Explain That Name

[homebrewer_99]

Man, I've been to the Schlenklera a hundred times! (Last time was last July) Although it's not a weissbier.

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier (Original Wobbling Smoke Beer)...substitute "wobbling" with "staggering".

 

[Schlenkerla]

Man, I've been to the Schlenklera a hundred times! (Last time was last July) Although it's not a weissbier.

Aecht Schlenkerla Rauchbier (Original Wobbling Smoke Beer)...substitute "wobbling" with "staggering".

From looking at the website it looks as if they have several types; marzen,wheat, bock, lager, lent. (All smokey I guess)

I envy you having been there. I think staggering is correct! :cross:

I believe the one of the original owners was handicapped. The patrons could never tell if if he was plastered due to a bum leg. Hence the name Schlenkerla.

I can say I was schlenkerla-like in 1987 with Fox Battery, 2nd Battalion, 10 Marines up in Keel. Somewhere in Northern Germany. I was also in Pirmansens & Zweibrucke in '04. However I was with work and better behaved!

 

[homebrewer_99]

I've never been to Kiel, but I worked in Bamberg for 5 years.

I left in Feb '04, but was back there last year when I was modifying the the M120 120mm Mortars. They don't have any in Bamberg, that was a side trip. I visited my old neighbors and some American and German friends during my 2 weeks back there.

 

[Robbw]

The only one I've names so far is my Chasin' the Tail Ale. After finally settling on a recipe, it's become very popular with my friends. Seems I keep chasin' my tail trying to make enough!

 

[EvilTOJ]

I have a name, but not a recipe, for my next Lager with a maritime theme. I was thinking "Davey Jones' Lager"

 

[Pumbaa]

I dont realy do the fancy name thing for my brews. I just acll them by what they are; Irish Red, Scotch Ale; Blueberry wheat; etc . . .

About the closest thing Ihave to a fancy name is what I call my set up in the garage St Fuad Brewing. It's a acronym for what I want to say to 99% of everyone since deep down I'm not a people person, all though I usually put up a good front . . . The last 2 letters are just a tack on kinda deal since if I am brewing I would rather be drinking . . .

Anyways St Fuad stands for "Shut The F*** Up And Drink"

 

[Monster Mash]

Holy heck Monster that's quite a setup you've got there. I get flak from SWMBO for hogging all the space in the closet under the stairs with my 6.5 gal buckets... But one day... :cross:

My wife is pretty forgiving but I almost pushed my luck too far this weekend. I made a starter on Monday to brew on Sunday and I was going to let her know what my plans were when I looked at the calender, her birthday is Sunday...DOH!!! I jokingly told her I was brewing but then told her I would take Friday off instead...

I got the flu on Wednesday and Im still sick.... Karma got the best of me....

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Since Brewtopia wanted to revive the topic in another thread, here are the reasons behind the brew names in my signature:

Midnight Oil - it's a very dark beer, and I brewed it in the evening, finishing at midnight
Thunderstruck - a freak thunderstorm hit in the middle of my brew day
Yuri's Better Brew - Alton Brown calls his recipe "Good Brew"
White Christmas - REALLY creative (or not)...it's a spiced Belgian White style

 

[Brewtopia]

I figured this must have been a topic of discussion in the past. Just didn't do the search. Here's mine.

I am a huge film buff and a fan of Film Noir and classic films of the 30's and 40's in particular, so I usually pick names inspired by films of that era. For example, I call my home brewery Naked City Brewing Company after the great 1948 Jules Dassin Film Noir "Naked City" starring Barry Fitzgerald and Howard Duff. Examples of beer names are listed below:

Films
Dubbel Indemnity Belgian Style Dubbel
Gilda Flanders Style Red
Casablanca Belgian Style Wit
White Heat Imperial Wit
Brigadoon Scotch Ale
Impact IPA
Hopacalypse Now Imperial IPA
Open City Alt

Actors
Bing (Bing Crosby) Spiced Cherry Dubbel
Ginger (Ginger Rogers) Ginger Peach Hefeweizen
Edmund Gwenn Grand Cru
Bogart Barley Wine
Cagney Imperial Red
Edward G. Robinson Baltic Porter
George Raft Oak Aged Imperial Stout

And one of my favorites is this year's winter ale
I want a legendary official Red Ryder 200-Shot Carbine Action Range Model Air Rifle with a compass and this thing which tells time built right into the stock. "You'll shoot your eye out" Winter Ale (Red Ryder Winter Ale for short).

I hope to post some of my tap handle designs on the label forum soon.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Add another to my list:

Floor Kill Ale - My Dead Guy inspired recipe. A "floor kill" is what happens when you scrape your adversary off on the ground in an air-to-air fight (dogfight)...almost always resulting in at least one "dead guy."

 

[flubdubman]

A few from my past:

Jeffrey Old Bean Stout - Because when calling my bestist buddy, he would would always say"Jeffrey Old Bean, how are you?" and he really loved my sweet Irish Stout. I can no longer find any of the labels I made up back then, but that one had a rediculas 17th century looking English dude with an earwaxed moustache and a monicle on it.

