How do you name your own beers?

[calluma11]

Hi all,
Just a quick question for today.
When you make your own recipe that you're finally happy with- how/what do you name them?

All i can think of is Aveling Lager (Aveling is my surname)

Cheers
Callum

 

[WelshPaul]

I name most of mine after locations and sometimes items in the Fallout computer game series!

I so far have made Muddy Rudder (wheat beer), Red Rock (APA), Fat Man (Dark American Ale) and Black Mountain (Stout).

 

[calluma11]

Ha, never thought of it that way :P
Might have to call mine Slurpy Joe Lager..dont think thats taken anyway.

Thanks

 

[pittsy]

i don't name em as each brew is often different i call them pale heff or wit etc mostly i name them after the yeast also like 300 or 351 , and i cap with different colours per brew so all gold is a belgian ale etc and just mark the cap with a felt pen often with yeast number

 

[BrotherMalice]

I have named mine after places I have lived or want to live:

Blackberry Drive IPA

Thats the only one that I managed to get around to putting the labels on the bottles though...

 

[Swazi]

I'm terrible at naming my beers. I used to name them myself using all the usual methods (places, ingredients, style etc..) Now I can't be bothered so I just use a random name generator on the internet.

 

[THE_Liam]

I like double entendres, my first TC was called Dickens Cider...

Say it out loud

 

[regaltabs]

I name my beer with a twist to there original name, my SNPA is named Sierra XR4 (great car) and my Proper Job is called Cornish Helmet

 

[THE_Liam]

I name my beer with a twist to there original name, my SNPA is named Sierra XR4 (great car) and my Proper Job is called Cornish Helmet

I had an XR4x4, bloody loved it. I was 19 and all my mates had 1.0 Corsas

 

[cwiseman77]

Take the style or some characteristic of the beer and make up a pun or play on words.

e.g. My wheat beer was meant to be similar to a Hoegarden so Sl*t's Back Yard
My porter became Bell Boy's Revenge
etc....

 

[GuitarJImB]

Great thread! :thumb:

My first two (after the first AG which was a nameless TTL clone) were a play on words of the original recipes:

Black Sheep Ale clone...

Castle Rock Harvest Pale clone...

My latest effort was my own creation and my mate suggested a good old Nottingham phrase which kind of summed up the intention behind the brew...

The next one (starting in two weeks) is a very dark yet hoppy ale which I am calling Dark Knight (in honour of The Batman!) label not designed yet! :thumb:

 

[brucestevenson916]

I go for the alcohol/beer type, then think of a play on that. So my honey beer was named "bear punch"(6.7%) raspberry kick(rasp vodka)

To be honest I do struggle as I lack appropriate imagination:) off with the fairies, but canny name a beer:)

 

[fbsf]

Similar to the others - normally a play on words or something that's relevant at the time.

So my dark ale that was bottled on the closing weekend of the Olympics became "Aleympic", the Coopers Cervesa that was around 3.6% became "Orina de Mosca" (gnat's pee) and the stout became "Max Load 8 Persons" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcYv2L3cx8).

They normally have a reference to the Sadley Broke Brewery (a pun on my town name) as well.

 

[Aleman]

My German pils that I was planning on kegging and bottling yesterday will be

Slipped disc Pils

Coz that's what happened yesterday :evil:

 

[Dave1970]

Play on words for me sometimes, other times it comes from the picture. I like to use a nice picture & sometimes googleing the picture leads me to a different name than I was originally thinking of.
Other beers just 'do what it says on the tin' like ESB
Oh and of course they all have a Brambling in them to fit the brewery name