Mount Crushmore: Settler Colonialism and Beer
There was a post a short bit ago on Good Beer Hunting about the writer's "Mount Crushmore" of beers. A monument to supremely influential beers in their life. I wanted to partake, but struggled because of my disdain for the actual monument. It is built on sacred (stolen) land and I struggle with that. As a therapeutic release, I decided to look at the exercise a little differently. Craft beer fans think of ABInbev as big, bad guys looking to conquer and assimilate all that stand in their way. Sound familiar with any history stories? Perhaps the stories of some folks memorialized on stolen land? Maybe not to many of us as Americans, but that's like looking at ABInbev through Goose Island goggles. So if these guys on Mount Rushmore were ABInbev beers, who would they be? Let's do this! George Washington - At the time of the revolution, one could argue the British were the largest imperialist nation. However, George Washington helped turn the tides (and establish