Hipsters heads will explode

[madscientist451]

Oh No, another sellout. A trendy, overpriced coffee shop chain is selling out to the same company that mass produces Stouffer's frozen pizza, instant coffee, Coffeemate creamer, CookieCrisp cereal and hundreds of other products.
Apparently people in the San Francisco area wait in long lines so they can look cool strolling into work with their cups of specialty coffee.
Hopefully not too many heads will explode when they find out they've been supporting an international corporate takeover machine.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/15/...lls-out-to-international-conglomerate-nestle/

 

[Homercidal]

Drink beer instead.

 

[KayaBrew]

Drink beer instead.

Drink PBR to keep your hipster street cred, though.

 

[dawn_kiebawls]

I am a proud supporter of hipster heads exploding

 

[triethylborane]

I am a proud supporter of hipster heads exploding

nothing of value damaged

 

[smurfjuice]

No insurance claim ...

 

[MeatyPortion]

All this small batch coffee stuff is pretty overrated imo, I was drinking Black Rifle Coffee for awhile but it's like 3x the price of an ordinary bag and I don't notice much difference in terms of taste. Doesn't mean I'm going to drown my sorrow in Folger's crystals but I can get a bag of Pick and Save coffee for around $5 and be fine.

 

[soccerdad]

I look for fair trade organic coffee. It's better for the small farmer. Their kids are spared the dangers of pesticide use and storage and the farmer has a greater chance for a living wage. Nestle, Maxwell, Starbuck and Folger are more into dirt cheap prices for mediocre beans.

And I like exploding heads .. not right in front of me, but on film using CGI .. while relaxing with a home brew.

 

[smurfjuice]

Can't we get A&P 8 o'clock coffee any more ...

 

[iijakii]

Oh No, another sellout. A trendy, overpriced coffee shop chain is selling out to the same company that mass produces Stouffer's frozen pizza, instant coffee, Coffeemate creamer, CookieCrisp cereal and hundreds of other products.
Apparently people in the San Francisco area wait in long lines so they can look cool strolling into work with their cups of specialty coffee.
Hopefully not too many heads will explode when they find out they've been supporting an international corporate takeover machine.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/09/15/...lls-out-to-international-conglomerate-nestle/

Doesnt this make you the hipster complaining about people enjoying coffee because it's trendy? I forget the rules on what's a hipster these days, just that it has to be in relation to you feeling better than someone's tastes.

Like those hipsters and their nasty saisons.

 

[soccerdad]

Can't we get A&P 8 o'clock coffee any more ...

You can. Just not at A&P.

 

[Dustin_J]

Meh, the real hipsters probably all know a bunch of cooler/smaller/more local joints anyway

I personally really enjoy trying a variety of single origin coffees from the "third wave" local roaster type places. It's a lot like different beer styles; depending on origin, processing, roast, brewing method, etc. you get very different flavor profiles. Good stuff, and not all that expensive if you get some basic equipment for doing pour over, aeropress, (insert favorite brewing method here), etc. at home.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

I like to go into my favorite coffee establishment...or gas station.. and pour my cup of coffee...then smell it...then add a little milk...then stir it with a little red thing....then add just a pinch of sugar....then stir it....then sample it...then add just a little pinch more of sugar...then smell it again..then stir it...then sample it...till its just right.
All while theres a line of people behind me waiting with a Gadorade and a microwaved egg sandwich waiting to go to work

 

[MaxStout]

I was into exploding hipster heads long before it was trendy.

 

[madscientist451]

Doesnt this make you the hipster complaining about people enjoying coffee because it's trendy? I forget the rules on what's a hipster these days, just that it has to be in relation to you feeling better than someone's tastes.

Actually, I don't think I fit the definition of hipster. Sure my brewing, hop-growing, heirloom cider apple scavenging and pursuit of an authentic delta blues sound on guitar may be considered somewhat hip, but I'm probably older than would be required, not liberal enough, no facial hair,
I like target practice better than hanging out in cool bars or coffee shops and am too much of a sarcastic A-hole to be accepted into the hipster brotherhood.
Truth be told, I posted the article as a jab at those offended by brewery takeovers more than anything else.....

 

[triethylborane]

 

[iijakii]

Actually, I don't think I fit the definition of hipster. Sure my brewing, hop-growing, heirloom cider apple scavenging and pursuit of an authentic delta blues sound on guitar may be considered somewhat hip, but I'm probably older than would be required, not liberal enough, no facial hair,
I like target practice better than hanging out in cool bars or coffee shops and am too much of a sarcastic A-hole to be accepted into the hipster brotherhood.
Truth be told, I posted the article as a jab at those offended by brewery takeovers more than anything else.....

Hmm, none of those things are really precluding. Have you ever waited in line for a beer release and/or wrote an essay on BeerAdvocate? If so I think you're in the club bro.

 

[madscientist451]

Hmm, none of those things are really precluding. Have you ever waited in line for a beer release and/or wrote an essay on BeerAdvocate? If so I think you're in the club bro.

Good retort: nope, I hate waiting in line for anything and I really don't like commercial beer all that much, although that doesn't stop me from drinking lots of it when there's no homebrew around. I've used beer advocate to decide what I should choose from a taplist with beers I don't know. My descriptor vocabulary deficiency would keep me from entering anything in BA however. Some of the reviewers on there are very clever wordsmiths, most likely very hip people that drink blue bottle coffee as well.