I think I’ll order a ZA from The HUT, maybe I’ll have a PAN…an MGD, PBR, or an IPA, Maybe a LITE… or just a BUD, to go with.
Oh yeah. Spent many a happy hour there.
Personally, if I’m in the mood for a blue collar beer, I am inclined to order a Budweiser. It’s the metahipster choice. 
Get ahead of the curve, people.
I was also confused by the reference to PBR. I’m pushing 50 and never heard that acronym for that brand of beer. Quite the opposite, we never ever mention the Blue Ribbon portion of the name, and always called it just plain old Pabst.
It had a bit of a kick for a lager. But then we discovered malt liquor.
I came back to point out that all the cool kids also drink Old Style now, and then I ran into these two guys…
I’m not a fan of Old Style. I’m convinced they pump extra CO2 into it because I get the worst bloat drinking it.
Genesee Cream Ale FTW. “Greeen Death” is a classic blue-collar old-man beer that should give you the “Genescreamers” not long after you drink it. Genny products aren’t considered low-end cheap beers around their home turf, but rather on same level as Bud/Miller/Coors. In fact, you’ll see more cooler space devoted to Genny than Budmiloors in the Buffalo and Rochester areas. However, in Buffalo, Labatt Blue is increasingly the default beer.
Yep. See my post up thread. We always called it Pabst when I was growing up in the '80s and '90s, and on the rare occasions I heard an older person (people who would be in their 60s or older now) talk about it, they went full bore and called it Pabst Blue Ribbon. PBR is what the internet generation calls it.
I drink Pabst when I’m broke. Honestly I am a Budweiser product person in general. Lots of people hate on AB but I could give a crap less. When I’m in the mood/have money/can find it, I like Harp, Kirin, Sam Adams Light, and a few other random beers. Never noticed “hipsters” around here drinking a lot of PBR, but instead they drink other cheap nastiness or expensive less-known beers. But I also don’t apparently go too many places where there are hipsters cause I hardly see any.
And damnit I have black rectangular glasses. They are hot. On my fifth pair = wearing them almost ten years since I was a HS frosh. I am pre-hipster. Booya.
I think mostly because its new (what, started being sold a couple of months ago?). A similar situation was Fat Tire a few months before that. In a few months that’ll die down as well, I’m sure.
I wonder if other areas get all excited when they finally get Sweetwater?
I think both will continue to sell well. Yuengling because it’s a cheaper option to Bud but just as good, and Fat Tire because it’s also good and price-competitive.
Those two marks have done well wherever they’ve gone.
Now what I truly don’t understand is the lime-beer craze. That’s pure redneck right there. Awful stuff.
And don’t get me started on the Budweiser with tomato and clam juice.
Micheladas (with or without Clamato) are quite tasty on a very hot summer day. They’re like a beer-based Bloody Mary. Budweiser’s premixed version kinda sucks, though, but I’m not a fan of AB products in general. I like mine with Modelo or Pacifico. The tomato-less variety is just hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire, lime, and sometimes Maggi seasoning. I think it works better than the same with Clamato, although both are good in replenishing the electrolytes on a sweltering August day.
If not, they should. Oh, to be able to buy it here in the Uncommonwealth of Kentucky. Maybe the best IPA I’ve ever had.
Amen. I had a Bug Light Lime last night. My first and last. BLECH!
That’s a Mexican hangover cure. Give me the Clamato without the beer. Just the thought of pelo de perro gags me if I’m hungover.
Since around 1999, then? Lisa Loeb had been rocking the geek-chic look/hipster look for ages by then, and she wasn’t the only one, so you might have been an early adopter, but you don’t predate it.
Never said I started the trend, but I did rock them before they became as widely popular as they are now. I was at least the first person in my particular high school. And this doesn’t make me cool, but it is annoying that something that I feel makes me “me” is now a cliche pretty much.
Oh, don’t get me wrong. I think they’ll sell well too, but there won’t be a “craze” as their currently is. Also I think a lot of it is people from the NorthEast (like myself) getting to try Yuengling again without going back up there (or visiting North Carolina or something like that ;)).
I don’t really like American beer, but my rather un-hip and antisocial friend got me into PBR. I usually like things like Grimbergen, Chimay, or St. Peter’s, but other then Sierra Nevada, Pabst is about the only brand I like made in the USA.
Plus it is light and refreshing when it is just too hot for a darker beer.
Skål!
Really? How many American beers have you tried? I’m not usually rah-rah-go-America about stuff in general, but for beer drinkers, it’s really a paradise, despite the outdated reputation of all American beer being pisswater.
I agree. I’ve been to Europe 3 times (twice when I was old enough to drink), Canada, Mexico, and Asia, and drank beer in all of those places, plus I frequently try imports from countries I haven’t been to. The US is severely underrated for its beer. Yuengling, Stone Brewing, Rogue, New Belgium, even Sam Adams, among many others are making wonderful, wonderful world-class beers, and excellent microbreweries are popping up locally all over the country (I’m proud of Four Peaks Brewery here), and yet we still having a reputation of our beer being “like sex in a canoe” :rolleyes:. I can’t imagine very many other places have the selection of world-class domestics that we do.
AND, to add to that . . . (hoping I established some credibility above) . . . Bud Light just ain’t that bad. Some people need to get over themselves.
That’s the thing – you have practically every style of beer available here in the US, with new styles popping up seemingly ever other day with the fun and experimentation that has been going on with American breweries since the beer renaissance that started hitting its stride in the 90s. There’s a lot of innovation and just downright fun the breweries here are having, not being married to tradition, that it’s a beer drinker’s paradise. About the only styles of beer I haven’t quite found world-class renditions of here in the US are the unflavored Belgian lambic blends – the gueuzes – and the Berliner weisse (another type of soured beer, though Wikipedia states there are domestic versions of it). Although there are so many hundreds of breweries here, that I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has a good version of it that I simply haven’t come across yet. If I go to the beer store, 90% of the time I’m buying American beer. The times I’m not, it’s for a particular Belgian, a Guinness (it’s a light-flavored stout, but I love it), or the occasional German beer, like the Ayinger Celebrator.