Wait, is this discussion really going on on two threads at once? Dear god.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:21 (thirteen years ago) link
some hipsters drink whatevers cheap and available, which is often pbr (i think of these as the young music/art types?)some hipsters drink craft beers/microbrews (i think of these as like indie/npr types?)some hipsters drink prohibition-era cocktails with specially-crafted ice cubes (hipster yuppies? rich party-going fashion types?)
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:23 (thirteen years ago) link
one thing i dont see many hipsters drink is wine
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:24 (thirteen years ago) link
coors co. supports extreme right wing politics & i remember flyers the black student org put out on my campus about how u shouldnt buy coors, k*l*ans, blue moon, etc because the guy who runs the company throws millions of dollars at destroying affirmative action
― timbo slice (D-40), Monday, April 4, 2011 7:49 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i did this on the truth bombs thread but every big beer co. supports right wing politics as does almost every big company in general; consign yrself to drinking shitty microbrews i guess. also when pete coors ran for senate he supported civil unions which by itself put him a few levels below straight-up hatemonger.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost possibly because being a wine connoisseur takes a shitload more time/money/attention-to-detail.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:27 (thirteen years ago) link
confused about how not buying the big beer brands consigns me to 'shitty microbrews'
― timbo slice (D-40), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Wine makes me sick and I don't even kinda like the taste of it.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah wtf xp
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah im just sort of surprised, there are a lot of nyc hipsters with tons of money and an affection for "artisan"/"handmade"/"terroir" type-stuff that wine basically invented, youd think theyd be all over it. though here in new york it may just be that you cant make wine out of long island grapes in an old bushwick warehouse?
xxp
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:29 (thirteen years ago) link
it seems to me that the recent explosion in craft brew stuff sorta took that space anyway
― timbo slice (D-40), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
which maybe that was your point
My taste in alcohol is pretty butch tbh. If I had my way, I'd drink nothing but ale and scotch.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:30 (thirteen years ago) link
wine is a man's drink rev dont get it twisted
unless yr drinking like spritzers or bubbly or w/e
― timbo slice (D-40), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, actually now that I think of it, bubbly is pretty much the only wine I can handle.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like wine education is still pretty inaccessible.
also wine comes in inconvenient formats and is hard to drink in hectic bars and stuff.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
sry i called microbrews "shitty" that was disingenuous of me.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:34 (thirteen years ago) link
think the lack of wine is cos like.....does anyone get loaded up on wine when going out doing drugs or whatev? like you might drink wine at 7am on an all nighter for want of something else, or at dinner beforehand, but if it's long sessions then always gonna be beer or spirits, at least that's how it appeared IN MY DAY
― Packie Bonner (Local Garda), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes. Even in gay-hipster world - which for obv reasons should be even more intensely uniform - you get guys in wifebeaters + flannel shirts with fop-tops and five day growth hanging out with shiny-point-shoes bryl-creamed little princes hanging out with tanned tennis-ready preppy types and these are all clearly within the venn diagram "gay hipster" but on any other sensible reading ought to have nothing to do with one another.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:49 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark
yeah it's like, how can you possibly generalise tracks that simultaneously feature grime whine, baltimore breaks, egregious r&b samples, chillwave synths and cowbell. there must be all manner of fascinating nuances at play.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL yes but I'm not saying there isn't some kind of underlying sensibility where all these things co-exist, or that the differences make any one of these aesthetic choices (let alone all of them) desirable. I just think the "they all sound the same" line is wrong.
But you know "it all sounds the same" is the one criticism I would not make of avant-frankenstep. The opposite is maybe the bigger problem.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
think the lack of wine is cos like.....does anyone get loaded up on wine when going out doing drugs or whatev?
yes
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 07:11 (thirteen years ago) link
10m xposts - i've always equated PBR here with Red Stripe in UK, mainly because that's everyone drank at gigs when I was a student.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
There's a subset of professional/hipster cross types (e.g. lawyers I know who are into post-dubstep) who drink connoisseur wine but you need to have $$$. Actually these people would be well into the weeknd.
There's also a subset of students who drink goon (cheap wine from a box) but although these people aren't necessarily poor they're usually not hipsters.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 08:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I made the mistake of fucking around with box wine saturday night. :(
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost possibly because being a wine connoisseur takes a shitload more time/money/attention-to-detail.― Tim F, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 1:27 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
― Tim F, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 1:27 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark
idk up to a point... it takes more attention to detail because unlike 'appreciating craft beers' wine connoisseurship is an actual thing
― history mayne, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:11 (thirteen years ago) link
er...think craft beers is a thing...have you ever been to a craft beer shop? pretty sure there is a lot of knowledge there, the people that work in them are mega serious about it.
― Packie Bonner (Local Garda), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i know they are
― history mayne, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
re: pbr
4) as an added bonus it's a brand with a strong tradition that can be "reclaimed"
This is definitely a big part of it in my opinion, its not any good but it has a tradition - feel like there's more regional ones also - Iron City?
― colby, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Rainier fits that niche around here, but Rainier is ghastly.
― banjee trillness (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:35 (thirteen years ago) link
and yuengling, as mentioned upthread
rheingold tried to make a hipster comeback along these lines (somebody bought the brand, which had become defunct) but i don't think it really took
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes but Yuengling is way more drinkable than pbr or iron city!
― colby, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 09:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry to derail, but I'm increasingly under the impression more people would give this act the time of day if it wasn't called The Weeknd.
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:18 (thirteen years ago) link
My half-hearted reservations stem from two things:
1. There are already three bands called Weekend or The Weekend in my record collection2. The swearing
PBR is not available to hipsters in Toronto. Traditionally, they drink Labatt 50, though IPAs are coming back into style.
― Odult Ariented Rock (Ówen P.), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 11:56 (thirteen years ago) link
agreed
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
http://parallax-view.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/weekend.jpg
― dayo, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
It breaks my heart that there are a load of people with valuable perspectives on alcohol that are avoiding this thread because they think it's just a load of critics shouting at one another.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
so what I've learned from this thread is that ppl like drinking more than the weeknd
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
drinking is the weekend
― Packie Bonner (Local Garda), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:45 (thirteen years ago) link
The red wine-drinking hipster is totally a thing by the way.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:47 (thirteen years ago) link
a hipster's just a drunk friend you haven't met
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:55 (thirteen years ago) link
if you want to use the word "hipster" as basically a synonym for "snob", I think u will quickly discover that there is a nearly infinite variety of hipsters
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:56 (thirteen years ago) link
mustard hipster
― dayo, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I just wanted to point out that the intersection between "hipster" and "classical musician" is packed full of wine drinkers, especially amongst the women. Also mad gin and whiskey drinks.
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
well you'd need to be a bit mad to make a drink with gin and whiskey..
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:18 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― whelping at his sandpapery best (DJP), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
think the lack of wine is cos like.....does anyone get loaded up on wine when going out doing drugs or whatev?yes― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:11 AM (6 hours ago)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:11 AM (6 hours ago)
waht
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Mixin' up a little Bombay Sapphire and Johnny Walker Black.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 14:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I have no idea who Weeknd are, but I love this thread. I noticed in Oklahoma all hipsters drink PBR or craft beers. And recently in Austin I was surprised at how many people were drinking PBR. I mostly drink wine or whiskey or Scotch.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
i still suspect that craft beers are a bigger thing amongst ppl who also happen to drain PBR cans in the states & maybe its a midwest thing
― timbo slice (D-40), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
what does gbx's gf drink??
i have all the time in the world for craft beers
― colby, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 06:10 (thirteen years ago) link