Pabst Beer Loves SEPTA....

**mixiboi** · 08-26-2012, 12:18 AM

After their love affair with Spring Gaden Station for several years....They now invaded every station that a Hipster would see:

They call it art, but what do you think? How do you feel about this beer? How do you feel about the ads? SEPTA does gotta eat....

**BarryG** · 08-26-2012, 09:05 AM

PBR was only cool when they weren't trying to be cool. Hasn't everyone moved onto Natty Bo anyway?

**eldondre** · 08-26-2012, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by BarryG

PBR was only cool when they weren't trying to be cool. Hasn't everyone moved onto Natty Bo anyway?

PBR owns natty boh as well so I guess that depends on whether they've decided it's time for hipsters to move on to their other products

**BarryG** · 08-26-2012, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by eldondre

PBR owns natty boh as well so I guess that depends on whether they've decided it's time for hipsters to move on to their other products

Haha didn't realize that. Perfect.

**thoth** · 08-26-2012, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by eldondre

PBR owns natty boh as well so I guess that depends on whether they've decided it's time for hipsters to move on to their other products

Natty Bo was on the way to unseating PBR as the default hipster beer, but somehow Miller High Life is becoming more of a go to than either, don't ask me why.

The rising star is Genesee now. They're smaller, more independent-seeming (although they own a bunch of sub-brands like Dundee "Honey Brown" Brewing Co) and are miraculously even cheaper than any of the aforementioned brands. $10 30packs. I don't know how they do it. They've probably got one of those Waterworld urine recycling units.

**eldondre** · 08-26-2012, 07:37 PM

Originally Posted by thoth

Natty Bo was on the way to unseating PBR as the default hipster beer, but somehow Miller High Life is becoming more of a go to than either, don't ask me why.

The rising star is Genesee now. They're smaller, more independent-seeming (although they own a bunch of sub-brands like Dundee "Honey Brown" Brewing Co) and are miraculously even cheaper than any of the aforementioned brands. $10 30packs. I don't know how they do it. They've probably got one of those Waterworld urine recycling units.

Hipsters are a joke. Manipulated by the very system they seem to reject. God forbid they drink an actual independent like yuengling or strain. Genny at least still brews beer (including Narragansett) .

**OffenseTaken** · 08-26-2012, 08:13 PM

Originally Posted by eldondre

Hipsters are a joke. Manipulated by the very system they seem to reject. God forbid they drink an actual independent like yuengling or strain. Genny at least still brews beer (including Narragansett) .

There have been challengers, but PBR has had awesome staying power among hipsters. Frat boys—always the early adapters of hipster trends, despite what each group may say about the other—glommed onto PBR drinking with a passion when I was still an undergrad in the mid-2000's. It should therefore have gone the way of Wilco and trucker caps; yet here we are in 2012, and at Bob & Barbara's on a Friday night, every Steve Urkel glasses–wearing, forearm-tattooed Cinema Studies major is drinking PBR with a shot of Jim Beam. Half of those ****ers weren't even in junior high school when Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out.

**BarryG** · 08-26-2012, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by OffenseTaken

There have been challengers, but PBR has had awesome staying power among hipsters. Frat boys—always the early adapters of hipster trends, despite what each group may say about the other—glommed onto PBR drinking with a passion when I was still an undergrad in the mid-2000's. It should therefore have gone the way of Wilco and trucker caps; yet here we are in 2012, and at Bob & Barbara's on a Friday night, every Steve Urkel glasses–wearing, forearm-tattooed Cinema Studies major is drinking PBR with a shot of Jim Beam. Half of those ****ers weren't even in junior high school when Yankee Hotel Foxtrot came out.

B&B is a bit of a special case as it is a PBR themed bar, and was before PBR was cool. I don't drink PBR usually but I will there.

Also PBR always had a toehold in the frat boy market simply due to cost, drinkability and availability.

**PASnow** · 08-26-2012, 08:33 PM

Funny PBR article. Basically a few years ago (somehow) a few rich kids saw the beer becoming popular in the underground. So they asked their billionaire dad to buy the company for them??!

Keeping Pabst Blue Ribbon Cool - Businessweek

I always feel like Pabst drinkers need a good Tyler Durdening.

**mixiboi** · 08-26-2012, 08:35 PM

So Mitt Romney should be drinking Pabst??

**thoth** · 08-26-2012, 08:36 PM

Ganny's have also been hitting Philly in a big way. I really think for most people it's more about cost than seeming cool or anything, it's not a coincidence that you can get PBR anywhere and it's like $1 less than Bud et al. But who knows for some of these dudes. It's translated into expensive PBR/MHL logofied bicycle messenger bags and tattoos etc, so there is some level of fashion involved.

