Hype Cycle vis-a-vis Craft Beer

Needs homerism and scarcity as inputs.

 

Other inputs needed:

• What rare barrel was the beer aged in?
• How murky is the beer?
• What pasty flavorings/ingredients were added?

Cheers!

 

I see we've found a new way to make all the same posts.

 

That plateau seems optimistic.

 

deer in the headlights look on my face while staring at the graph....

How about you boys go dig a hole, and I'll get myself another beer.

 

I think it would be much more applicable to styles instead of craft beer in general

 

I like the way Time is a constant bottom line. Like, that is cool.....

 

When I was a kid, I had a hand-me-down Hypecycle that had belonged to my older brother. Big balloon tires, thick fenders and I could barely reach the pedals when I first took it over. While all my friends were riding Schwinn "Sting-Rays" (well, one guy whose father was laid off built an imitation Sting-Ray out of his sister's pink 20" bike by buying a banana seat, the big handle bars and some Rustoleum Cherry Red spray-paint at W.T. Grants. He had a paper route, so he had some cash and needed a bike).

They made fun of me, but I made it through. Well, somebody did steal my Sandy Koufax baseball glove off the handle bars one day. I think I know who did it but... statute of limitations and all.

 

I haven't seen W.T. Grants mentioned in a very looooong time. My older sister worked at a W.T. Grant store for several years.

Cheers!

 

So many references, that the young 'uns won't even get, in one post. You sir, win the internet for today.

 

My favorite bike was my Huffy Thunder Road. Had a #54 on it, thick block seat, sport plastic fenders. That bike got me to the ball field just fine...used to build ramps with friends with wood and cinder blocks and see how many big wheels we could jump like Evil Kinevil jumping school buses. I didn't have the Sandy Koufax glove, but I had a Rawlings Brooks Robinson that was my actually my dad's hand me down glove. Thing was so huge on my hand, but I won many gold gloves in little league sucking up grounders from shortstop. Nostalgia is great isn't it?

 

I'd like to have the baseball cards that I collected and attached to the spokes back.

 

That doesn't apply here, there is generally no trough. What next, a Gartner Magic Quadrant with quality and cost as the axes? Or quality and hype?

 

Its great but highly suspect in terms of accuracy.

I've been playing SS for over 35 years (including last night), and the overwhelming conventional wisdom is that middle infielders should have the smallest glove of anyone. Playing SS with an oversized glove is a nightmare for me.

But hey, nobody would ever tell you to have a batting stance like another SS, Julio Franco, and he was an All Star and banged out over 2,500 hits in his career.

To keep things slightly relevant, last night at the game I drank a Stone White Ghost berliner weisse, Sierra Nevada Hazy IPA and Anderson Valley Brut IPA. We lost 11-3, but I went 1-2, BB, 2 rbi.

 

But balloons made a much better sound...until they popped!

Cheers!

 

What else were you going to do with the ones of Washington Senators or Kansas City Athletics?

 

Dude, Harmon KilleBREW!

 

Should also include artificial scarcity i.e. Dark Lord and any limited Toppling Goliath release.

 

Nahhh, holes have a useful purpose