From Crosscut:
While ax-throwing bars are showing up in urban areas across the country, they’re not permitted to serve alcohol everywhere.
Whenever he sees an online news article about alcohol and ax throwing, Matt Baysinger knows what the top comment will be.
“It’s going to be someone saying, in the snarkiest voice I can do, ‘Axes and alcohol, what could go wrong?’ ” said the CEO of Blade and Timber, a nationwide ax-throwing chain founded in 2017.
The company has seven locations across the country where people can go to hang out with friends and hurl hatchets at wooden, dartboard-like targets. At six of those seven venues, people can also drink — beer and wine and, in a few cases, even hard alcohol. The only exception is at the company’s Seattle location, which opened in the Capitol Hill neighborhood in 2019.
Blade and Timber hopes to start selling alcohol in Seattle soon, but in order to do so, it will need to convince more than the snarky online commenters. It will need to change minds on the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board, which has been firm in its efforts to keep alcohol out of these venues....
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Is this what became of the hipsters?
Previously:
"Peak Hipster: Nordic miniature shaving axe"
We've passed the peak haven't we?
Please tell me we've passed the peak, seeing faux lumberjacks in the city is still jarring even after a half-decade....
Brexit: "Berlin to Send Back Thousands of British Hipsters"
Angela Merkel confirmed that British hipsters would be expelled post-Brexit as they have little to offer Germany except basic website design skills and minimal techno club nights.
She said: “We cannot be expected to support thousands of aspiring musicians and bloggers with names like ‘DJ Leo Fukk’ and ‘Tufty’.“They are nice enough but utterly useless. We have plenty of local young people who can serve cocktails in a surly way.”...MORE
