Beer Hipsters

[GuingesRock]

What is a beer hipster like? Does anyone know one? I'm seeing more and more of them. Almost in swarms now. I find them fascinating. Should we be buying Blundstones and growing beards? I think there might be different breeds, urban and rural.

Beer Hipsters

If there is one type of person everyone can agree deserves the most blame for “ruining” the craft beer landscape, it’s hipsters. They’re seemingly everywhere, while being nowhere in particular. They are as weird and scary as mimes or clowns or even climes (clowns that don’t talk), but they dress like the characters of Downton Abbey. They assert their independence by flocking in droves to the same place their friends “discovered” last week, which they are happy to tell you was “before it was cool”—even though you’ve been going there for years.

And worst of all, they don’t even like what they’re drinking! They’re just doing it to be “ironic.”

Problem is, practically no one ever self-identifies as a hipster. We can’t even seem to agree as to what exactly a beer hipster is! One beer fan’s hipster is another’s college student, and a third’s Amish elder. Half of the time “hipsters” are those who don’t drink craft beer at all (only PBR, from a can of course), and the other half of the time they drink it exclusively!

The hipster seems to just represent anything that people deem odd, or is a label to slap on someone trying a bit too hard to be unique. But don’t we all do that in our own ways?

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[GuingesRock]

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[BAbrewing]

The 2nd guy actually looks like a normal dude.

[donking]

I see a beer hipster as someone who "secretly" loves crappy commercial beers like coors light just as much as a good craft beer. They choose to pay a lot more for a beer they don't appreciate that much so that they look superior to other people. Which is worse? a guy who will tell you that he drank Bud all his life and that is the only beer he will drink, or a hipster that shows off with a saffron quadruple rainbow IPA.

A good thing those hipsters did is buying craft beer instead of the crappy commercial beers which is giving us a better choice as consumers when we want to buy a good beer at the store, so you can't really hate those hipsters because of that hehe.

[GuingesRock]

Yes! Hipsters are a driving force for craft beer. That's what sparked my interest. The more the merrier I say.

The 2nd guy actually looks like a normal dude.

But! The red plastic watch? What’s that he has his hand tucked into on his belt? It’s a very special belt thing for holding what? That’s an expensive English hat, is it tweed? The bracelet? The piercings? The hand position on the belt? The gaudy rings on his fingers. That’s a hipster or I’ll eat my hat

[GAM]

That's a Keiff skull ring and I want one.

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[CorneliusAlphonse]

im hipster

[GuingesRock]

im hipster

Liam, You wouldn't know what the thing on the belt is? I'm still thinking of becoming a hipster. I need a new project. Might need some lessons some time. I was thinking of a different version though, although it looks like there is quite a bit of scope for imagination.

[Albert]

My general rule of thumb is that someone is a hipster if:
they have a beard and wear plaid, but don't know how to operate a chainsaw and only know the word "peavey" as a brand of musical equipment.

[mcgster]

Honestly, i don't think being a hipster has anything at all to do with how people dress. Its a group of well-off people who like to be seen as going against current trends and making their own culture, they have a unique style of dressing but that is about all that can be said about it. Well, i guess they do wear an inordinate amount of skinny jeans. The joke used to be that a hipster would never self identify as being a hipster because then they wouldn't be unique.

All kinds of people have beards and wear plaid and aren't hipsters, all kinds of people wear blundstones and aren't hipsters etc etc

For the record, I have a beard, wear plaid almost exclusively, and love my blundstones (honestly the most comfortable boot you will but and better quality than anything i have ever owned). I know my way around a chainsaw, split my own firewood, and do just about every type of renovation solo though so i guess that spares me from Alberts definition lol

[Albert]

...Well, i guess they do wear an inordinate amount of skinny jeans. The joke used to be that a hipster would never self identify as being a hipster because then they wouldn't be unique.

nothing hipsters hate worse than being labeled hipsters too...not that theres anyyhing wrong with that

and ya skinny jeans fit very well under my chainsaw pants!

