Your beer's names?

Discussion in 'Homebrewing' started by malweth, Oct 17, 2012.

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  1. Wreckoncile

    Wreckoncile Initiate (0) Jul 19, 2011 California

    If I may recommend some future ones:

    White Walker's Wit
    Craster's ESB (strong bitter for a strong, bitter man)
    A Gulden Draak clone named Zwarte Draak (black dragon, for Dany's black dragon)
     
  2. francisfilion

    francisfilion Initiate (0) Sep 1, 2011 Canada (QC)

    American IPA: 1225 IPA
    American IPA: Number 4 IPA
    Hoppy Red Ale: Bloody Nelson

    So far our 3 batches!
     
  3. jmw

    jmw Initiate (0) Feb 4, 2009 North Carolina

    Disaster Ace (overhopped with Sorachi Ace)
    'Arry (in honor of Tottenham's skipper at the time)
    Gnatty Porter (got gnats in it you know)
    Trompe la Langue ("fool the tongue")
    Golden Boot (in honor of Thomas Muller, winner of the WC2010 award)
    Velvet Sleeves (1500s name for gannets around Cape of Good Hope)
    Nathair sa Bosca ("box of snakes")
    Tappit Hen (Scottish drinking vessel from the 1700s)
    Wood Frog (fermented too cold)
    Several Species of Unassuming Herbs Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict (traditional heather beer)
     
  4. RichardMNixon

    RichardMNixon Initiate (0) Jun 24, 2012 Pennsylvania

    Rye Koelsch with peppercorns and juniper berries: Birdshot Ale
     
  5. ipas-for-life

    ipas-for-life Initiate (0) Feb 28, 2012 Virginia

    Black Belly Porter- Named after my cat
    Chinook and Friends IPA- NB's Chinook IPA recipe with centennial and cascade
    Star Spray IPA- I accidently used my Starsan spray bottle to control a boil. Noticed after around 10 sprays
     
  6. MaxSpang

    MaxSpang Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2011 Ohio
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    I'll play.

    CCCXCIV IPA - named after the original name of Citra, HBC 394. It was an all-Citra IPA.
    Chariot Cup Holder Stout - Long story, has to do with Apollo (noticing the Ancient Roman theme?)
    Follow the Drinking Gourd - Pumpkin Ale named after the Underground Railroad song of the same name.
    Iron Brigade Imperial Stout - Named after a Union infantry brigade in the Civil War. They wore black hats. (noticing the Civil War theme?)
    Spangweizen - A hefeweizen with my last name in it. C wut i did ther?
     
  7. MaxSpang

    MaxSpang Initiate (0) Jan 28, 2011 Ohio
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    You should make a beer with Cluster and Fuggles and call it Cluster Fug.
     
  8. barfdiggs

    barfdiggs Initiate (0) Mar 22, 2011 California
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    What about Cluster, Pallisade and Fuggles... Cluster Pug.... Super lame, I know.
     
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  9. SFACRKnight

    SFACRKnight Grand Pooh-Bah (3,274) Jan 20, 2012 Colorado
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    top off tripel - first beer ever, some of you may remember my fermentation was so vigorous that it blew the lid off the fermenter.
    peach pie wheat - wheat beer brewed with peaches and brown sugar. not super original
    kitchen sink stout - getting brewed this weekend. Pretty much throwing all my leftover grains into the pot on this one.
     
  10. barfdiggs

    barfdiggs Initiate (0) Mar 22, 2011 California
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    You could make the same beer and give it ten different names along the lines of Le Tigre, Blue Steel, Magnum... etc.
     
  11. barfdiggs

    barfdiggs Initiate (0) Mar 22, 2011 California
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    Velarde's Flight (APA w/ Falconer's Flight brewed for BA nosignsofpain's birthday)
    Mooseknuckle (DIPA)
    Polynomial Hoppiness (IPA brewed for Caltech Strong Ale Club Party)
    Pacific Rim (IPA w/ NZ, Japanese and US hops)
    Rim Job (DIPA, Pacific Rim with extra 2 lbs corn sugar/5 gallons, hopped solely with apollo, hence the butthole reference)
    Matrimonial Milk Stout (Milk stout brewed for my wedding)
    Yuppie Reeses Cup (Milk stout w/ TCHO coocoa nibs & chocolate, & Whole Foods Peanut Butter)
    Frankenweizen (8% Weizen w/ 2 lbs orange blossom honey, dry hopped with Saphir and Cascade, WY3068)
    Carpet Matches the Drapes (West Coast American Amber/Red Ale)
     
  12. carteravebrew

    carteravebrew Initiate (0) Jan 21, 2010 Colorado

    We did that and called it Cluster Fuggle.

    It's hard to say without giggling.
     
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  13. alexipa

    alexipa Initiate (0) Oct 7, 2011 Colorado

    Trail Break - Belgian Wit (brewed in late spring, when the first hikers of the season are breaking trail)
    Pale Al - Pale Ale (my name is Alex, I'm quite pale)
    Basecamp Saison - I took a bunch of this up to the Long's Peak basecamp before a climb
    Ogle Ale - Irish Red (named after my Wife's Irish great grandpa)
    Red Rock Rye - Rye Ale
    Beauty and the Beast - Milk Stout (brewed for a wedding, the groom named it since he is very hairy)
    Goofy Hat - Black IPA (brewed while wearing a very goofy hat, named by my wife)
     
  14. ryane

    ryane Initiate (0) Nov 21, 2007 Washington

    Comfortably Numb - a 21.5% abv impy stout
    What the Funk? - Brett L brown
    Old Fuzz - Old ale with Brett B
    D'Artagnan - A Perry
    Athos - Biere de gard fermented with sherry flor
    Porthos - Barbera grape kolsch with oak and vanilla
    Aramis - Oud Bruin
    Serendipity - Pale sour with Pink Muscat Grapes
    Ashley's Funky Peach - Wild fermented blonde with ripe peaches :wink:
    Cochise Stronghold - MO 4hr boil, 4gal fresh cider, and muscovado
     
  15. GeckoPunk

    GeckoPunk Initiate (0) Jul 29, 2012 Connecticut

    You should call it (Pale Ale"x") or Pale Ale X to better resemble (Pale Ale/Alex) :wink:
     
  16. alexipa

    alexipa Initiate (0) Oct 7, 2011 Colorado

    I like Pale Ale X... I think I now know its name the next time I brew it! Thanks!
     
  17. Unbrewery

    Unbrewery Initiate (0) Dec 28, 2011 Massachusetts

    I can't remember where, but I saw a label for a homebrew once that was called "Cloister Frock."

    Laughed for thirty minutes.
     
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  18. Romel

    Romel Initiate (0) Jan 2, 2009 South Carolina

    Black As Satan (Imperial Stout)
    Grey Water Ale
    Dirty Socks (red ale)
    Maximum Material Modifier (high gravity stout)
     
  19. jRocco2021

    jRocco2021 Savant (1,071) Mar 13, 2010 Wisconsin

    That has to be in the running for one the greatest names for a beer of all time.
     
  20. axeman9182

    axeman9182 Initiate (0) Aug 5, 2009 New Jersey

    I don't always come up with names for my beers, but here are a few I have used...

    KBS Clone - Breakfast in Harlan County
    Sour Blonde Ale (w/ dregs) - Culture of Personality
    Hefeweizen - She's So Hefe (when I perfect the recipe and start aging half on strawberries, that will become the Strawberry Fields edition)
    Black IPA - Hopsploitation
     
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