Brooklyn Brewery's Stonewall IPA

Men's Journal learns the history of the Stonewall Inn IPA, Brooklyn Brewery's beer for celebrating Pride Month.

Transcript

00:00I'm Garrett Oliver. I'm brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery. Well, as people hopefully know, the

00:06Stonewall Inn was basically the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement. In 1969,

00:14there was a confrontation with the police, and finally the people who were there said

00:18we're not backing down. And the Stonewall Inn has become not only a symbol, but it has

00:23the Stonewall Inn initiative to give back into the community. And they came to us and

00:27said, would you make a beer to go with prize celebrations? We were like, oh yeah, of course.

00:33And as we've worked with them more and more, we're kind of realizing like, wow, this is

00:37a thing where we can really not only make a great beer, but put our money where our

00:42mouths are as people who are going to stand up for diverse communities and for everybody's

00:46rights to be themselves, and also drink some really good beer at the same time. So we're

00:52super proud of that beer and think that it can go everywhere with us.