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Franklin Brewery Says It Didn’t Know 'Boogaloo' Was A Racist Term


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The Asheville Brewers Alliance kicked out a member brewery after its new beer - named for an alt-right movement - went viral. Dan Kowal went to Currahee Brewing Company in Franklin for an outdoor jazz concert Saturday night. When he saw the brewery’s new line of Boogaloo beers the evening changed. “It just knocked me almost down to see that this was being promoted,” says Kowal. In the past, ‘boogaloo’ , referred to a style of music. Recently it has become a word used by the alt-right as a term
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