Seems like a lot of dudes operate under the misapprehension that if they're spotted using a product that doesn't reek of motor oil or have an X-TREME font splayed across its packaging that they'll spontaneously turn into an actual woman.
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
Man if it were that easy
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
white claw tastes fucking disgusting though
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:39 (five years ago) link
It says 'hard seltzer' on the can, your balls are golden.
― pomenitul, Friday, 16 August 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
true, nominal hardness in a product is a get-out-of-jail-free card
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
I never thought it was particularly marketed to men
at least not in the way MIKES HARD LEMONADE was
don't think it has much to do with the packaging (I think most of these people would be embarrassed to drink anything with a skull on it) but rather the perception that if you're drinking something alcoholic in a can it's gotta be beer
― frogbs, Friday, 16 August 2019 14:48 (five years ago) link
it's definitely marketed to men, they just seeded the Internet with memes instead of making obnoxious ads
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 16 August 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
did they really though
i'd totally buy that they paid the ain't no laws when you're drinkin claws guy, singlehandedly giving millions of dudebros permission to semi ironically drink a Claw
― frogbs, Friday, 16 August 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
wait i thought white claw was clearly marketed to women? nothing says "ladies" like unsweetened fruity selzer with booze i have even seen stupid memes about it being for "hot girls only" i have ingested exactly 1 white claw and it was ok, unremarkable
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:00 (five years ago) link
Is it 'soft' seltzer, though? I think not!
(Grasping at straws, obv.)
― pomenitul, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
This is reminding me of when all the noize board kept talking about Sparks (the drink).
― Yerac, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
no because soft drinks = nonalcoholic, hard = alcoholic
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
white claw has succeeded in making everyone talk about it, and that makes me want to ingest it less
they're making like a half a billion dollars a year on the stuff, the idea that part of their marketing budget is paying people to generate memes is not a huge stretch
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link
they're okay. I think they work better than all the hard-lemonade stuff (like Smirnoff or whatever) b/c that shit has tons of sugar in it so by the time you're on your 3rd one your stomach feels like it wants to fall out. White Claws don't really taste *good* but they're actually a bit better than putting vodka in a La Croix which I used to do a lot
― frogbs, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:10 (five years ago) link
It's 104 degrees here during happy hour, so whatever I am drinking, I'm drinking a Topo Chico along with it.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:12 (five years ago) link
White Claw is good and it's a huge improvement over the previous Mike's Hard generation of malt beverages that had as much sugar as a mountain dew like if you are outside and don't feel like a beer it's p tasty
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:13 (five years ago) link
I just assume that any sweet/fruity alcoholic beverage automatically codes as 'for the ladies' with dudes because I have gotten an endless stream of flak for the 'girl drinks' in which I've shamelessly indulged throughout my drinking career.
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
hard seltzer is for everyone. it's the "I'm vaguely healthy or whatever but I'm having a drink" drink. Or what you have when you're definitely unable to have another heavy craft brewed ipa.
When you're definitely being healthy but want to get messed up? Well, we have a new contender: https://www.eater.com/2019/8/14/20805323/four-loko-hard-seltzer-sour-white-claw-14-abv
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
Unsweetened soda with vodka or gin drinks have been huge here for a couple of years and are not gendered (in the circles I travel in and in terms of advertising or packaging aesthetics)
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:31 (five years ago) link
It's like the lacroix of alcohol
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:32 (five years ago) link
pretty much!
I've noticed it taking over some of the space of cheap/light beer. So if you're a craft brew person and want to drink a canned non-beer beverage but beer snobbery is keeping you from grabbing a Bud Light, you grab a hard seltzer.
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:36 (five years ago) link
beer snobbery is keeping you from grabbing a Bud Light
Is that the only possible reason.
― pomenitul, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
my little brother thinks he might have a gluten sensitivity, he got drunk on White Claws and said it was the first hangover he ever had that didn't come with a massive stomachache
― frogbs, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:42 (five years ago) link
xp no
some bartending friends who worked an outdoor festival a couple years back that had a white claw sponsorship started pouring a shot of vodka in with a can of white claw over ice. it makes me think that, branding aside, the four loko people may have a market
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
― Amply Drizzled with Pure Luxury (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:26 (twenty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
cider
― phil neville jacket (darraghmac), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
bring back Zima
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:54 (five years ago) link
iirc Zima did come back a few years ago
it basically got laughed off in the late 90s then immediately was eclipsed by Smirnoff Ice and others which were basically the same sort of product
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
in short, Zima has never left us
Zima is very popular in Japan.
― Yerac, Friday, 16 August 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
zima was so grossi like white claw if i am looking to have a drink but not feel full or specifically drink a beer we have them at band practice so they must be cool and also for women ;)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 16 August 2019 15:59 (five years ago) link
I hate hard seltzer a lot
In the universe of drinks like hard seltzer, I either want a regular non-alcoholic seltzer or a giant frilly drink wearing a blouse, preferably blue or green in color that looks like it was made by Guinan
White Claw deez nutz, is basically how I break it down to an extent
I don't think my antipathy is gendered but who knows
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:01 (five years ago) link
yeah I will happily be a girl drink drunk but I have no use for "hard" seltzer/lemonade/wine coolers whatever
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
*rereads "White Claw deez nutz", reconsiders last sentence*
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:03 (five years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
Get a good white wine. Get some seltzer. Chill both. Put them together in a 40/60, 50/50, or 60/40 ratio according to your taste. Add lime if you want. Enjoy, and opt out of capitalistic gender madness.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
i liked white claw the couple of times i've had it, seemed p harmless & inoffensive to me. just tasted like lacroix more or less
my taste in alcohol though has changed a lot, i p much only drink really light cheap beers apart from sours, if i spend any amount of money it's more likely gonna be on a good cider or a if i'm at the right bar then a mixed drink
― marcos, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
i like drinking gin/vodka and soda so having such a thing in a can with a light flavouring like a lacroix is a good thing.
these are not gendered drinks - unless they're gendered by extremely fragile males
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
I find that the alcohol aftertaste combined with the seltzer aftertaste is reminiscent of licking a tire
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
it always surprises me how much flak I continue to get from (male) servers when ordering white wine, strawberry daiquiris, or certain cocktails (anything without gin or whiskey in it, I guess?)
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
the only good spiked seltzer i've had is arctic summer, which is made by the polar people, and even then it depends on the flavor
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
You can pry my mojito out of my cold, dead, properly manicured yet large and masculine hands.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
oh yeah, mojitos are magic
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Friday, August 16, 2019 9:12 AM (five minutes ago)
i like to remember the time i got a bellini (an actual bellini with fresh peaches not the weird slushy versions which are popular) and the server went round the table offering it to every woman seated until i claimed it
― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:19 (five years ago) link
lol bellinis just remind me of Matt DC's hilarious second-hand Usher-vs-bartender story so I can't take them seriously anymore
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
(for those who haven't read it: people who've been on TV whom you've pwned)
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
note that the delivery has not aged well
As the Hugo (look it up -- it's damn delicious) spreads outside of Austria, there seems to be some effort to gender it as a girl drink as well, but f that. I will have two, one for each oversized bruised-knuckled fist.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 16 August 2019 16:29 (five years ago) link
wine spritzers? we already came up with a more sugary faux version back in the bartles & jaymes days
― untuned mass damper (mh), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
oh my god. i had never read the usher story.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 August 2019 16:39 (five years ago) link