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that would be, for us waist conscious pale-blue-collar demographic on the coast then: a type of E-lite Bitters.

I see exactly what you mean. Thanks.

so, better bitters is better than bitter beers?

or

bitter beers is more bitter than better bitters?

-confused here in Bay area

OK, John, I have to admit that made me laugh out loud. I'm not even going to try to top it.

Exactly, Anon! Now you're in the spirit of things! And Michelle Obama obviously hates America too much to drink a domestic. She probably goes to "Old Chicago" purely to order from the Beer World Tour Menu!

Jim: Man, I know I'm old. I don't linger at The Replay. But every now and again, a band plays that I like. And refuse to let the kids have all the fun.

First off, Joel, you're an adult now. One with a real job. Stop hanging out in college bars. You don't know it (apparently), so I'll tell you: The 20-something "shaggy-haired hipsters" think you're kind of pathetic.

Don't take too much offense, my balding friend. The peirced and tatted crowd think everyone over the age of 26 or so to be "old" and certainly way too uncool for the room. I get those looks from time to time -- though mostly from kids on public transit (and even in my own office). Like water off a duck's back, I say ...

Or, better, like PBR down the gullet. I refuse to buy into the idea that PRB is "hip" just because the New York Times says it is (or, rather, especially because the NYT says so). It is also rather meaningless that because "kids" drink it, PBR is now "hip." Put aside the faux coolness and what's left: Young people picking a cheap beer out of relative obscurity and pretending that they "discovered" it. Now that's pretty pathetic.

Fact is, young people tend to gravitate toward cheap beer. In Baltimore, it's "Natty Bo," otherwise known as Natural Bohemian. In Pittsburgh, it's Iron City or IC Light. And in my college days, we went even cheaper, buying kegs of "The Beast" -- Milwaukee's Best.

But drinking cheap beer, apparently, is not very cool when you are willing to pay $5 for a triple-shot skinny caramel latte. So, you have to pretend that the swill you're passing around to lube up the ladies is somehow better than it actually is. Thus the "hipifying" of the mill worker's post-shift beer.

So, worry not. Obama pretending that he actually likes -- and would willingly drink in private -- Pabst Blue Ribbon will do him no lasting harm. Unless, of course, you prefer your candidates to actually have taste in beer -- which would make a difference to this once-frequent homebrewer.

Cheers! (literally)

Jim

No way Obama is a beer drinker. He's a latte-drinking, chardonnay-swilling liberal elitist to the core! If the press corps were doing its job, we would know whether Obama has a wine cellar in his Chicago house and what's in it. Mostly foreign wines, I'd wager. We've not yet gotten to the bottom of Obama's snobbery.

You're kidding me, right? People are actually making judgements on him based off of what beer he drinks?

People have blown a lot of things about him up and out of proportion, and I can even see why for some of them (i.e. the Wright controversy), but beer? C'mon if this is really weighing on your mind then you need to take a few days off of politics to put things into perspective.

Dude's gotta be havin' himself a Carling Black Label Supreme this morning.

http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/archive/ca...

Clearly, I have a lot to teach you about elitism.

It's not about how much money or power you have, or whether you want to use that power and money in a fashion that benefits others beside yourself. It's about attitude.

So yes, PBR is cheap. But so is Bud Light, which is the cheap beer of the suburban masses. Hipsters don't want to drink the cheap beer of the suburban masses; they'd rather bring a retro-ironic sensibility to their drinking and so choose the "beer of the working man."

In other words: Elitist.

As a College Student, I believe that the beer of choice for the college crowd is not chosen by taste but by price. PBR is a foul tasting beer, but it is cheap. I don't see how this has any bearing on whether or not the 'working man' drinks PBR or not.

LOL