Naming your home brews

GROTTO Mongrel - Getting Rid Of The Tired & Old (ingredients)

 

Yellow King , IRS with yellow bourbon coffee
Where's my ass, Molly, a mole beer
German Justin Pee, light weight Burton for #1 son
M shell RPA, rye for #1 daughter
And , the ever popular Drunkin Brewer Series which can be awsum or shit depending on the beer,number of crazy people present throwing ingredients into the kettle like extra hops, ginger, chocolate, doubling the spruce tips and other unmentionable things.

Fortunate for me, the war department put a end to that series,,,,,,,,,,,,for now,

 

Many of my beers are simply the style's name, but some of the exceptions have been:
Kaiser's Kolsch (my mother's maiden name was Kaiser)
Ho Ho Hooch ( a spiced Christmas Ale)
Papa's Porter (I'm big into alliterative names )
Sami's Clone (a clone of Samichlaus if it wasn't obvious)
Oh My! Maibock
Junkyard Ale (a mixture of leftover ingredients that was actually pretty good for not knowing how the various ingredients would play with each other)
Gut Czech Pilsner (a clone of Pilsner Urquell)
9- (a minus sign) (a clone of Magic Hat #9 without the apricot extract that the recipe says is the mysterious flavor in that beer)
Buck IPA (actually a pale ale but saying the name reflects that I'm originally from Ohio)
ZDC (a Zombie Dust clone)
Nuclear Brown Ale [from a kit that was called Nukie Brown, but when I opened the first bottle and had a major geyser, whether because of incomplete fermentation or too much priming sugar I'll never know (I was still a rookie then), but I renamed it Nuclear Brown after that. Then I warned everyone who I had given a 6-pack and proceeded to drain pour the rest.]

 

I’ve been naming mine after lyrics from songs that come on while I’m brewing... Kings of Leon have been some of my favs...

I’ll be in the lobby drinking for two
Always mad and usually drunk
Hopped up boys and knocked up girls
So far so good, she’s absolutely wasted

 

I don't name most of my beers, but I heard a phrase in a show today that could make a good name for a banana beer: Rabid Ape Corral

 

Some pop culture references, some inside jokes, some combinations of both.

Walter White Wit
Lady Luck Porter
All Along the Hops Tower
So Saison We All
Duck Fustin Brown Ale
Pretentious Pig Milk Stout
The Lady Luck Awakens
Red Dress Saison
Frackin Saison
Heir to the Imperial Stout
Extra Special Bittercat
Hateweizen
I am Grootbeer
Bad Wolf IPA

Got labels for quite a few of them, added most on untappd for funsies.

https://untappd.com/420brewing/beer

 

I will be doing this while holed up at home this month.

 

Thanks to Drive By Truckers:

Gravity's Gone Saison
A Blessing And A Curse Barley Wine

And Stinger IPA, due to a hornet that drowned itself in the kettle.

 

A few of mine:

Emptier's ESB
Karla's Kolsch
Sweet Dreams Stout

 

Crimson - Amber ale that I keep tweaking

Envy - Galaxy NEIPA trying to somewhat emulate Green (nowhere close)

Wit Passion - passionfruit witbier

Steve - American Porter named for my friend, Steve Porter. He is 6'5", 500lb, and as dark as night. He is truly a dark, robust, American Porter.

 

I don’t have many brews under my belt but I’ve named them all for my friends to check in on Untappd.
Angularmisalignment- IPA ( a co-worker has used this word one day and I was like is that even a word?) now it’s a beer lol
Cocobilly stout- fellow BA @Mikexw named this one for me!!
ANEBA brown ale- ( Another Northern England Brown Ale
So far that’s all I have. Cheers

 

Electrified Hate Black IPA (reference to Municipal Waste's "Unleash the Bastard")
Listen to the Wind Juniper Saison (reference to Leatherface's "In the Real World", next line is and drink a lot of gin)
Saisons in the Abyss Black Super Saison (the Slayer song)

There are more that I can't remember off the top of my head and don't feel like looking up.

 

I give my beers simple but catchy short names to put on the tap handles. Names like Irish red, English Brown, Oatmeal Stout, Coffee Porter delighted my friends. But a couple of my constant beers needed something better so I had Happy Wife, essentially a Kolsch, and Belgian Ball Buster, a hearty 12-14% ABV Belgian Dark ale. My wife's favorite beer for years was the Happy Wife, and hilariously her boss had his balls busted by the Belgian Ball Buster. His wife was not happy when we dropped him off on the porch, rang the doorbell and drove away fast.

 

I call my Great Lakes 'Eliot Ness' Lager clone attempt "Untouchable Lager". It works two ways. First, Eliot's team of law enforcement agents were known as The Untouchables, and second, decently cloning this beer has proven to be untouchable for me to date.

 

I knew you were a metal head, devil horns UP.

 

Responsible foodservice manager by day, straight up hesher by night.