Albuquerque or Santa Fe but is a new Mexican beer from Mexico. My Mistake. But thanks for posting and I'll just have to go south of the border to find this...

[riversedge]

9. I first read it that way also.

[yuiyoshida]

7. But he is such a loser...

[flibbitygiblets]

8. Warning: May cause extreme narcissm, whining tweetstorms and uncontrollable pussy-grabbing

[Aristus]

10. So what? Every beer does that!