Finally, an explanation

originally posted by Kay Bixler:

Yuengling Lager is great beer, always has been.
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It's drinkable.

Maybe there's just too much skunked beer around but I haven't been able to enjoy Yuengling since the early days of undergrad.

Or maybe the darker ones are better than the basic lager.
 
originally posted by Yule Kim:
originally posted by Kay Bixler:

Yuengling Lager is great beer, always has been.
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Gennies are also fantastic. Love Rust Belt Beer.
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Yuengling is the local beer here in central Pennsylvania. I'm happy to drink it.

Genny is from Rochester. Does Rochester count as part of the Rust Belt? It certainly has been hit by the decline in US manufacturing, but I don't associate it with the sort of heavy industry characteristic of the Rust Belt. When I think of Rochester I think of Kodak, Xerox, Bausch and Lomb, etc.
 
Kodak, yeah, they're rocking.

Bausch and Lomb was bought out by private equity and moved to New Jersey.

Xerox, enough said.

Rochester is having a tough time.

Genny wasn't that great 25 years ago, but Great Aunt Mary died and I don't make it up that way anymore.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:

Rochester is having a tough time.
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No argument there. I was interested in what constitutes the Rust Belt. The fading or lost Rochester companies seem different (to me at least) from the steel/auto/glass/metal companies that characterize the Rust Belt.

Genny wasn't that great 25 years ago, but Great Aunt Mary died and I don't make it up that way anymore.
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Genny wasn't that great 35 years ago, either, though Genny Cream Ale was better than the Old Milwaukee that my father used to buy.
 
Genny and I once had a bad, bad, bad night together. So I can't get on board with the Genny praise.

But I'd much rather drink Yuengling Lager than Sam Adams Lager, if we're sticking to supposedly "local" mass-market brews. Though these days, aren't both Pennsylvanian?
 
Unfortunately, I think I rather inconsiderately lumped Rochester in with Buffalo, mainly because all of the Rochester people I know are Bills fans. So, I guess technically Rochester isn't rusting (just surrounded by a lot of rust).

Try the Genny Bock. It's seasonal, and those seasonal beers are always good, right?
 
No, I will not be trying the Genny Bock. I get along with almost all my ex-girlfriends, but not Genny. Genny and I are dunzo. In fact, I might still have the restraining order around here somewhere...
 
originally posted by Scott Kraft:
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gotta disagree, Scott. I was in the EV in the 1980's. Everything was Rolling Rock.

...from the glass-lined tanks of Old Latrobe... to you.
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Definitely available. But not the house tap at Horseshoe or the places on 7th that I can't name anymore, or 2A, which was probably my biggest hang in those days.
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all i remember is vodka at 5am at save the robots.
 
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
Gotta disagree, Scott. I was in the EV in the 1980's. Everything was Rolling Rock.

...from the glass-lined tanks of Old Latrobe... to you.
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McSorley's at Sophie's on East 5th Street circa 1988-1993, $1 a glass. (as well as at, duh, McSorley's). PBR and lots of cheap stuff at Village Idiot when it was on First Avenue. Horseshoe Bar (aka Vazac's) had a pretty broad selection for the time. At Mona's on Avenue B Guinness was the beer of choice. Mushrooms was most suited to King Tut's Wah-Wah Hut.
 
Is that explanation REALLY the explanation for PBR's hipster appeal? I always thought it was just about irony - you're a self-styled sophisticate, so you fetishize the cheapest, trashiest beer you can find. How ironic! Either that or it's about "owning it." If you're exactly the type of person who would be expected to drink cheap, trashy beer, you go for the brand that uses cheap and trashy as a badge of pride and own it, baby.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
Is that explanation REALLY the explanation for PBR's hipster appeal? I always thought it was just about irony - you're a self-styled sophisticate, so you fetishize the cheapest, trashiest beer you can find. How ironic! Either that or it's about "owning it." If you're exactly the type of person who would be expected to drink cheap, trashy beer, you go for the brand that uses cheap and trashy as a badge of pride and own it, baby.
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Like trucker hats and occult facial hair styles.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
And thick black plastic eyeglasses.
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Hey, I wear those.
And yes, what this article fails to point out that hipsters love shit like this. Take something that was formerly in the realm of "white trash" and gutter punks/crusties and recontextualizing it you have a recipe for success. PBR was helped further by the fact that every highschooler worth their salt has drunk gallons of the stuff and you have even hipster cred making or "I was there before it was cool."
 
originally posted by Cory Cartwright:
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
And thick black plastic eyeglasses.
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Hey, I wear those.
And yes, what this article fails to point out that hipsters love shit like this. Take something that was formerly in the realm of "white trash" and gutter punks/crusties and recontextualizing it you have a recipe for success. PBR was helped further by the fact that every highschooler worth their salt has drunk gallons of the stuff and you have even hipster cred making or "I was there before it was cool."
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Hmmm. You are kind of a hipster, aren't you?

It was/is popular here because a can was $1 at shows and it was really cold.

I might have been a hipster once, but those days left with the 90s.
 
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