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Or the famous “floor Sweeping
Ale “ after a paper bag of grain broke.
Reminds me of the time my scouts dumped the pot of burger they were cooking off the stove. They asked me what were we going to have for supper now. As I reached down and scooped up a double handful and put it back into the pot, I told them; “ground meat!” 🤣
 
I have a couple. One WF lager I did a few years ago when my ferment fridge went plotz, temperature got up to over 80 before I caught it. Turned out pretty good, called it To Hell and Back. Current porter that's based on an Anchor Porter recipe is called Here, Hold My Boat. Moose Drool clone (tweaked for my system) got named Boris & Natasha go to Saskatchewan. Because moose and squirrel....it was funny when I thought of it.
 
Or the famous “floor Sweeping
Ale “ after a paper bag of grain broke.
Any time I whip up a recipe using what ever I have lying around, I call it "Floor Sweepin's" Ale.

Inspiration: multi-bean soup mixes of dried beans. I am convinced that some janitorial employee at a bean-packaging plant asked what to do with all the various beans that spilled on the floor of the bagging line over the course of a day, and some marketing guy had a lightbulb moment. I've always called mixed bean soup "Floor Sweepin's soup."
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After assessing what I could brew with what grains I had on hand, I came up with enough to do a blonde ale. Now scraping the bottom of the barrel for these grains, it had not crossed my mind that I would end up with all the little rocks that had filtered down to the bottom.
So, when I started running my grain through my Corona mill I was getting all kinds of terrible rock-grinding sounds.
Called this one “Rock Hard Bottom Blonde Ale”
 
I split up 20 gallons of wort for brown ale into three batches. One done using English hops and S04, second American hops and US-05, third using American hops and Nottingham yeast and a quart of maple syrup.
Named them Larry, Darrell and Darryl.
Yes Larry was the one with syrup.
 
Brewed a Kolsch outdoors once. A yellowjacket did a kamikaze into the boil kettle. I was able to scoop it out. Called the beer (of course) Yellowjacket Kolsch.

Made a Moose Drool clone. Called it Elk Snot.
I had to look Moose Drool up, but reading both of these stories just right behind each other - made me first think of a similar incident... hope there are not that many moose with flu around your spot...

Nanook's DIY Yellow Snow Kit
The Utility Beer research kitchen approves this :D

- Pumpkin Wheat Ale -- "Peter Peter Pumpkin Wheater"
Hillarious!

Recently I brewed a pale ale for my brother's church wedding celebration - I don't have a name yet, just the working title 'married with kids'.
 
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