Loyal Bud Light Drinkers Switch Brews Over Transgender Controversy

One Arizona bar reports an 80 percent drop in sales

Sydney Encinas, a bartender at The Chaparral Bar in Cottonwood, Ariz., pours a glass of Bud Light on April 14, 2023. Allan Stein/The Epoch Times

CORNVILLE, Ariz.—Whatever alcoholic beverage Scott Bradshaw was nursing in a tall glass while seated at the Old Corral Bar in Cornville, Arizona, it wasn’t Bud Light.

Bud Light isn’t on Bradshaw’s list of favorite lower-calorie beers these days—not after Anheuser-Busch InBev mixed business and “woke” politics in promoting a transgender brand ambassador.