'Quintessentially American' Hipster Beer Company Sold to Russian Firm
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Time to set up a committee on Un-American beverages.
[URL]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/19/pbr-russian_n_5849262.html?&ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067[/URL]
[QUOTE]Pabst Blue Ribbon is defecting to Russia.
The 170-year-old Milwaukee brewery known for its acronymic hipster beer announced on Thursday night that it was sold to Moscow-based Oasis Beverages, a six-year-old beer and soda firm that [URL="http://www.oasisdrinks.com/"]operates[/URL] in Kazakhstan, Belarus and Ukraine.
“Pabst Blue Ribbon is the quintessential American brand -- it represents individualism, egalitarianism and freedom of expression -- all the things that make this country great,” Eugene Kashper, the chairman of Oasis, said in a [URL="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140918006358/en/Beer-Entrepreneur-Eugene-Kashper-Acquire-Pabst-Brewing#.VBwiCitYTGx"]statement[/URL]. “The opportunity to work with the company’s treasure trove of iconic brands, some of which I started my career selling, is a dream come true.”[/QUOTE]
Hipsters have no allegiance anyways
[QUOTE=proboardslol;46023740]Hipsters have no allegiance anyways[/QUOTE]I'm into this oligarchy now, it's pretty obscure.
Why is PBR considered a hipster beer? It's always seemed like more of a hick beer to me.
I work in a liquor store, I can confirm its hick beer.
[QUOTE=Explosions;46023760]Why is PBR considered a hipster beer? It's always seemed like more of a hick beer to me.[/QUOTE]
Cause hipsters drink it cause it's not like miller or anything like that
edit: though real hipsters brew their own gluten free non gmo beer
Russia needs competition in the "cheap and shitty beer" market anyways.
PBR is outside hose water beer.
[QUOTE=Explosions;46023760]Why is PBR considered a hipster beer? It's always seemed like more of a hick beer to me.[/QUOTE]
Because it's cheap. It tastes okay considering how cheap it is.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;46023907]Because it's cheap. It tastes okay considering how cheap it is.[/QUOTE]
I'm not the biggest fan of PBR but for the price I'd drink it any day over Coors or something like that
Nothing hipster about it. It's the sort of thing rednecks drink when they want to pretend they're higher class rednecks.
Oh god now Lone Star Beer is even less Texan.
Fuck PBR, it actually doesn't taste that bad but for some reason it fills you up extremely quick. After two it feels like my stomach's full and I can't drink anymore.
I wonder how American beers taste like compared to ours.
[QUOTE=BananaMed;46024248]I wonder how American beers taste like compared to ours.[/QUOTE]
piss in a rusty bucket and water it down a little
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[QUOTE=Derpmeifter;46024314]piss in a rusty bucket and water it down a little[/QUOTE]
very clearly never had a local brew Or a goose island. American beer holds up very well
So the vibe I'm getting here is that pabst is basically the white lightning of american beers. Is this incorrect?
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;46024433]very clearly never had a local brew Or a goose island. American beer holds up very well[/QUOTE]
Spotted Cow.
Can never go back now.
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[QUOTE=n0cturni;46024690]So the vibe I'm getting here is that pabst is basically the white lightning of american beers. Is this incorrect?[/QUOTE]
The "White lightening" of alcohol beverages is Karkov Vodka - the official drink of high schoolers. As for beers, its pretty debatable
[QUOTE=God of Ashes;46024433]very clearly never had a local brew Or a goose island. American beer holds up very well[/QUOTE]
There's two kinds of American brews. There's the good (usually small time breweries and home brewers.), the decent (expensive or just semi-large breweries, people new to home brewing often fall somewhere near here), and the there's PBR/Keystone/Bud/Coors territory. We don't go to the last one. I'm pretty sure keystone is only still sold because hicks and frats buy it.
[editline]19th September 2014[/editline]
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The "White lightening" of alcohol beverages is Karkov Vodka - the official drink of high schoolers. As for beers, its pretty debatable[/QUOTE]
Or Smirnov. Eugh.
[QUOTE=Explosions;46023760]Why is PBR considered a hipster beer? It's always seemed like more of a hick beer to me.[/QUOTE]
It's hipster because it used to be a very blue collar beer, something for real hard-working Americans (especially after WWII,) because it was cheap and it had that "real American" kinda marketing going for it. Hipsters would drink it ironically to lampoon those values. So much so, that it became more associated with being hipster than the original conservative America image it used to represent.
Long story short, PBR is the post-ironic beer.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;46023804]Cause hipsters drink it cause it's not like miller or anything like that
edit: though real hipsters brew their own gluten free non gmo beer[/QUOTE]
All the hipsters in Massachusetts switched to Yuengling when it first came here because no one had ever heard of it.
Kind of reminds me how most bourbon distilleries, the most American of spirits, are owned by foerign multinational companies. Diageo, a British company, and Japanese company Suntory own the most popular and best-selling bourbons on the market. :v:
[QUOTE=Code3Response;46024718]Spotted Cow.
Can never go back now.[/QUOTE]
Spotted cow is god tier.
[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;46024942]All the hipsters in Massachusetts switched to Yuengling when it first came here because no one had ever heard of it.
Kind of reminds me how most bourbon distilleries, the most American of spirits, are owned by foerign multinational companies. Diageo, a British company, and Japanese company Suntory own the most popular and best-selling bourbons on the market. :v:[/QUOTE]
Yuengling is very good, though. It's been a big deal here in Pennsylvania for a long time. I know it's my favorite session beer.
Also, Japan is coming out with some good whiskeys these days. Don't knock it till you try it.
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;46025050]Yuengling is very good, though. It's been a big deal here in Pennsylvania for a long time. I know it's my favorite session beer.
Also, Japan is coming out with some good whiskeys these days. Don't knock it till you try it.[/QUOTE]
their dark beer is like a dessert
Yeah, they have some very nice porters.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;46023804]Cause hipsters drink it cause it's not like miller or anything like that
edit: though real hipsters brew their own gluten free non gmo beer[/QUOTE]
Gluteen free
[QUOTE=BananaMed;46024248]I wonder how American beers taste like compared to ours.[/QUOTE]
Depends on which American beer you buy. The really huge supergiants tend to brew up generic pisswater which exists solely to get rednecks and partiers drunk, but you can find plenty of all-American brewskis that are actually worth drinking.
i consider samuel adams and yuengling that 'middle ground' beer, typically my go to brands. if I'm on a budget, i buy rolling rock. fuck pabst. it tastes like cow piss.
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