Brantley Gilbert doesn’t drink anymore. (As he likes to say, he’s allergic to alcohol – he breaks out in handcuffs).
But if he did, it seems that Bud Light wouldn’t be his beer of choice.
Obviously Bud Light has been in the headlines quite a bit the past few weeks, stirring up controversy after an ad campaign featuring transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
In the country music world, two of the most outspoken stars against Bud Light have been Travis Tritt and John Rich.
While Rich announced that he would be removing Bud Light from his downtown Nashville bar, Redneck Riviera, Tritt also said that he would be removing all Anheuser-Busch products from his tour rider.
Tritt said he’s not alone in the country music world when it comes to removing his support of Bud Light, but that other artists are afraid to speak up about it – noting that he has no such fear:
Well it seems Brantley Gilbert has no problem making his feelings on Bud Light known either.
During a show this weekend at Indian Mountain ATV Park in Alabama, somebody threw Gilbert a Bud Light on stage.
The country rocker held the beer up or a second, before spiking it on the stage to massive applause from the crowd:
“Yeah, fuck that.”
Brantley was then tossed another beer of a different brand, which he seemingly approved of – but since he doesn’t drink himself, he handed that one off to his drummer to shotgun.
And Brantley’s not the only artist who’s gotten a strong reaction to seemingly taking a shot at Bud Light from the stage over the weekend. During a show at Nissan Stadium while opening for Luke Combs, the crowd erupted when Riley Green changed “Bud Light” to “Coors Light” in the lyrics to his song “I Wish Grandpas Never Died.”
I guess the Bud Light controversy isn’t going away any time soon.
