Early in 2015, Cigar City Brewing founder Joey Redner crowned himself the troll of all trolls by playing into the patently unbelievable notion that beer giant Anheuser-Busch might purchase Tampa’s pride & joy. He admitted to ‘taking a meeting’ with AB, but when the internet caught fire after an alarmist TBO.com article, Redner went full on, getting an AB logo on the tasting room door and even emblazoning some work shirts with the symbol, too. Well played, sir.
This article appears in Sep 24-30, 2015.