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By Brian Linder | [email protected] There’s a good chance most folks outside of Wisconsin had not heard of Minocqua Brewing Company prior to the past week or so. That is quickly changing because the brewery has put itself right in the middle of controversy with a promise on Facebook on January 22. That promise? “Free beer, all day long, the day he dies,” the brewery wrote. “Show us this post when it happens in a few months and we’ll make good on that promise.” The brewery added an update, “we meant the Madison Taproom because that’s open all year, if he dies in the summer, then it’s gonna be the Minocqua Taproom.” Donald Trump wasn’t specifically named in the post, but the brewery has plenty of anti-ICE posts on its page. Its followers seemed to think it was Trump, and in a response to Fox News’ attempt to question them about it, the brewery made it clear who was being referenced. “Apparently Fox News wants to interview us about our upcoming ‘celebration of life’ party, in which we promised free beer for the whole day when he finally dies,” a post on the brewery’s Facebook page wrote. Minocqua then shared its response to Fox’s Lindsay Kornick. “If you’d like to come to our party celebrating the impending death of a twice-impeached convicted felon covering up for the largest child sex ring in the history of the United States — someone who has enabled his contemporary American Gestapo to brutally murder two American protesters in a matter of weeks, then we’ll invite you and any Fox News colleagues of yours on one condition …. No red hats allowed. Give your bosses at Faux News my best. Kirk Bangstad, Owner, Minocqua Brewing Company.” On Jan. 28, the brewery shared a Fox News article about its free beer promise on Facebook and offered another response. “Who knew that Faux News would still write this story after we went viral mocking them in response to their cynical request for a quote about our ‘celebration of life’ free beer party the MOMENT he dies,” the post read. “It’s amazing how out-of-touch they are thinking that they’d hurt us by publishing this story. The world and most of America will be celebrating as hard or harder than us when this day happens, and they still figure their shrinking audience of manipulatable deplorables, who we already refuse to serve, would find our gallows humor appalling. Thanks Fox, you’ve done wonders for our sales in the last few days. Keep covering this story and we’ll be able to pour that much more free beer when his blood clot finally moves.” And on Thursday the brewery continued trolling Trump’s followers, even announcing that it had “200 Trump voodoo dolls made.” The brewery then tagged Fox News, Blaze Media, and the New York Post and also called out “all the other right-wing ‘news’ outlets who covered our ‘Celebration of Life’ party and subsequently introduced us to thousands of new customers around the globe, we welcome your next story about how we’ve embraced the ancient Voodoo religion to ‘GET THE JOB DONE ALREADY!’ “Surely the easily-manipulated deplorables in your audience believe that Voodoo actually works, and will demand that eagle-eyed Kash Patel put us on his FBI watchlist, because it’s clear that Catholic/West African-inspired spiritual prayers are a threat to the regime,” the brewery’s post added. “Thanks for your help, ‘Bondye,’ the pins we’re sticking into this doll suggest that we’ve gotta stop writing and start making a ton more beer for our party.” The brewery had plenty of followers posting supportive messages to its posts, and it shared screen shots of many who did not appreciate the move at all. “This is the level of humor and pettiness I’m here for!” one person replied. “Yep, 3rd post from y’all that’s come up and I’m sold,” another replied. “Following you and willing to find a reason to visit the brewery as soon as I can! It’s a 35 hr drive though, so we’ll see how soon.” According to Fox News the brewery is largely known for “specialty-branded beers based on political trends and figures such as ‘Resistance Pilsner’ and ‘Tammy Shandy,’ after Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin. That has obviously changed. Brian Linder headshot Brian Linder Brian Linder is the trending editor and the retail, restaurant and real estate editor at PennLive.com. He has more than 20 years of experience working for newspapers first in South Carolina, then Daytona Beach,... more [email protected] https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/01/brewery-offering-free-beer-all-day-long-the-day-donald-trump-dies.html