Melanie's Breakfast Beer - Because the aforementioned bestist buddy's 12 year old daughter (who was wise beyond her years) suggested that I should make a breakfast beer. So I did - can't even remeber what kind of beer it was, but the label was pretty cool.

Butch Bear: A full bodied brew for big broads like you! - This beer was made early in the morning (I worked nights, so 6:30am was drinking and brewing time) and I had called the local radio station to request a song (Tommy and Rumble were the DJ's - for you VA folks). When asked what I was up to I told them I was bottling beer (at 645am). So they put me on the radio, and during the conversation one of the DJ's suggested that name for my beer. I was inspired and found some cartoon clip art of two very large females with short haircuts to make the labels - I sent them a 6 pack of it, but for all I know, they never tried it or maybe even recieved it. Again, can't even remember what kind of beer it was (can you tell it has been a long time since I brewed? - sheesh, I cant wait to get back stateside!!)

 

[fiddup_is_a_middup]

I have been trying to figure out what I would call this one, but I figure since I broke my pinkey toe preparing to brew the beer (i finished brewing in pain) I would call it "Pinkey Toe Pumkin Ale"

I just started (last week) trying to formulate recipes. I wanted to brew a Pale Ale and ended up with a Higher SG that I expectd 1.050 So I called it "Big Boy Pale Ale"

And while we are at it. a side note on my Handle "Fiddup is a Middup" as some of you might be curious.
when i was younger my younger brother had a bit of a problem, well speaking. He would try to say my name "Phillip" but it came out Fiddup. on day he was upset with me (why I have no idea, I was a great older brother) but in his anger he said "FIDDUP IS MIDDUP" So after that my older brothers would taunt me with the phase (over and over and over again) But now as we are all older its all good laughs

 

[Brewtopia]

For those that have trouble coming up with beer names

http://www.strangebrew.ca/beername.php?Mode=Generate

 

[wild]

I made an extra-strong winter spiced ale (11.2%) and called it Rentier Frostschutz. Which translates to Reindeer Antifreeze.

Wild

 

[Brewsmith]

I got a couple pm's about my Wagner Weizen recipe from a guy who's last name is Wagner and he wanted to know where the name came from so I thought I'd share it with everyone else.

I'm a musician, and one one of the instruments I play regularly is the tuba, so a few of my brews have tuba related names:

BBb Bitter
Pedal Tone Porter
Old Helicon Barleywine
Cimbasso IPA

The Wagner Weizen continues with this tradition. Since hefeweizen is a German style and the correct pronunciation is with a "V" it just made sense to use the name of the classical composer Richard Wagner (Re-card Vag-ner). Wagner is most famous for his german operas, most notably the Ring cycle, a series of four operas continuing an epic story about a magic ring and good vs. evil, not unlike the Tolken Lord of the Rings series. You have definately heard Wager before, you just didn't know it. Ride of the Valkyries (Duh de de duh duh!, Duh de de duh duh!, Duh de de duh duh!, Duh de de duh duh!) and the Wedding March (Here comes the Bride) are some of the most well known. To make the tuba connection even further, Wagner developed and used some different horns in his orchestration that came to be known as "Wagner Tubas", even though they aren't really tubas at all.

Wagner Tuba

And just in case you are completely confused on the Cimbasso IPA, here's a pic of it as well. It has the guts of a tuba and the bore of a trombone. The range is of the tuba, but tone is more biting like the trombone. They are often used in hollywood movie scores to give more edge to the low brass.

Cimbasso

 

[skifast1]

I named my wee heavy after my oldest, Alex: "Wee Ale X"

 

[Torchiest]

I call my brewery World Domination Beer, and all my names come from the theme of world domination.

Ascension Ale - This was my first beer, and it was so named because it was the beginning, the ascent to power.

Black Helicopter Porter - Named after the so-called black helicopters that conspiracy theorists are always worried about being used by the U.N. or New World Order to help take over the world.

Donner & Blitzkrieg - I changed Blitzen to Blitzkrieg, which was the name of the big Nazi tank strategy in WWII. It means "lightning attack." I put a tank and a reindeer on the label.

Big Brother Brown - I took that from the dystopian novel, 1984. It's the name of the supposedly benevolent leader of the totalitarian state.

Nuclear Winter Stout, Blonde Bombshell, Razz Buried, Martial Lager, Shock & Oktoberfest, etc. - Most of the rest just add something explosive, violent, or totalitarian to the name. It's all very tongue in cheek, of course.

 

[Orfy]

My penultimate brew was "Son of a Bastard Blonde".

I did a brew which was a bastardised Belgium Blonde Ale. Then I pitched on the yeast cake so....

 

[Cheesefood]

My penultimate brew was "Son of a Bastard Blonde".

• S: (adj) penultimate, next-to-last (next to the last) "the author inadvertently reveals the murderer in the penultimate chapter"; "the figures in the next-to-last column.

