Your hipster and/or Chad beer options just got more crowded this week with the launch of Shiner Bock in the city. To help you out in hunting the Texas brewery selection down, Shiner has set up a neat little website briefly describing the beer, its history, and - most important - a list of locations where you can find Shiner Bock. The list, which we're hoping is partial, is sort of the lowest common denominator type that we expected when Fat Tire legally rolled out last year. Seriously, Joe's on Weed? Dick's Last Resort? Durty Nellie's in Palatine?
We're not surprised.
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"Your hipster and/or Chad beer options ..."
Huh?
Are you trying to say that "coolness" and social class (for lack of a better phrase) are measured by the beer one drinks?
If so, it must be interesting to live in a world with such meaningful standards.
I happen to really like Shiner Bock and it looks like it'll be sold at the Village Tap on Roscoe, so I'm excited. I guess that makes me a hipster. Who knew.
Shiner is not a hipster beer by any means. Shiner Bock is pretty much the default regular beer at just about any bar in Texas. It's pretty good for the price, but they add colorant to the flagship lager to give it a dark look.
Of course they're only selling it at bars I don't want to attend.
Jesus christ. Because I like Shiner Bock, I'm a "hipster and/or Chad" now. I'm really starting to wonder why I read this progressively smarmy and judgmental blog. Hey Chuck, why don't you inform us all what we're allowed to drink without being placed into your outdated and cliched social categories.
id like to think that i am responsible for the 4 moon carrying it. i brought it to their attention months ago.
and the people that are upset at a blog calling them a hipster or a chad are probably most definitely chads.
Did you feel like starting a fight this morning, Mr. Sudo? Goodness.
I'm still SHOCKED at the $4.50 selling price at the Brownstone last night when I had some Shiner. A little steep for the Texas cheap beer - unless Texas really has become another country and we have to import Shiner with a lot of tariffs on it.
Yeah, it's a cheap beer in Texas, and basically will be a premium here. That's totally messed up. I like the beer, but not even close to one of my favorites.
What folks really like about it when visiting Austin during SXSW is that it's usually associated with these words (Free Shiner Bock!). The free part is important.
Oh come on. I don't know anything about Shiner, but don't try and tell me that there isn't some (read: "massive") hipster component behind the popularity of certain beers like PBR. It certainly isn't about the taste.
but then again, you were drinking at the brownstone.
It was always my impression that Hipsters and Chads were opposites. I read the phrase as meaning "regardless of who you are, your beer options just got bigger."
That reading doesn't give anyone an excuse to throw a temper tantrum and start attacking the writers here though, and what fun is that? God knows it seems like the only reason half of you read this blog.
Shiner beer is also at Sam's Wine & Spirits.
FYI - It's not a hipster beer.
That reading doesn't give anyone an excuse to throw a temper tantrum and start attacking the writers here though, and what fun is that? God knows it seems like the only reason half of you read this blog.
And attacking fellow commenters is the reason for the other half.
Julene, after two years you should not be surprised at what I'm capable of with a full night's sleep and 100 words or less.
I'd rather drink PBR.
I'd rather drink PBR.
I agree. It's stupid to hold the hipster clientele against PBR when it's pretty much the only cheap beer around most places that has some bite to it. There's just something in the taste of nearly all cheap macrobrewed lagers that I can't stand, but Pabst is at least drinkable when I don't feel like reaching for the decent stuff.
Neither tastes all that great, but all other things being equal, choosing PBR over Shiner is insane.
IT'S ABOUT TIME!!!!!!! I fully intend to b-line to the geographically closest on the list! Y'all can debate beer politics all you want, for those of us (tranplants) who've been up late pining for Shiner, this is a very good day! XOXOXOXOXO
You are all 'hipsters' and 'chads'!
I'm the only regular joe left in this damn town!
I'll take an Oldstyle over the other cheapies myself. And if you want to blame anyone blame Portland for PBR's revival.
And attacking fellow commenters is the reason for the other half.
Duh!
With everyone on the internets so quick to either bash hipsters and Chads or vehemently deny that they fall into either category, I am left wondering if hipsters and Chads are the only people without computers and/or internet access.
Or perhaps they are all quietly crying into their Shiners Bocks right now as they read this, hands too shaky to comment?
Or, they stay away from blogs that grow increasingly stereotypical and randomly dumb? And thus, most of the internet?
Good god, I'm joining one of them. Smart peoples.
What else would the comment feature be for? So all the readers could say great job and bravo? Don't you think as the writer you would like to see people responding to your post, even in tantrum form? That being said, I'm not even sure what a Chad is, is that supposed to be striped collared shirts and ironed jeans guys? Why do we use these retarded words? And when did the word 'scene' become an adjective?
All I can say is hallelujah! Ever since being introduced to that nectar of the gods last year during a visit to Houston, I've had to trek 120 miles around trip to Racine, Wisconsin to gratify my fix. This is mighty fine news indeed.
I have lived here a while..Shiner makes about 8 different beers...and the cheapest price is right at 6 bucks a six pack,in Shiner ..it goes up from there for their seasonal beers.The Shiner Blonde is the one based on the original brew..the Bock was the seasonal strong dark brew..the use of colorant as stated would be news to the masterbrewer down here.Shiner became a College beer when the the schools around Austin "discovered"it...there is nothing quite like it.This is from someone who was born and raised in Germany...just a really good beer.
I found it interesting to read the "slams" on Shiner beers. Don't know where the "critic" got his information, but Shiners does not add "colorant". I went on a Canadian fishing trip with 3 guys from Ohio and I brought along 3 cases of Shiners and each of them brought along their "favorite" beers as well. They all tried a bottle of Shiners and then (guess what?), it seems that all of a sudden, their favorite beers were forgotten. When I moved up here this year, all of them said where is the Shiner? I'm looking for locations in Ohio that might carry Shiners. It just sounds to me like certain "windy city folks" can't stand anything from Texas being better than what they drink... maybe sour grapes?? Long live Shiner beer and the Spoetzl brewery.