Polygamy Porter

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Polygamy Porter is since autumn 2001 available beer of the variety Porter , which from that in Park City in the US state of Utah is manufactured brewery established Schirf Brewing Company (Wasatch Beers). It has a malty-chocolate taste and an alcohol content of four percent by volume . The variety was awarded a silver medal from the North American Brewers Association in the Brown Porter category in 2006 and a silver medal at the World Beer Cup in the Other Low Strength Ale or Lager category two years later .

The design of the bottle labels, on which a nearly naked man is shown together with several women, and the advertising slogans “Take some home for the wives” and “Why have just one!”, That referring to the practice of polygamy both as “why only one” and “why only one” has generated public controversy and protests in Utah. The reason for this is that around 70 percent of the population of the state belong to the religious community of the Mormons , whose religious traditions include both the rejection of alcohol and, historically until 1890 in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and in some fundamentalist communities until in the present that belongs to polygamy.

Other beers from Wasatch Beers with a deliberate reference to religious aspects in the name are the alcohol-free root beer Brigham's Brew Root Beer , the name of which refers to the second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Brigham Young , as well as the Ale variety Evolution Amber Ale with the advertising slogans "As always, intelligently designed just for intelligent beer-drinkers" (As always, intelligently created only for intelligent beer drinkers, an allusion to the creationist concept of intelligent design as an antithesis to the theory of evolution ) and "Created in 27 days, not 7 “(Created in 27 days, not 7).

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