Mackinaw City brewery names beer after Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theory

Taylor Nichole Morris | Detroit Free Press

A northern Michigan brewery has added a new beer to its lineup with quite the unusual name.

Rusted Spoke Brewing Co. in Mackinaw City is featuring "Epstein Didn't Kill Himself," a New England IPA.

Alissa Klinger, operations manager at Rusted Spoke Brewing Co., says they added the beer last week.

"We had people that once I posted it on Facebook got in their car and actually drove here for it, so I thought that was fun. It has increased the sales, of course. It doesn't matter who you are, people think it's funny."

Jeffrey Epstein, 66, an American financier who was accused of trafficking underage girls, died Aug. 10. While awaiting trial, he was found unresponsive in his jail cell at the Special Housing Unit of Manhattan Correctional Center in Manhattan.

His death was ruled a suicide, but skeptics believed he was killed because of "his damaging secrets on powerful figures," Business Insider reports.

Later, an autopsy conducted by Dr. Michael Baden and commissioned by Epstein’s brother concluded that his death was likely a homicide, not a suicide — fueling conspiracy theorists.

Rusted Spoke isn't the first brewery to jump on the Epstein idea.

Tactical Ops Brewing, a military-themed craft beer brewery based out of Fresno, California, had a similar idea with the Epstein conspiracy. According to the International Business Times, they recently released a batch of their Basher Oatmeal Stout with the phrase “Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself" printed on the bottom of their beer cans.

Klinger says they got the idea from the memes circulating around Epstein's death conspiracy theory.

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