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Budweiser will offer 10,000 free Lyft rides every weekend through the end of the year

Budweiser will offer 10,000 free Lyft rides every weekend through the end of the year

Ari Dinero | Contributing Illustrator

Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser, announced the partnership on Wednesday. Budweiser will release the first free Lyft ride code Thursday at 2 p.m.

One of the country’s largest beer companies is partnering with popular ride-hailing service Lyft to offer 10,000 free round-trip rides every weekend and on select holidays through the end of the year.

New York residents will qualify for free rides.

Anheuser-Busch, the maker of Budweiser, announced the partnership on Wednesday as part of the company’s “Give A Damn” anti-drunken driving campaign.

Every Thursday through Dec. 31, Budweiser will release a ride code on its Facebook and Instagram accounts. Lyft users that are at least 21 years old can claim two $10 one-way ride credits to use Thursdays through Saturdays between 5 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Budweiser will release the first ride code on Thursday at 2 p.m.

Lyft users will be able to use the credits in Washington, D.C., New York and eight other states.

Accounting for the weekends and holidays, Budweiser will offer a total of 150,000 free round-trip Lyft rides by the end of the year, according to a company press release.

Ride-hailing services such as Lyft and Uber — previously not authorized in upstate New York — began operating in the region in June.