...For the record, I have a beard, wear plaid almost exclusively, and love my blundstones (honestly the most comfortable boot you will but and better quality than anything i have ever owned). I know my way around a chainsaw, split my own firewood, and do just about every type of renovation solo though so i guess that spares me from Alberts definition lol

[Buccaneer]

For the record, I have a beard, wear plaid almost exclusively, and love my blundstones (honestly the most comfortable boot you will but and better quality than anything i have ever owned). I know my way around a chainsaw, split my own firewood, and do just about every type of renovation solo though so i guess that spares me from Alberts definition lol

I believe the word for you is "lumbersexual".

[GuingesRock]

Isn't it a bit like Hippies in the 60's? They had a great time with VW vans, "free love", marijuana, rock music. Blundstones and plad shirts are downright boring in comparison. I'm just old enough to remember them. Does anyone have pictures of themselves back then being a Hippy?

[GuingesRock]

My Hay Day was in the 70's. That's me on the far left at a street party in France. I had long hair, bellbottom jeans, platform clogs and a collection of rock albums and singles. I wanted to be different but like the other different people at the time. It would be hard to be different in a different way, rather than a same kind of way as others, because you run the risk of just being weird, unless you are a rock star or something, like Elton and his shades.

[mcgster]

Mark - To me its almost like the opposite of the hippies. The hipsters are really high maintenance, for example, i have a good friend who is beyond a doubt a hipster. He falls into your stereotype of bearded, plaid, skinny jeans and ray bans. However he probably spends an hour a day applying coconut oil to his beard and essential oils. He has a shaving kit (even though he doesn't shave) that he brings to the gym and its full of hair care and beard care products.

[mcgster]

For the record, I have a beard, wear plaid almost exclusively, and love my blundstones (honestly the most comfortable boot you will but and better quality than anything i have ever owned). I know my way around a chainsaw, split my own firewood, and do just about every type of renovation solo though so i guess that spares me from Alberts definition lol

I believe the word for you is "lumbersexual".

Bahaha i heard this term for the first time the other day and laughed. My beard has become pretty unruly these days and i'm constantly getting grief to shave it so from now i'm on just going to say its part of my lumbersexuality.

[Lucas]

One time on a student rating of instruction I was told that I should "stop acting like a hipster with no possessions and get some assets". I ride my bike everywhere and must have mentioned in class that I still rent my living space. I don't think students know what the payscale for part-time instructors is like at Dalhousie (or probably anywhere in Canada, for that matter).

[BAbrewing]

Isn't a hipster just a clean hippy?

[GuingesRock]

Looking through my competition swag. I might have the makings of a hipster. I'd have to grow a beard. I'd maybe get one of those English country gentleman's hats when I'm in England. What else? don't mention Blundstones please ...you'll put me off. Sounds from Mark like the beard is a lot of maintenance, fussing and namby pambying. Would stubble work? Do you have to get piercings?

I think those sunglasses might be worth a lot! I don't see them on the Beau's site, they are hard to come by, only a few were made. You have to get them by winning the Beau's competition ...special special. For Jewlery, could I wear medals?

How am I doing? Maybe there's no hope here.

Does it help to actually know about craft beer? I'm good with a chain saw and an axe too, but could keep quiet about that, unless I'm actually drinking the beer, then I can't keep quiet about anything Can you get thrown out for something like that?

Seems like there's a bit of a lumbar jack flavour to hipsterism. Lady Chatterly's lover maybe.

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[KMcK]

im hipster

Dude, that's like saying you're a member of Fight Club.

[GuingesRock]

I was told I'm too old to be a hipster

Never mind. I'll get over it.

Waiting at airport. Waiting at airport. Waiting at airport.

[gordonsbeachbrewer]

Dunno where i fit, my blundstones are worn through to the steel toes from work and my plaid s covered in caulking paint and sawdust, but i do have those things