Dumbest beer names you've come across recently

Pink Fluffy Unicorns Dancing On Rainbows, Half Brothers Brewing Company

 

Anything from Evil Genius or Rusty Rail.

 

Where do you start? I mean, some of these names have little connection with reality! I don't let that stop me from enjoying anything though.

 

I actually bought one of those Fluffy Unicorn beers, but before I could drink it my daughter saw it, and she likes unicorns and rainbows so she drank it.

She's 32.

 

Mangled Baby Ducks

No...wait a minute. That would actually be an awesome name! What gives, brewers?

 

Drekker Lizard People.

 

If 'boomer shaking fist at the sky' was a thread...

 

Clipper Dark Light Beer.
The brain trust at Miller thought that one up. I think it was test marketed in San Diego in the late 70s. (Boomer shaking old fist at old irrelevant beer label.)

 

Proper - Unicorn Fight Dungeon was definitely strange. Great beer imo however

 

Remembering "Mangled Baby Ducks" made me search YouTube five years ago and luckily they had posted that hilarious SNL routine. My comment has garnered the most upvotes.

 

I'm genuinely surprised that none of those names haven't been pilfered yet.

 

I've probably always done that. Stupid names, immature or revolting labels (no need to post a pic of the most notorious one, fellas), bad politics, objectionable business and labor practices. Leave 'em on the shelf. At bars or breweries I just refer to the beer I order as "Let me have the (Brewer's name) pale ale" and drop the goofy name.

It's a positive aspect of having 10,000 breweries - it makes it easy to put a brewer on one's personal boycott list and still leaves lots more choices to drink.

To compete against Pabst Special Dark "The Lighter Dark Beer" ?

 

In the earlier 70s on the west coast, I remember Special Dark draft as one of the better dark lagers (but there were few competitors at the pizza parlors I ate at: Blitz, Rainier, Lucky, Heidelberg, Oly).

 

I want to support that brewery now.

 

Wasn't that from National Lampoon?

 

Promotional material from 1979 announcing the release of Pabst Special Dark used phrases like "will offer a dark variety that will lack the heaviness" and that the beer has been "under development for about two years" - all of which suggests it was a new recipe, unrelated to the earlier draught-only Pabst dark beer which used the same name.

Yeah, draught-only dark beers did have some regional popularity - in New England around the same period one often found a tap handle marked merely "Bavarian" and, upon inquiry, it was usually the dark version of the bar's most popular AAL, especially Narragansett, Ballantine and/or Falstaff (probably all the same beer out of the Cranston brewery).

Of course, the question about many of that era's "dark beers" was always were the breweries customers of Emken or other similar producers of brewing ingredients.

 

I think Stillwater used to have some beers named after random nouns, like Stereo, Projector, Vacuum. Also, Evil Twin names can get some eye rolling.

 

SNL- see post #11

 

Haven't read through all the replies, but I'm sure this has been said : pretty much anything from Evil Twin.

 

Drekker is worth it for the can art alone.

 

Agree ! lots of stupid names with "Jesus" (and others) that just make no sense.

 

One I drink a lot of in the summer is Eel River Brewing - Climax 100. Incredibly stupid name.

They used to make a steam beer called California Climax, then they transitioned that brand to Climax Noel (a 9.2% red ale that may have been spiced? I can't remember but it was a holiday release) and then for some God awful reason when they decided to make this "light ale" (I'd say it's closest to a kolsch) with only 100 calories they moved the Climax brand to that one and named it Climax 100.

It sounds like a sex toy model number

 

...from the 80's.

 

Jjjuliusss
How are we supposed to pronounce this

 

Just like you would, if you had a stuttering problem.

Ddddduh!



But seriously, the dumbest thing is seeing "Triple IPA (TIPA)" label/name being put on 9.5-11% ABV Imperial/Double IPAs.

 

I've never had an Evil Twin beer, admittedly has a lot to do with the names. I like classic names that don't try too hard (or at all) to be clever. The worst is when I can't even find the stupid name at all on the can due to the crazy artwork.

 

With the plethora of breweries each with numerous drafts, it's got to be difficult to come up with a unique eye catching name.
Sure, a lot of names are childish, but what really matters is the quality of the liquid inside the serving vessel.
Sticks & Stones may break my bones, but as a beer name it wouldn't hurt me.
Most beers with ridiculous names are horrible, but not all.
Purple Monkey Dishwasher, both bad beer & dumb name.
Old chub, odd name but great beer.
You sit there & try to come up with a unique name that fits the beer that has not already been taken.
Eventually you will take what they allow you to use.
Kind of like getting a custom vehicle license plate.

 

What

What are your favorite dumb names?

 

As an engineer and not a marketer, I would label my beers Lager #1, Lager #2, IPA #1,...

But as the saying (kinda) goes, "a rose by any other name is still a rose!"

 

To your point- Beer'd Brewing in CT actually had a beer called "Name Already Taken".
It made me laugh out loud picturing a group of people frustrated after one failed Internet search after another.

 

"Fat Tire Amber Ale"

 

Only sneks can pronounce that correctly.

 

After having 216 of their beers, their artwork isn't as cool as it once seemed. I don't see them changing to something mundane at this point though.

 

While I agree that most “punny” names are more bad than good, it honestly doesn’t impact whether or not I’ll try it. I
mean, if I can try something brewed by Hoof Hearted then where do I draw the line? Evil Twin beer names are annoying just because they’re so long and many are similar.

 

If it tastes good, I don’t care. But if I owned a brewery, I wouldn’t use the word “hop” in any beer name. Seems a bit lazy. Put a HopSlam in front of me though, and I’ll still drink it

 

My money is on Brown Note.