Best and Worst Named Beers

Best: Quad Damn It
Worse: Spicy Fish Wife

 

Bests - Gandhi-bot and Zombie Dust, very cool, thoughtful names.

Worst - Bud Clamato - it just sounds wrong. A lot of the other worsts are hilarious but obvious attempts at attention grabbing.

 

Sorry, lame of me to opine but not nominate.

Best: Orval -- plain and homespun, clearly identified with its place, and gold valley has a nice ring to it (accidental pun on its symbol), somehow evocative of the product, and a punch name that looks good in graphics. Plus the francophones can amuse themselves with jokes about whether the plural should be Orvaux (not sure I get it, but laugh along). OK, I ADMIT, am going for something a bit contrarian. Plenty of satanic/wastoid/irreverent names out there already.

Worst: Not as bad as some of the above, but Manneken Pils almost makes me groan (but I have to admit, I'd probably have green-lighted it, if it were put to me).

 

Best: Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
Worst: Buster Nut Brown Ale

 

Wow i feel almost exactly the opposite...

If Zombie Dust was like really really great it'd work but as it's kinda forgettable at best and profoundly disappointing for a beer with such an propitious name at worst...it doesn't at all live up to the name.

Justin Blaeber on the other hand is awesome because there's a near pun/double entendre as thinking of Bieber and pop music in general reminds me of the cacophonous blah blah nonsense i associate with all the media and pop culture with which he and other bubble gum stars are associated in my mind. As soon as i hear his name or anything about somebody who does what vaguely he does i tune out and hear a background noise which i cant ignore but manage to avoid receiving clearly. No idea if such a thing was intended or if the brewer just thought mall zombies might buy blueberry lambic if he named it that....but in any case i think the name is awesome

 

Um OK...But where is this "forced to change" their label's coming from? Just curious
MD/Mad Dog has nothing to do with this, at least not to me; am I missing the correlation somehow? Did it used to say Mad Dog on the label?

 

Best: Get to the Hoppa
Man Baby
Immort ale
Victory at sea
OB chronic
Storm king


Worst: Dirt Wolf (how does this sound appealing?)
Skid mark brown (see above)
Green monster (that belongs to the Red Sox only)
Velvet Merlin (basically FW was too afraid it call it Velvet merkin originally so they changed it but kudos back to them for calling the BA version merkin)

Side note: I hate the art and name of clown shoes. Heard great things but can't get over the creepy connotations of a pair of clown shoes.

 

Haha...looks like I'm the dumb ass!

 

Even though I've never had it, Spiteful Goddamn Pigeon Porter.

 

The two that always stick out to me as great because they're fun:

- Fort Collins - Carl Weathers As Dillon In Predator
- Tired Hands - The Light That Spills Out Of The Hole In Your Head

 

How could I forget!

Best

Junkel in da Trunkel by Port

 

BEST: Cornballer.

I don't know about worst, but I'll climb on the DirtWolf hate bandwagon.

 

Dragon's Milk is well named. Worst? I don't know, there are a few beers I've avoided buying simply because of the name. Justin Blaeber is up there. I'm not going to lie, Evil Twin has some names for beer that is pretty rough.

 

Best
Devil dancer
Ruination
Head hunter
Heresy
Plead the fifth
The kind
Too kind

Worst
Anything with Xmas in the name

 

i kept counting and it looks like you were post 110 in the thread. my fingers are getting tired.

 

Soft Dookie – Evil Twin

 

I like all the beer names that keep beer to somewhat a classy level. Cantillon has good names, as does many of the belgian breweries. I don't really care for beers called "raging bitch," "golden shower," or "morning wood." Though they are funny, it really sounds like a bunch of immature drunk college kids made up the names for these beers, and in most cases, the labels too.

 

while I agree to some degree, even Cantillon likes to have a little fun with some of thier names... Fou Foune comes to mind...

 

Go Fistmas (Ale) yourself!

 

I kind of like when breweries just name their beer after the style. It's straight forward and lets you know what you are getting if you aren't familiar with the brewery. Nothing wrong with seeing a SNPA or Stone IPA on the shelf and knowing that you're getting the companies representation of that style.