When Dogs Can Fly: Maryland’s Largest Brewery Leaves the Brewers Association

If you attended a North American institution of higher education starting in the late nineties and continuing into the aughts and beyond, you may have received and forwarded an email describing humorous and/or offensive sex acts that later became the staple of sites like Urban Dictionary and games like Cards Against Humanity. Some of these acts are anatomically near-impossible, and a handful crossed the line (blurred though you may think it is) into sexual assault. Many of these involved men doing things to, and not with, women. Men, as subjects, acting on women, objects. Think of recent debates around consent and the act of “stealthing,” and you’ll get a good idea about the darker side of this list.

Included in this email was a sex act called a “pearl necklace,” also the name of Flying Dog’s Chesapeaker Oyster Stout, which debuted in 2011. Earlier this month, Flying Dog announced that they would leave the Brewers Association (BA), citing freedom of expression and free enterprise. It i