Anheuser-Busch Inbev said Tuesday that revenue growth in most of its global regions was offset by a drop in North American sales, in a sign of continuing fallout from a promotion with a transgender influencer that cost it sales.

The world’s largest brewer and parent company of Bud Light said adjusted earnings for the latest quarter rose 4.1% to $5.4 billion on revenues that climbed 5% to $15.6 billion.

Revenue in the United States for the July-September period, however, tumbled 13.5%. AB InBev, based in Leuven, Belgium, noted that sales to retailers were down “primarily due to the volume decline of Bud Light.”

Bud Light sales plunged amid a conservative backlash after the brand sent a commemorative can to transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney in early April.

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    InBev is anus and their generic beers are mostly horrible. People should have already been boycotting them long ago for being a soulless international conglomerate.

    Chances are there is a local or regional brew that corresponds to whatever mass market swill they produce, and people should drink those small local brewery offerings instead.

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      No no, tasting like piss is not the issue here. They never once complained about drinking the worst made beer ever.

      Clearly the issue was someone once gave 6 beers to someone they don’t like.

      I mean, once that person posted on social media… well bigotry requires that they must shout about people “shoving this issues down my throat” and act like an asshole.

      I mean that person who got 6 free beers posted a fucking picture about in the internet… can you believe that? From now on you gotta buy piss from someone else. I bet they’re not “woke” in South Africa…

      /s

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      I want bud light to die because it’s shitty beer. I don’t want bud light to die like this because homophobes will think they won something.

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        It shines bad light on Budweis (České Budějovice), home of the best beer in the world (second only to another Czech town Plzeň/Pilsen)

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      for being a soulless international conglomerate.

      I think this rhetoric would hit harder if the alternatives were willing to sacrifice profit to give us a better deal.