On Friday, the company will fly in 1,000 young adults for a weekend of spring-break-style revelry, a stunt designed to publicize Bud Light. The town’s main thoroughfare, Elk Avenue, has been adorned with outdoor hot tubs, a sand pit, concert lights and a stage. Restaurants and hotels have been stripped of many local markings and given beer-branded umbrellas and signs instead. When the filming starts, drinks will be unlimited, access to the main street will be restricted to people with company-issued bracelets, and beautiful, mountain-ringed Crested Butte will be rebranded as “Whatever, U.S.A.”


camarillobrillo:

    and the half-million from Anheuser-Busch — which the company is calling a donation

So, tax-free? Sickening. Welcome to the United States of [your logo here]! This Bud's for you.


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