Anyway, hipsters also help drive the demand for craft brews in the city, so it's not all bad.

Oh and RE: Pabst having any legitimacy as a non BMC brewery:

"The beers are brewed through a contract with MillerCoors, according to Pabst's specifications, many at factories once owned by Pabst."

**PASnow** · 08-26-2012, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by thoth

$10 30packs. I don't know how they do it.

Are you saying 30 packs of Gennessee are $10?! Damn, now you're speaking my language!

**PhilaCap** · 08-26-2012, 09:00 PM

ha ha... branding

**thoth** · 08-26-2012, 09:07 PM

Originally Posted by PASnow

Are you saying 30 packs of Gennessee are $10?! Damn, now you're speaking my language!

There's a rebate coupon that comes with cases that can theoretically get 30 packs down to 8 dollars. Of course it depends where you buy and local taxes, but it's possible. I really don't understand how you're even making a profit at that point, but whatever people will drink it. FWIW, I really don't think the cream ale is all that bad.

**PASnow** · 08-26-2012, 09:31 PM

Originally Posted by thoth

FWIW, I really don't think the cream ale is all that bad.

Ugghh, that was pretty much the first booze I ever drank. We stole it out of my parents basement in 8th grade & ughh it was disgusting. I think it was still warm, a bad day. My Dad always had that stuff around, though he didn't really drink it much. I think it was the same case of beer all growing up.

**thoth** · 08-26-2012, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by PASnow

Ugghh, that was pretty much the first booze I ever drank. We stole it out of my parents basement in 8th grade & ughh it was disgusting. I think it was still warm, a bad day. My Dad always had that stuff around, though he didn't really drink it much. I think it was the same case of beer all growing up.

Haha my Dad always recalled finding his near-teetotalling father's perpetual stash of Reading back when he was in middle school. Drank as much warm beer as he could before retching it all back up. The "Reading" logo was bought and reused by a new, essentially unrelated micro-brewery, but he won't go near it. Too many bad memories.

**eldondre** · 08-26-2012, 10:29 PM

a review of genny cream ale

It has a bit more flavor than the average pale lager. There's some toasty / carmel flavor in there. A little hops bite. But this weird metallic taste sticks to my lips. Goes down plenty smooth.

As the beer warms, the flavors become increasingly unpleasant and the mouthfeel goes from decent to wholly undesirable.

It's kind of unpleasant to drink, smells a little off, tastes unusual and frankly uncomfortable with the metal flavors. BUT, it's a 55 cents per 12 oz and 5.1% abv.

It's not a craft beer, not a session beer. This is a pounder beer. This is a paper sack on the bus beer. This is a sneak it into the baseball game in a sock beer. This is a shooting clay piegons in my back yard out in the country beer.

Genesee Cream Ale - Genesee Brewing Co. / Dundee Brewing Co. - Rochester, NY - BeerAdvocate
for the record, I've had yard's in a paper sack on the bus.

Originally Posted by thoth

Anyway, hipsters also help drive the demand for craft brews in the city, so it's not all bad.

it's probably the other way around since the craft movement predates hipsters (at least, the hipster followers of today). that is to say, Philadelphia as a beer town has a good influence on them. the same applies to frat boys, etc.

**radiocolin** · 08-26-2012, 11:53 PM

I drink PBR because it's $8.99 for a 12 pack and I think it tastes better than Miller Lite, my former go-to beer.

Sometimes you don't want quintuple-hopped beer.

**eldondre** · 08-27-2012, 07:42 AM

Originally Posted by radiocolin

I drink PBR because it's $8.99 for a 12 pack and I think it tastes better than Miller Lite, my former go-to beer.

Sometimes you don't want quintuple-hopped beer.

not every craft brew is super hoppy, though I do think that too many are.

Clear light cold color. Poured one finger of pillowy white head. Left some pretty decent lacing as the head vanished.

Bready malt that followed with some peppery and floral hops.

Light bitter hops hit the palate first, and then mellow out as the malt backbone supports. Not a whole lot going on, but very unoffensive.

Very smooth and crisp brew. Light in body, but with plenty of substance. Very clean finish.

Nothing incredibly extravagant about this kolsch, but it is an incredibly refreshing beer that I look forward to having every summer.

Lancaster Kölsch - Lancaster Brewing Company - Lancaster, PA - BeerAdvocate

when I was a young un, people drank lager (although I don't think lager is quite the same as it used to be since getting bigger). that said, if genny cream is $9 for 30 and PBR is $9 for 12, one would guess genny cream is unbelievable cheap due to incredibly low quality ingredients. since PBR the brewery went bankrupty even when it was cheap, and PBR the contract brewed miller lite stand in has done well, it truly is all about marketing.