Are hipsters ruining craft beer?

[Lost_Arkitekt]

Yeah, I'm gobsmacked on those remarks too. Should I tell him I have a History B.A.

Great...as my pappy always said, "What do you call someone who graduated last in his/her law school class?" ....... "A lawyer."

 

[te-wa]

correlation does not equal causation

 

[b-boy]

Boyz and girlz, Mostly boyz, I don't remember any girlz, I am at the gate of 74 years old. I have read your thread in it's entirety. What else have you to do at my age? You are all making to much of the hipster scene IMHO. I remember the Hippy revolution of the late sixties. Same thing different times. Young folks are always trying to differentiate themselves from the status quo. Personally, I don't think this is such a big deal. So they have big waxed moustachios and maybe a whispy beard and claim to be the worlds next beer messiah, Feck, who believes that crap anyway? Yahn! let's just move on! OK?.......

Sudbuster makes a very good point here.

I wore platform shoes and bell bottoms in High School...platform shoes!!! I really have no business making fun of anyone.

 

[rodwha]

Got any pics of that?

 

[b-boy]

Nothing digital, but there are probably a few in existence.

I can describe the look.

Picture bell-bottom jeans with leather back pockets, black platform shoes with 4" heels, and a silk print shirt with a collar as wide as a 747's wingspan. Oh, and a white boy 'fro with a whispy attempt at a 70s pornstar mustache. I have red hair BTW. Just visualize a cross between Dirk Digler and Ronald McDonald.

I was much too cool for a leisure suit.

Yes - I was a real bad ass back then. Good thing I never actually got into a fight. I'd probably have broken an ankle with those stupid shoes.

 

[rodwha]

:fro:

 

[b-boy]

:fro:

^^^^^Yeah...my hair looked a lot like that.

 

[rodwha]

Pics are still better though...

 

[raleighwood]

I don't have a problem with hipsters, they are actually everywhere here in Raleigh. I just don't like to see someone basically belittle another individual based upon differences in interests. And i'm not saying all "hipsters" do this but i've seen in happen on more than one occasion. Another thing that pisses me off is when i see snoodish people turn their noses up at blue collar people that buy craft beer. This really cracks me since I am a full time student who works in a garage and i love the looks i get when i walk in my local bottle greasy and dirty as can be. Bottom line, craft beer is a culture consistent of a vast variety of people from all walks of life.

 

[Beergnomes]

Great...as my pappy always said, "What do you call someone who graduated last in his/her law school class?" ....... "A lawyer."

Sorry, I don't have any practical experience with law since I took my History B.A. and decided to pursue my Masters in Cultural Anthropology. I'll let you know if I finish last.

 

[Beergnomes]

I just have this overwhelming need to quote bugs bunny right now. Some of you will get this, some not. For those that do ... it will be our little secret.

 

[unionrdr]

I always like the one where he says "NEVER take life too seriously...you'll never get out of it alive"!

 

[tagz]

You know who's really ruining craft beer... those home brewers. Making their own hooch, when they could be supporting real beer.

 

[rodwha]

:d

 

[troy2000]

I used to be accused of being stuck in the 80's. I still have some old denim jackets. I won't wear them in public though as someone might confuse me of being a hipster wearing that coupled with my beard…

I have denim jackets, too. I get away with wearing them because I also wear a cowboy hat....

An ancient retiree who came back to supervise a special project watched me rolling out of my pickup one morning. I was wearing jeans, boots, hat, Rayban aviator sunglasses, and a denim jacket over a white tee-shirt.

He looked me up and down, and said, "well. You look very umm... local this morning...."

I told him, "hey, I have a right. I was raised here...." Of course, I was also gone for thirty two years before I came back to take this job.

 

[sawbossFogg]

I heard hipsters have discovered Stormy Kromers....


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[shaggy727]

absolutely.

 

[highgravitybacon]

I think hipsters are ruining hipsters. It used to be you could tell a hipster from afar. But now, hipster wannabes are actually better hipsters than the real thing. Real hipsters have to up their game or become even more hipster which just makes them look like phony hipsters. In the end, it's a hipster nation where everyone strives to be an "individual" that looks like every other dude in women's pants and an 80s tight roll going on.

 

[Chadwick]

Lol, I love this ^

Everyone is trying to look strange and different so they can be unique. Just like everybody else.

 

[unionrdr]

We were just doin our own thing back in the day as "hippies". It wasn't about just looking different & thinking you're cool. Damn kids. Can't live with'em,can't shoot'em...

 

[Spoonmann]

A little off topic, but beards seem to just fit with beer. This was in the NY post this week-

http://nypost.com/2014/02/25/hipster-wannabes-forking-over-thousands-for-facial-hair-transplants/

"One happy patient is Danny, 27, whose beard used to be so patchy, he was forced to “fill it in” with an eyebrow pencil, he said."

Pretty sure Danny missed the point of having a beard in the first place...

 

[Kee]

We were just doin our own thing back in the day as "hippies". It wasn't about just looking different & thinking you're cool. Damn kids. Can't live with'em,can't shoot'em...

I tend to agree, but I remember quite a few style conscious "hippies" who would not be caught dead in jeans that looked too new.

 

[unionrdr]

They had to be washed at least once to get the starch out of'em.

 

[losMythos]

I can't tell you how many times I have had some D-Bag at a bar with a huge beard tight jeans and a flannel tell me what beer i should get and then proceed to give me some drawn out lame ass Guy Fieri description of his boston lager.

 

[highgravitybacon]

I can't tell you how many times I have had some D-Bag at a bar with a huge beard tight jeans and a flannel tell me what beer i should get and then proceed to give me some drawn out lame ass Guy Fieri description of his boston lager.

I think you're mixing up hipsters with *********s. There is ample overlap, however.

 

[dangerbrew]

I have no idea where this discussion thread is at concerning this topic, but when I saw the title I had the immediate need to click on it and respond simply by saying,

"Yes."

 

[BWE]

I'm not really sure what a hipster is. I also don't know why people have to be classified as something. Seems kinda highschoolish. When I was in high school there were names for everyone. Rednecks, stoners, preps, jocks, whatever. But when I got into the real world and began working, everyone ended up just being people.

Usually when people try an label themselves as something, they are still searching for there true identity within themselves. I don't know what my style is called, but I like it and care less what other people think.

 

[Brewmenn]

I'm not really sure what a hipster is. I also don't know why people have to be classified as something. Seems kinda highschoolish. When I was in high school there were names for everyone. Rednecks, stoners, preps, jocks, whatever. But when I got into the real world and began working, everyone ended up just being people.

Usually when people try an label themselves as something, they are still searching for there true identity within themselves. I don't know what my style is called, but I like it and care less what other people think.

x2.

I drink what I like, and everyone else can drink what they like. No labels needed.

 

[jpcourtney]

Did you hear about the Hipster Dinosaur who burned his foot?

He stepped on lava before it was cool...:cross:

 

[sandyeggoxj]

The whole hipster thing, among other microcosms of our modern culture, reminds me of a Warren Miller quote: "Just remember that you are unique, like everybody else!"