Wanna bet? Sun King challenges New England brewery to wager on Colts-Patriots game

Enough with the "quarterback sux" insults.

Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewery is ready to put its money where its mouth -- actually not its mouth, but the bottom of its beer can -- is.

Taking to Twitter Friday, Colts-loving Sun King issued a challenge to rival, Patriots-loving Blue Hills Brewery, in Canton, Mass.

"How about a friendly wager? $500 on the Oct 18th game to the winners charity of choice. Winning team matches & a good cause wins"

"We've done some wagers like this before," said Sun King co-owner Clay Robinson, "and it’s been a lot of fun."

With this one, however, the stakes will be higher than the $500. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady comes to Indianapolis Oct. 18 to take on the Colts, his first game back after the 4-game suspension issued by the NFL for the DeflateGate scandal.

You can bet the heated rivalry will be at an all-time high.

The Sun King bet challenge comes just days after it was revealed that Biscuit, a renegade employee at Sun King who (without his company's permission) put "Tom Brady Sux" on the bottom of 20,000 cans of its Wee Mac Scottish Ale.

Blue Hills retaliated with an "A. Luck Sux" beer can on Thursday.

"We’re happy to see some playful back and forth from a Boston brewery," said Robinson. "It sure beats all of the hateful emails, Facebook, Twitter, and Yelp posts, the vulgar and offensive voicemails and the death threat that we received."

A death threat? No wonder Biscuit is staying undercover.

10:15 a.m. update, Aug. 14....

And now...Biscuit has his own beer can.

Oskar Blues Brewery, out of Longmont, Col. and in the heart of Broncos QB Peyton Manning land -- has chosen sides. Tom Brady "sux" more than Andrew Luck.

Friday morning, the brewery tweeted a picture of an IPA beer can with a born-on date stamp on the bottom reading: "Nice Job, Biscuit!" The tweet said "We Gotcher back #biscuit"

Biscuit, of course, is the renegade employee at Indianapolis-based Sun King Brewery who started the whole beer can saga by (without his company's permission) putting "Tom Brady Sux" on the bottom of 20,000 cans of its Wee Mac Scottish Ale.

Thursday, Blue Hills Brewery -- a Canton, Mass. microbrewery in the heart of New England Patriots territory -- said two can play this game.

What game? The "rip on an NFL quarterback on the bottom of a beer can" game. Blue Hills stamped a born-on date reading: "08/13/15 A. Luck Sux."

Blue Hills, located 12 miles from Gillette Stadium, proudly tweeted the can out in a photo: "our reply to the @SunKingBrewing 'Tom Brady' cans. #GoPats#2canplaythatgm"

A call to the brewery went unanswered. So there's no word on whether 20,000 cans or 20 cans were produced with the jab at Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. Or maybe just that one can.

But we will get to the bottom of it.

10:34 p.m. update, Aug. 13....

There has been plenty of reaction from Colts fans on the beer can saga.

You know, the "Patriots stole an idea from the Colts' playbook," "flat beer," "cheaters" type of stuff? Take a look:

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