He's probably looking at you and thinking you are a douche. PBR is a rather good beer, despite its formerly bad rap.The "ironic" hipster thing made me lol. I always snicker when I'm at a music club and some doosh with girl jeans on and black-framed fake glasses orders a PBR.
I'm sorry, I'm sure your Jordaches are very comfortable.He's probably looking at you and thinking you are a douche.
That was precisely my point.yes, but it's definitely becoming a "hipster" beer. people are ordering it because it's cool.
Trust me, I know people who drink PBR and are more than able to pay for whatever beer they want. It may be a slightly localized phenomenon, but people drink it at certain places because that's what everyone else is doing. I'm not commenting on the quality of PBR at all, just knocking trendy hipsters, just like the chart did. They get it, I guess some people don't.I would have to say people are not really ordering PBR because it is "cool". When you go to a bar and they are selling 16oz cans for $1. You are going to see people drinking it. When you go to the liquor store and a 12 pack is $2-3 cheaper then the other **** beers, you are going to see people drinking it.
It is all about economics. College kids are cheap. Bars started the trend by giving people cheap beer.
Me personally I love PBR. I always have a bunch of cans in my fridge during the summer. Why? because it is cheap. If I am going to drink water beer I want it to be cheap. I doubt you could call me or my friends hipsters. We don't fit the bill.
Spoken like someone who has never been to Portland.I would have to say people are not really ordering PBR because it is "cool". When you go to a bar and they are selling 16oz cans for $1. You are going to see people drinking it. When you go to the liquor store and a 12 pack is $2-3 cheaper then the other **** beers, you are going to see people drinking it.
It is all about economics. College kids are cheap. Bars started the trend by giving people cheap beer.
People in the east are all about image.
Not to mention that wearing girl jeans alone makes one lame. I could care less if they were ordering Stone, they would still be idiots.I didn't comment on the beer. At all. How's that beer snobbery?
I think it's lame to make any choices based on what's "cool". They could be ordering Sunny Delight for all I care, still makes it lame IMO. As for looks, those guys aren't born with girl jeans on.
This thread got way off courseI think it's lame to make any choices based on what's "cool". They could be ordering Sunny Delight for all I care, still makes it lame IMO. As for looks, those guys aren't born with girl jeans on.
Good point. Most of the I will not drink BMC beer comments come from people who are doing the same thing. Drinking non bmc to feel superior or cool.This thread got way off course![]()
Anyway, I think the above statement is silly. You make every choice in your life based on what you think is "cool". The difference is in definition. The girl jeans wearing dude thinks IMO fashion and a humorous beer that his dad probably drank and now he is semi-mocking is cool. You may think Nascar and buying stocks are cool.
All our choices are based on what is cool to us. You may call it "responsible" choices or rationalize your actions in another way, but it is all the same garbage. Craft brew drinkers are just buying into a different hype than BMC drinkers. We are all drinking Cool-aid, the only difference is who's selling it.
The older years might be selling for $600 on the second hand market, but you can get a 2009 bottle on ebay for less than $250. My brother paid $240 for his...It is a bottle of Utopias. The bottles are selling on ebay for about $600. A buddy in our brew club just got this years bottle for $180 from the liquor store
Interesting. Did your buddy like it at all?It is a bottle of Utopias. The bottles are selling on ebay for about $600. A buddy in our brew club just got this years bottle for $180 from the liquor store
Funny that you ask that. He did not try it. He thinks he is going to resell it on ebay. Try an double his money.Interesting. Did your buddy like it at all?
While I know that higher gravity beers are certainly more expensive to produce (all the work that goes into aging them, etc), it makes me wonder how much you're paying for the fancy bottle vs the actual booze within. A copper finished decanter? It makes me wonder if it's selling for $600 on eBay because the price of copper has skyrocketed in the past few years![]()
But if only people that are "poor" (your words) bought PBR the price would go up as demand goes down. So I would say thanks to everyone who buys PBR and helps support the company allowing the price to be as low as it is. Another view is the "hippseter" spent all his money on his clothes ect. and now has to keep a budget on the beer. And of course the style now is basically retro so of course a "retro" beer would be in style.When you roll up to a bar in Portland in the yuppie ass expensive neighborhood, see a hipster wanabe roll up on a 2500 dollar full custom Bianchi fixie with a pair of super extra small 140 dollar jeans designer glasses a beanie + scarf + messenger bag and order a PBR they are doing it for style. That right there is 65% of the PBR drinks in Portland. Now I'm poor and just graduated college I drive a Subaru that I paid $100 dollars for and have a $400 dollar bike that I had to buy so that I could actually get around Eugene as there is no parking in that city. I drink PBR whilst wearing a 40 dollar nike sweat suit I got at the outlet store that is poor.
As a child I remember going to my grandparent's home town of Primrose, Nebraska, population 69. A total farming community with 2 bars, 2 churches and that's it. I remember for whatever holiday we were up there, the adults would totally go through at least a few cases of PBR. I wished so much they'd let me drink so I could get blitzed and play cards with them.Lastly if you arn't a farmer than you really can't nag on others who drink PBR anyway as PBR is the Farmers Beer.
I try hard.I think it is funny how there are over 50 beers on that poster and all you brewers can talk about is PBR.
Good job BrewMoor![]()
Bullsh**. PBR has a very distinct taste compared to other BMC type beers, and I like it. That's why I buy it when I am shopping for something within that price range. IMO, it is the best beer in that price range.The only advantage PBR has is its price points.
I got stuck at labatt and molsonAlso why did I get stuck with the old English and Mickeys
that is what I was stuck with.I got stuck at labatt and molson