SO it's your second to last brew?
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[homebrewer_99]

Let's see:

#7002-Czech Budvar...sometimes only the REAL Bud will do...
#7001-Mexican Lager...with serrano peppers...not as hot as I wanted.
#6032-Light Ale Experiment...because that's what it is...Safale-56.
#6031-Apple Melomel-because that's what it is.
#6030-Amber Waves Ale...made with amber malt.
#6027-Helles-made with only XL DME
#6029-Amber-Waves-Of-Grain Ale...some wheat, but mostly amber malt.
#6028-Bitter American AmBASSador...Bass clone w/British & American yeast.
#6026-AmerAle...American Ale made with Safale-56.
#6025-HW..#6023/#6022-HW...Hefe Weizens...what can I say?
#6021-Propensity Lager...from Uncle Charlie's book...I don't recommend the use of honey. It's still sweet.
#6020-Mango Melomel...hmmm.
#6019/#6018/#6017-HW...more hefe's to get me throught summer.
#6016-Kali4nia Traumer...Cali yeast. Had to give it a try. Not impressed.
#6015-Pumpkin Ale...for the holidays.
#6010-Trappist Dubbel...also for the holidays.
#6004-Barkshack Ginger Mead...for much later...
#6002-1 Mead/3 flavors...split batch of assorted flavoring put into the secondary.
#5018-Peach Melomel...

No secrets that I can see.

 

[Brewsmith]

How creative, Bill.

 

[LouisianaVince]

I called my first batch (which was an American Pale Ale) Gunpowder Treason Ale because I bottled it on Nov. 5th (Gunpowder Plot Day, or Guy F a w k e s Day, in the U.K.). Sorry about the extra spaces, but the forum converted it to ****es when I spelled it all together. Go figure.

 

[McKBrew]

While I haven't brewed much yet, most of my beers will probably be named after various aspects of the logging industry. I currently am fermenting Redwood Weizen (A reddish wheat beer). And have a few other names in mind for various styles all related to the logging industry.

 

[knewshound]

My end of summer blonde ale...

And...

My brown ale, tasty and bold....

And for Christmas...

I use a pin up theme as you can tell.....

I have lots of others but these are the ones I can hot link to.

Cheers,

knewshound

 

[Orfy]

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[/list]SO it's your second to last brew?

Second to last, yes.

Until I do another one..

A little like the sign in my local pub....".Free beer all day Tomorrow"

 

[homebrewer_99]

How creative, Bill.

I know, I spent all of 14 seconds to name my brews.

If I were making labels I would be more creative.

I had a bunch of leftover supplies one time and used a blah-blah non-descript yeast. I found a picture of some retiring Army general for the label and named it Gen. Erik...which reads "generic".

I made a Jalepeno brew once and called it DeGuello (No Quarter). it was hot as hell. I never could finish even 1 - 12 oz bottle.

I was a Liberal Arts student in college so I have an art (painting and drawing), photog, and music background. So, I do have some creativity in me.

 

[Yooper]

I don't name them any more, I guess I'm just too lazy. But last summer I was naming them, and one of my favorite names was "Spank Me Red". We were drinking homebrew in the yard, sitting around a fire and someone said I was a good brewmeister and what else was I making? I said a red ale was in secondary. Well, someone else chimed in that I was a woman, so had to be a brewmistress. Well, the conversation deteriorated rapidly and "Spank Me" by the Brewmistress was born. We had Cool Cat Caramel Cream Ale (with a picture of my cat), Tundra Ted (named for a family member), Sturgeon River Ale (brown ale), etc. Now we drink "E" for ESB, "P" for pale ale, etc. Still tastes good, though!

Lorena

 

[the_bird]

But last summer I was naming them, and one of my favorite names was "Spank Me Red". We were drinking homebrew in the yard, sitting around a fire and someone said I was a good brewmeister and what else was I making? I said a red ale was in secondary. Well, someone else chimed in that I was a woman, so had to be a brewmistress. Well, the conversation deteriorated rapidly and "Spank Me" by the Brewmistress was born. Lorena

That's not exactly how I remember you describing that before...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=10805

You had the name - *I* suggested making it a red ale! Gimme my props, dammit!

 

[Jim Karr]

My signature pale ale is Airedale Tail Pale Ale, because I grew up with an Airedale in the house. My dad had an Airedale continuously starting in 1968.

My stout that I brewed on Fat Tuesday had a picture of the 20 fattest guys on earth on the label, so it became Fat Tuesday Stout.

In honor of my 81 year old Dad who still farms, my wheat became Bud Karr's West Bangor Wheat Beer.

 

[DeadYetiBrew]

To explain the name i've come up with i have to explain the company name...Making a long story short, something died in the wall in the room we have the beer fermenting in (because the temperature is perfect) and it smelled pretty bad, so it started an inside joke about smelling like Dead Yeti...
As for the Bumble's Porter, Bumble was the Yeti/Abominable Snowman in the Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer. He's our mascot... and the Nut Brown Ale well, I wanted to name it either, Dead Yeti's Brown Nut Ale or Yeti's Dead Nut Brown Ale... it wasn't as catchy to everyone else...