The 10 best ‘I’m not 21’ website redirects for local breweries and distilleries, ranked
Have you ever accidentally (or absentmindedly) clicked the “I’m not 21” buttons on websites for breweries or distilleries in Charlotte? Not all of them have the age verification barrier — it’s a precaution, not a legal requirement.
But there are some hilarious (and informative) redirects set up by the establishments that do.
I worked really hard (sitting at my desk, clicking my mouse) to bring to you the 10 best ‘I’m not 21’ website redirects for breweries and distilleries, ranked. Note: No. 1 and No. 2 are the most hilarious.
Let’s get started:
(10) NoDa Brewing Co.
NoDa offers a (kind of deep) reality check for teens. The site redirects you to The Cool Spot: The Young Teen’s Place for Info on Alcohol and Resisting Peer Pressure.
What I learned: A “standard drink” has 1.2 tablespoons of pure alcohol. (Yum?)
(9) Doc Porter’s
This distillery in LoSo redirects you to CharlottesGotALot.com, because why get buzzed when you can explore the city? Among yesterday’s listings, I found 6 Must-Do Charlotte Experiences, Charlotte’s Top Tours and, ironically, 10 Ways to Explore Craft Beer in Charlotte (there’s no redirect when you click that).
(8) Blue Blaze Brewing
Blue Blaze stays on brand with their redirect. We already know their core beers are named after different trail markings, so it only makes sense that their redirect link launches you to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy website. There’s a pop-up to support the 2018 annual campaign. Are you in?
[Related: How 21 Charlotte breweries got their names.]
(7) The Unknown Brewing Co.
The Unknown gets a little sassy, using its redirect to land you on the Wikipedia page for “legal drinking age.”
What I learned: “Some countries also have different age limits for different types of alcoholic drinks.” Interesting indeed.
(6) Broken Spoke NC
This cocktail spot affiliated with Great Wagon Road Distillery dives a little deeper into the depths of Wikipedia than The Unknown, with an exploration of the The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 as its redirect page.
What I learned: This act “was a controversial bill that punished every state that allowed persons below 21 years to purchase and publicly possess alcoholic beverages by reducing its annual federal highway apportionment by 10 percent.”
(5) The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery
If you click “no” in response to the question “Are you 21?”, you’re sent to Responsibility.org, which features the prompt: “Join us in starting a lifetime of conversations around alcohol responsibility.”
There’s also a decently entertaining video on the main page called “Shaq Wants You to Drive Like You Give a #&%@!”
(4) Thirsty Nomad Brewing
Thirsty Nomad starts out with some comedy, prompting you to click on a button that reads “I shouldn’t be here.” Then it redirects you to a resource that should add some class to your existence: The Google Arts & Culture site. Here, you can take a virtual tour of the buildings of Le Corbusier, learn about Jewish ceramicists from Germany, and learn about how the zebra got its stripes. (I know you’re curious now, so read more about the zebra here.)
(3) Free Range Brewing
Free Range gets clever with the young people, redirecting them to the Too Young (Sidney Lippman and Sylvia Dee song) Wikipedia page. The song was published in 1951 and recorded by Nat King Cole in the U.S. the same year.
You can here it sweetly performed on a Hohner Chromonica 280 here:
(2) Amor Artis Brewing
This Fort Mill brewery comes out of nowhere with the most absurd redirect site, sending under-21-ers to a web page that features something called Animated IOS Nyan Cat Stickers. Click here, turn up your volume and watch a cat sprinting in place while emitting the most obnoxious sound you’ve ever heard. Don’t forget to tweet your score for how long you’ve “nyaned.”
I nyaned for 160 seconds.
(1) Triple C. Brewing Co.
Nothing beats Triple C’s “Goats Yelling Like Humans” Youtube redirect, though.
I dare you to watch this without laughing. (You can’t.)
Featured photo: CharlotteFive files
This story was originally published March 22, 2018 at 2:20 AM with the headline "The 10 best ‘I’m not 21’ website redirects for local breweries and distilleries, ranked."