Did you know: Richard Uihlein, the billionaire CEO of ULINE, is a conservative mega donor? Well, he fucking is. He donates TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars every year to some of the most morally corrupt and heinous PACs, politicians, and causes. In 2022, an article in the Chicago Tribune noted he’s donated over $31.5 million to Republican candidates since 1998. When we brewed this beer last year, he had DOUBLED THAT AMOUNT between 2022 & 2024 –  donating $68 million according to opensecrets.org, a site that tracks PAC donations. But wait, there’s WAY more – in the 2024 election cycle, ULINE donated $146 MILLION DOLLARS TO CONSERVATIVE SUPER PACS – including Make America Great Again Inc, the Restoration PAC, Club for Growth Action PAC, Preserve America PAC, Fix Washington PAC, and Fair Courts America  – the latter is behind our current conservative Supreme Court justices and State judiciaries that have made a string of abhorrent decisions. And according to the Financial Times, he is the single largest donor to the anti-abortion movement and to pro-gun rights groups. SERIOUSLY FUCK THIS GUY.

Why are we telling you all this? Because breweries all over the country purchase packaging, shipping, and warehouse supplies from the ULINE catalog every day, and this money funnels directly into conservative causes and politicians, pushing anti-woman, anti-immigrant, anti-gun control, anti-social services and anti-free speech agendas.  As businesses and humans, we all have a choice when it comes to where we spend our money – and we choose to boycott Uline. For some alternatives: WCP Solutions, Peri Wrap, Good Start & Better Packaging Co. PS – Feel free to track political donations here: https://www.opensecrets.org/ and here: https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/

Oh SHIT we got so worked up that we forgot to talk about this kick ass beer! In protest to Uline, we brewed a true AMERICAN STYLE IPA that we hopped with Chinook, Columbus, Simcoe, Citra, & Amarillo (grown by farms in Washington that employ Immigrant workers!) for notes of pine, resin, blackberries, white grapefruit, tangerine, and freedom. Like, actual freedom and not a corrupt, tyrannical fascist regime.