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One of our dogs is a beer fiend. He only weighs about thirteen pounds though so, we have to be very careful how much we give him.
My wife wants to name our beer after him. She wants to call it "Colonel Angus Ale"
He has a weird licking fixation too.
 
I have a Hungarian Vizsla named Red Dog that I wanted to name my home brewery by. It is bad enough that people would think I named my dog after a wretched beer. I don't want them to think I named my wonderful ales after an uninteresting lager.

BTW: GIS for Vizsla vizsla - Google Image Search
 
Mine is Big Black Dog because I have the greatest big black dog ever, and I like to do everything I can to fight
Black Dog Syndrome.

Was not aware of this. My dog was truly rescued because he was two days away from being put down. He had been in the pound for 7 weeks 5 days and was the saddest skinniest smelliest dog in the joint. We suspect he was overlooked because he is a Chow mix which has some reputation for being aggressive. He is the sweetest dog I have ever had.

He has also made a great model for my coffee bags. It is funny the way people act when they realize that the dog on the bag and my actual dog are one and the same. I took him to a party once and a couple people there recognized him from the coffee they had at home. They acted like they were in the presence of a celebrity.
 
Here in England, it's pretty much an unspoken rule that all pubs must have a resident dog! In fact, in my local there are usually 3 or 4 dogs walking about - Once last summer a customer came in and asked the publican 'do you allow dogs in your pub?' to which he replied 'Absolutely! I prefer them to humans!'.

Another local pub around here called "The Gribble Inn" has a massive basset hound called Puzzle who walks around eating chips people have dropped on the floor and generally getting very fat! Their brewery (The Gribble Brewery) made a beer called "Puzzle's Revenge" :)

As far as I'm concerned, dogs and beer are basic staples of a mans life (or womans life!) and if people want to name there brewery/beer after their dog then good on them!

H
 
dogfish, as in dogfish head beers is actually a species of shark (hence the shark on the label). so that beer in particular has nothing to do with dogs besides the coincidental name
 
I've been inspired.

Considering using the word "Dog" in all future posts.

Has anyone seen my "dog".

There's one. :ban:
 
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I almost named my brewery "sun dog" which has nothing to do with dogs at all. A sun-dog is a celestial phenomenon where the sun casts a halo in a misty sky. Kind of like a giant ring-shaped rainbow around the sun. It looks like this:
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The reason I did not go with sun dog is because the mighty Anheiser-Busch dicided they needed another beer label since the dozens they have are not enough. They produced a "sun dog" that featured a cartoonish dog with sunglasses and a bandana around the neck. I think it looked like it was ready for frisbee or something. Anyway, totally took the wind out of the sails...:mad:

-Tripod
 
My brewery is named after my Ginny pig... Jörvi Brauhaus

Here is a picture of Jörvi
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