pbr... the fixed gear beer
12-21-07, 08:39 PM
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pbr... the fixed gear beer
why??
12-21-07, 08:47 PM
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but it's not the cheapest. and it sure as hell isn't the best tasting.
12-21-07, 09:02 PM
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lemme try .....its union made?...its easy to identify with regardless of its irony status..we are champions of the subjective..
personally i don't like pbr, it's a guarenteed hangover
personally i don't like pbr, it's a guarenteed hangover
12-21-07, 09:05 PM
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I don't know if this is just my own weirdness of if others experience the same thing, but PBR (like any type of refreshing beverage) has it's own kinda drunk. It's PBR if it's bar hopping, playing bar sports, and general debauchery. It's microbrew if it's a quieter kinda night. It's bourbon if it's one of those "bad news and I know it and I don't care" kinda nights.
Essentially, no matter how good (or, in the case of PBR, bad) a beer is, you have to go with what fits the occasion.
Essentially, no matter how good (or, in the case of PBR, bad) a beer is, you have to go with what fits the occasion.
12-21-07, 09:10 PM
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man, all the cheap alternatives to pbr in this thread suck. miller light? gross, dude. give me a pbr. or a 40 of malt likker if i'm looking to get faded...
12-21-07, 09:11 PM
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the high life is the champagne of beers and $1.29 for a 32 ouncer.
12-21-07, 09:12 PM
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yeah, that's pretty good, too.
12-21-07, 09:13 PM
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I've never had PBR but whenever my wife and I visit my parents the only option is Coors Light (thanks to that being the only beer my stepdad drinks). That ****'s nasty.
12-21-07, 09:15 PM
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its cheap.
unlike Keystone, it doesnt take like strange water. PBR actually has the taste of beer.
unlike Keystone, it doesnt take like strange water. PBR actually has the taste of beer.
12-21-07, 09:43 PM
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Pabst Blue Ribbon emerged from historically low sales after being adopted by the hipster subculture in Portland, Oregon. Executives of the company had noticed that sales were growing without explanation. Further research found a local Portland bar The Lutz had changed its offering to Pabst after a local beer went off the market. It was found that the local community was made up of a large counterculture along with working class people who had adopted Pabst.[4] The popularity of Pabst has spread, possibly due to this cultural context, and possibly also to a memorable reference in the David Lynch film Blue Velvet, and it is now a popular beer among young people perceived to be hipsters.
Portland started it. But yeah, in Portland and other parts of Oregon it's not even a hipster beer, it's an everyone beer. Absolutely EVERYONE drinks it if they're going to be drinking cheap beer, or maybe High Life maybe... from frat boys to regular joes to hip dudes to bike messengers to your friend's mother. So I wouldn't really even equate it with 'hip' here. But it's weird, I go elsewhere and I can barely find it... it's cheap as hell here too, though Hamms is cheaper sometimes. Out of cheap beers though, Pabst easily a lot of other watery brews. That's not to say I don't prefer a nice microbrew 9 out of 10 times, but sometimes you just don't have that much money. Portland's Best Reserve.
By the way, ask the hipsters of SF: Tecate will be the next 'hip' beer, mark my words.
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I don't know if this is just my own weirdness of if others experience the same thing, but PBR (like any type of refreshing beverage) has it's own kinda drunk. It's PBR if it's bar hopping, playing bar sports, and general debauchery. It's microbrew if it's a quieter kinda night. It's bourbon if it's one of those "bad news and I know it and I don't care" kinda nights.
Essentially, no matter how good (or, in the case of PBR, bad) a beer is, you have to go with what fits the occasion.
Essentially, no matter how good (or, in the case of PBR, bad) a beer is, you have to go with what fits the occasion.
12-21-07, 09:49 PM
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pabst... the grunge of beers?
12-21-07, 10:00 PM
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Man, the two worst drunks of my life were on franzia. Each year my cycling friends and I do the "Tour de Franzia" in conjunction with the Tour de France. Each stage is a house and a box...when it's gone, you cycle to the next one. Spandex is mandatory.
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