Visualizing the relationship between hipsters and PBR

I am so sick of this term "hipster". It has become watered down to the point of complete meaninglessness.<p>I swear it has become a catchall for the world-of-warcraft set to apply to anybody that doesn't spend their time playing video games.<p>Ride a bike? HIPSTER!<p>Wear jeans? HIPSTER!<p>Listen to music? HIPSTER!<p>Like art? HIPSTER!<p>Enjoy non-sports-bars? HIPSTER!<p>Drink coffee? HIPSTER!<p>Like unpopular films? HIPSTER!<p>It's ridiculous, and seeing people actually use this term as though "hipster" is a cohesive group is embarrassing.<p>I drink PBR as my "stapble" beer. Why? Because it's cheap, and it tastes okay, and because I live in Arizona, and when I come inside from riding my bike (HIPSTER!) or walking my dog (hipster?) drinking some giant craft brew sounds terrible.

I think the relationship between PBR and hipsters is not that hipsters like PBR, but rather that dive bars sell PBR, and hipsters like dive bars (because they're cheap, "real," and not mainstream).<p>As someone from Portland, OR that went to college on the East Coast, I drink a lot more PBR in college than in bars at home. At home, Hamm's, Old German, Rainier, and other beers are common, cooler, and just as cheap. PBR is just cheap.

I'd be interest to see the same heat map with an overlay of average median income for each district. PBR might be a hipster thing, or it could be more of an indicator for a lower-income district.<p>Also, I wonder if chains were included as they could skew the results.

Liked the article, would have loved to have seen Philly (where I live.) I have a hunch PBR would beat out Bud Light in a lot of spots...<p>Another piece of feedback: you should link to your startup's main page more prominently--I didn't find the link at first so I had to type in locu.com to see it.

The font-color you use in your blog is so horrible to read!

Hipster is a puzzling word for this non-native English reader. Dictionaries say that it's people with unconventional and modern tastes in music, clothes... I had detected an unexplained negative tone whenever I see it used. Now this article seems to suggest that there's also an economic factor. That would explain it. So instead of "modernos" I guess I should translate it as "pijos".

Has someone actually paid $10+ for a Bud Light?? There appear to be some issues with the data. I can see $4 and maybe $6 at a bar or restaurant, but $10-12 will get you a whole pitcher of drinkable beer. How was the data collected?

This is too cool! I can only imagine what sort of other interesting relationships exist. Data like this offers the opportunity to answer some modern-day anthropological questions, especially in conjunction with other data sources.

How can you publish an article on hipsters without covering Austin or Portland?

They'll all be drinking Old Milwaukee in a couple years.