First appearance on Fox: Conservative “wake-free” beer company The organization, which launched last year with the aim of rivaling Bud Light, held an event Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill fraternity house to celebrate the actions of students who defended the Star-Spangled Banner from anti-Israel protesters on campus earlier this week. We are planning to host the event.
The event, dubbed “Frat Boy Summer Kickoff,” will be held at the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity house and sponsored by Ultra Light Beer Company.
“We’re trying to make this a very organic, good old-fashioned, flat-row beer party,” CEO Seth Weathers said. ultra light beer companyhe told FOX News Digital. “I love what the kids do when they protect the flag.”
“I love the idea of just continuing to encourage them for what they’ve done. That way, you know, it shows other kids in college and other places that they did the right thing. It will encourage you to know,” he added.
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The event, dubbed “Frat Boy Summer Kickoff,” will be held at the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity house and sponsored by Ultra Light Beer Company. (Parker Ali/Daily Tar Heel, Ultra Light Beer Company)
Ultra Light Beer Company will offer free beer to attendees because Weathers believes it will be a “really good event” involving “multiple fraternities” and Barstool Sports subsidiary Old Row. I plan on handing it out.
“We give free beer,” he said. “We’re keeping it very simple. We’ll give you free beer, so come along. We’re bringing half a tractor-trailer’s worth of beer for this event. I’m just anticipating a crowd.”
Several fraternities at UNC-Chapel Hill drew praise earlier this week after they were photographed holding American flags on the university’s quad, which had been removed and replaced with Palestinian flags. They made the decision to intervene when anti-Israel agitators tried to take down the flag again after UNC President Lee Roberts responded with law enforcement officials to return it to its original position.
Afterwards, the flag was flying at half-mast. 4 Charlotte police officers killed At work on Monday.
Weathers said the event is a “pro-American celebration of these kids and what they’ve done to encourage more of the same behavior.”
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UNC-Chapel Hill students hold American flags during a protest on campus on April 30, 2024. (Parker Ali/Daily Tar Heel)
“Our brand is all about that. We’re all about patriotism, we’re all about people boldly showing their patriotism and beliefs. And when we see kids doing it, we I’m excited about that,” he said.
Several Republicans have praised the fraternity brothers for refusing to intervene and remove the American flag from campus, including Rep. Pat Fallon (R-Texas). , praised the brothers as showing “extreme courage” and “deep patriotism”.
Fraternity brothers continued to defend the flag for more than an hour until police removed the protesters and safely returned the flag to the flagpole. All the while, the Hula Hula brothers experienced profanity and disrespect from protesters, as well as water, bottles, and stones being thrown at them.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said this week that the students’ actions were “commendable.”
A GoFundMe page was set up to “outrage” the Friars’ decision to protect the flag on campus, and as of Saturday, more than $500,000 had been raised.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Campus. (Fox News Digital)
“These kids are going to be pulled in the direction of millions of people trying to get their hands on GoFundMe money,” Weather said. “We wanted to do something organic for them to further promote the patriotism we saw on campus last week.”
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Ultra Light Beer Company launched in April 2023 as a rival to Bud Light after partnering with transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney, but it faced backlash from conservatives across the country who have long supported the beer giant. was invited.
FOX News’ Audrey Conklin and Alexander Hall contributed to this report.
