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.
He's probably looking at you and thinking you are a ******.
yes, but it's definitely becoming a "hipster" beer. people are ordering it because it's cool.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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?
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
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.
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 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
The only advantage PBR has is its price points.
Also why did I get stuck with the old English and Mickeys
I got stuck at labatt and molson
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