Breweries With Generic Names

Real Ale Brewing Company
Blanco Texas

 

As someone who worked for a new brewery there is definitely an air of that but for some, I've found the problem is scaling, probably a good home brewer who fell into some money and lost his mind on a awesome system they aren't used to and just thought some simple math could take their 15 gallon neighborhood winner to scale on a 30bbl system.

 

Two brothers is very close to me ( 5 miles ) and is pretty generic in name. And they brew good beer too.

 

Here I am at the Bad Cafe in Germany in 1970. Bad means bath in German, and we were close by some amazing hot springs. We thought it was funny.

 

Side Project Brewing.

Great beers. But makes me think, can I have your main stuff?

 

Wisconsin Brewing Company
Verona Wisconsin

 

Hard to top the military branding BEER as it was canned. I don’t care much about branding, all the Hop____ fill in the blank with ipas was and is a bit ridiculous.

 

Sucks that in the Mecca that’s referred to as Fort Collins, the Fort Collins brewery had the absolute worst beer in town.

I always thought it was a waste of a great, generic name

 

Springfield Brewing Company, Springfield Mo

 

A Homestead Brew
Dakota Territory Brewing Company
Highway 79 Brewery

 

I'll take a criminally boring name over a sophomoric double entendre or a tee-hee-he weed reference name anytime. Goes for beer names as well.

Get off my lawn too!

 

Whenever I am in a new town/city, let’s call it X, and there is a brewery called X brewing I avoid it. It’s usually mediocre.

Speaking of X, there is a new brewery opening in Orange County called X Brewery. How more generic can you get?

 

Bend Brewing Company. They're the second oldest brewery in Bend, OR (1995) so they could have gone a little more creative. Good beers though, so a rose by another name...

 

Think about what would populate first in a search engine if a tourist who was visiting California decided to google "local craft beer" or "good beer companies". These are common searches. Not saying they make good brewery names, but perhaps the owners were thinking along those lines. In a time where this industry is so over saturated, you kind of have to think like that.

 

West Side Brewing Company. Cincinnati, OH.

This is the closest brewery to my house, and I really want to love them, but their stuff is just average.

They also kinda rub me the wrong way. Before they opened they were touting how they would be "the common man's brewery"... talking shit about over hopped beers and stuff like that.

One of the first times I went there, they were charging $7 for 10oz pours of DIPA...common man my ass... that was a worse per ounce price than any other local brewery I knew of at the time!

 

I'm sure every state has their (insert town name) Brewing, which is lazy, I feel like. However, while not as bad as @RaulMondesi 's BCB shoutout...I'm particularly a fan of (and by that, I mean it's a terrible name) Left Nut Brewing, in Gainesville, GA. And, no, their beers are not particularly good, memorable, nor would you give their namesake for their fluids.

 

There’s a culprit in my city with a location that features both their beers and many other taps from the region. Where you can get a 12oz pour of a 4% beer for just around $7 !!! Also an 8oz pour of a Jackie O’s BBA stout is just about the price of a bottle itself.

Figures cause it’s located in a hub of around a lot of affluent suburbs.

Needless to say, I only visit when I’m up in the chips. Cause they do have a pretty solid taplist. That margain though...quite a jip.

 

There's no reason to not call your brewery Insert Town Name Brewing. Especially if you're the first brewery in town. Takes a name away from potential competitors, is easy to remember, and will help show up near the top of online searches.

 

But if you avoid it, how do you know?

 

But those names have the opposite effect regarding an internet search.