Food and Drink Hipsters driving up price of beer, researcher says

Deberg_1990 · 05-22-2013, 06:01 PM

Damn you hipsters!

http://www.latimes.com/business/mone...,1055838.story

Here’s another reason to be annoyed at hipsters: They’re driving up the price of beer.

A recent study has found that the price of low- and mid-range beers has been climbing at U.S. bars and restaurants. And the guy who oversaw the study for Massachusetts-based research firm Restaurant Sciences said he thinks the popularity of Pabst Blue Ribbon could be the cause.

“While all the attention has been on craft beers, the price of mainstay brands in the mid-price tier have risen more dramatically,” Research Sciences President Chuck Ellis said.

Pabst Blue Ribbon, a low-cost beer that has become a popular choice of the bearded, skinny-jeans wearing crowd, is a key reason the price of sub-premium beers has climbed 6.8% in the last seven months, Ellis told the New York Daily News.

"I believe the single biggest driver in sub-premium beer price increases is indeed specifically PBR," Ellis said. "It has become quite fashionable."

Ellis reached that conclusion after his researchers tracked beer prices at 500 bars and restaurants. While the price of expensive craft beers also climbed, they did so at half the rate of beers like PBR, Research Sciences reported.

"Traditionally, lower-priced beers such as Pabst Blue Ribbon have seen sizable double-digit price increases in both restaurants and bars and nightclubs," Ellis said.

**bevischief** · 05-22-2013, 06:04 PM

Read this on another site.

SPchief · 05-22-2013, 06:06 PM

****ing hippies

Radar Chief · 05-22-2013, 06:09 PM

They're just trying to help save America.

Drink it, ya assholes.

Mr. Samsonite · 05-22-2013, 06:14 PM

Dangit.

Chiefs Pantalones · 05-22-2013, 06:14 PM

I hate hippies/hipsters.

**Saulbadguy** · 05-22-2013, 06:29 PM

I drink PBR for reasons based purely on irony.

BlackHelicopters · 05-22-2013, 06:46 PM

Demonpenz · 05-22-2013, 07:06 PM

Reaper16 said it was a good pale ale

ThatRaceCardGuy · 05-22-2013, 07:09 PM

I hate hipsters....kill them all.

Titty Meat · 05-22-2013, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saulbadguy

I drink PBR for reasons based purely on irony.

You're a redneck living in Kansas?

Johnny Vegas · 05-22-2013, 07:13 PM

PBR is okay. now a Montana Corona is where its at. An Olympia beer with a lime wedge. So ****ing good and at $2 for a pint I'll do it all day.

**Saulbadguy** · 05-22-2013, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini

You're a redneck living in Kansas?

SPOT ON

Dayze · 05-22-2013, 07:28 PM

No shit, a friend of an old co-worker, the co-worker and myself met up for happy hour about a year ago. He ordered a PBR. I thought "WTF....they aren't going to have that".

sure as ****...here comes the 16oz can of PBR. I was stunned. I was waiting for somone else to order a Natural Light...

Consistent1 · 05-22-2013, 07:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnny Vegas

PBR is okay. now a Montana Corona is where its at. An Olympia beer with a lime wedge. So ****ing good and at $2 for a pint I'll do it all day.

Oly is better than PBR.

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