Least convincing / most lol-worthy aspect of The Weeknd's quick rise to Internet fame

red stripe is probably more expensive than it's worth but it's necessary in hot weather. i actually had some modelo especial cans recently and they were surprisingly good--that would be a nice choice for hipsters.

i had some narragansett this weekend. you cant get it in nyc really but its all over ne it seems like.

yeah i think modelo is as a hipster beer now. red stripe you can get for like 6.99 a six-pack here which seems about right for the quality. i drink a lot of it. i think yeungling and rolling rock count as hipster beers too.

xxp: the guy who brought it was all "this is 2nd half beer" and proceeded to drink practically the entire Victory variety pack I had bought

I will admit that hot weather makes a lot of those super light beers make a hell of a lot more sense; going to Puerto Rico taught me to really, really appreciate Coors Light.

it does not explain why Miamians drink Heineken.

Heineken is all right but Amstel is much, much better.

what the hell is wrong with you internet people

xxp: the guy who brought it was all "this is 2nd half beer" and proceeded to drink practically the entire Victory variety pack I had bought

aww that's not classy!

i had some narragansett this weekend. you cant get it in nyc really but its all over ne it seems like.

skimmed this as "i had some narransraggett this weekend"

Life would be so much nicer if everyone drank gin and tonics.

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^ http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=505 xp

ah shit

i dunno fellas, i've had some music-venues gin and tonics that i wouldn't wish on you

gin-based drinks in general are the hallmark of civilization

especially the Last Word

music venue gin and tonics are generally http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_gin quality imo

Is Colt 45 just an LA Hipster thing?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/96113350@N00/5216784077/

ack!

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i mainly know Colt 45 from like Chuck D et al's argument about its high alcohol content and aggressive marketing to the black community, so when i saw so-called "enlightened" white NYC hipsters so quick to throw money at them, I was pretty smh

I drink Heineken in Miami because the fat can stays cold longer.

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/countygrind/2011/03/colt_45_blast_snoop_dogg.php

oh... oh no

i mainly know colt 45 from being 13 years old

There was the Drake cosign,

is this drake the writer?

Colt 45 is big w/ my friends in Portland.

xpost I believe it was the type of dragon, known as "The Drake"

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Drake

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everybody's looking forward to the weeknd, weeknd

Don't really feel on-board with the "they all dress/drink the same!" aspect of the skewering of hipsters (of the williamsburg or shoreditch varieties) ITT. Fashion trends are like music styles: when you're not into it you become blind to nuances and apt to assume generalisations are 100% correct.

otm..."they think they're different but they're all the same" is like the 1+1 fucking equals TWO!!! of hipster discussion

and in fact i am often surprised by how many diff types of hipster there are...less than noticing total uniformity anyway. there are all sorts of older trends, mod, metaller, etc etc etc threaded through the whole hipster thing.

that plus the fact that people, even ones i've never met, tend to be different from each other due to having minds/beliefs etc.

and in fact i am often surprised by how many diff types of hipster there are!

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.

Don't know why I added an exclamation mark to yr quote ronan.

ime miller high life was equivalent in terms of test, value, and cache, esp after they redesigned the bottle. the brand that hipsters really missed on is regular coors, which costs about the same and tests much much better.

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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

lmao @ googleproofing of k*l*ans

craft beers in general are huge 'hipster beers' in chicago. you cant throw a rock right now w/out hitting some bearded dude in flannel who will make pronouncements abt what kinds of craft beers are worth your time & how he's making his own beer etc etc etc in this city. i think these dudes just wish they lived in portland

i mean PBR is still a thing but thats like, for 20 yr olds. by the time u have a job & have started working at groupon, which is singlehandedly employing chicago's hipsters and by extension keeping revolution, half acre and metropolitan brewing in business, they prefer to sip beers like a fine wine

im not immune although i cant really afford to be

isn't liking nice ales just like...a pretty normal thing to do for any middle class person or upwards?

it's not just hipster, is kinda like liking football or something surely?

^^never been to the u.s.

the states had no craft beer culture until up into the 80s & even then it was pretty heavily niche-ified. it wasnt til the past 5-10 years that this shit really started growing

i think it had something to do w/ prohibition, like in the 20s all the craft brewers went out of business & only the huge co's could afford to keep going by putting barley production towards ... i dont know what, i feel like i heard some drunk beardo tell me this at a party so its kinda spotty

nah not everyone is into microbrewery or whatever here but it doesn't feel exclusively hipster either. don't old men in the us like microbrewed ales?

x-post ah i see...that kinda answers my question.

ireland is quite weird like this, literally zero craft beer culture, i only started drinking ale when i moved to london. my irish friends hate it.

i think its funny max was the one who brought up rolling rock, my parents arent big beer drinkers but on the occasion my mom wants one with her burger or whatever in the summer she buys rolling rock, so i associate that beer w/ all parental ephemera from my childhood, like 'graceland' & fleetwood mac

Craft beer (and during summer craft cider) is huge over here and it's definitely an inner-urban middle-class thing, but if it codes "hipster" it does so in a way very different to the Weeknd.

Most people into craft beer here would be going to see local live music, if they're into hipster R&B it'd be Sharon Jones but not the Weeknd. They'd be all about "adult lovemaking" but against the specific sonic trappings.

Whereas the audience for the Weeknd wouldn't invest their hipster energy into the alcohol they drink - probably will drink Coopers Pale, which is a fairly "safe" cheap but respectable beer. More likely to be into pills and dope and spend their discretionary income on that.

Maybe Australia is different in this regard but mostly when I read about overseas hipster trends I recognise them around me as well so i doubt it.

Maybe how deej describes holds true outside the NW, but here microbrews are really a common thing to drink, more centered out yuppies than anything. I've had people who were totally square talk shit about me drinking PBR or High Life and it's just like... I'll drink Mac & Jack or some other micro when I have a few extra bucks, but fuck you, I'm poor.

what's craft beer? microbrews? the guys that make their own stuff on the weekends?

more centered on*

i think what tim describes might be more true where Al is, but yeah in chicago right now i think there's a huge overlap between pabst drinking weeknd listeners & craft-drinking sharon jones listeners -- craft beer is all anybody seems to talk abt any more. part of it is we have all these extremely successful breweries right now that opened up in the last couple years

Yeah, I think that stage happened around here like 20 years ago and now it's just taken for granted as part of the landscape.

Wait, is this discussion really going on on two threads at once? Dear god.

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?)

one thing i dont see many hipsters drink is wine