A Rose By Any Other Name

[udubdawg]

Interesting article, thanks.

I don’t really agree, but then I drink a good portion of my beer.  Obviously a name will not affect my own perception of it.  The stuff I don’t drink is given to people who are just grateful for free beer.  When I go to a fest I want to know what style is being poured into my glass.  Preferably any special ingredients.  And then I’ll taste it and let the beer speak for itself.  shrug

thanks again–
–Michael

P.S. - I do make an exception for failed experiments.  I’m on “FAIL ALE” #7 or so.  I include a nice “FAIL” image on a label and bottle a few of them.

[onehoppyguy (bo)]

@nateo

I’ve been inspired by this thread to come up with a few beer names:
“Winning personality” Porter
“Sense of humor” Saison
“Not much of a talker, but I love to listen” Lambic
etc.

Me too.

Fairy Framboise
Butterfly Brown
Maxi Pad IPA  ( I may not actually use that one. )
Wholely Whipped Wit
Yes Dear APA

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@nateo

I’ve been inspired by this thread to come up with a few beer names:
“Winning personality” Porter
“Sense of humor” Saison
“Not much of a talker, but I love to listen” Lambic
etc.

Lol!

I think “Concern Troll Kolsch” would be appropriate too.
And there’s always the popular “Hold on, honey, someone on the Internet is Wrong Wheat”

I think there’s a few xkcd comics that are appropriate right now.

-Sent from the future.

[metron-brewer]

I don’t normally name my beers as I haven’t developed any of my own recipes as of yet. So I usually just go with the recipe name given by the original author; “DC Wry Smile IPA”, “Grateful DeadGuy”, “Cowboy Alt”. It did get me thinking about naming a batch that is brewed for a special occasion.

[nateo]

I think “Concern Troll Kolsch” would be appropriate too.
And there’s always the popular “Hold on, honey, someone on the Internet is Wrong Wheat”

Personally, I find casual misogyny as offensive as casual racism. In other words, I find it a little bit more upsetting than someone claiming you never need to make a starter, or you should ferment your beer at 90*F.

Thank God this is America, where anyone is free to be a bigot, and I’m free to deride them.

[system]

Obligatory:

http://www.strangebrew.ca/beername.php

Arrogant Mikhail Baryshnikov Oud Bruin
Where’s my Ewok? Wee Heavy
Brown National Hispanic Heritage Month Porter (Edit: though purely random, using this name probably isn’t advised)
Bo and Luke Duke and Ace Ventura’s Non-Euclidean Bavarian Dunkelweizen
The Sloth Formerly Known As Buddha’s Grunting Old Ale (Edit 2: Also probably insulting to those who believe in reincarnation!)

I don’t usually name beers that don’t leave my house but if I did, I’d use these!  Or Beefheart.

“Neon Meate dream of a Octofish Pale Ale”

[slowbrew]

When I decided to name my brewery I went with a Information Technology is driving me crazy theme.  Hence the “Slowly Losing IT Brewery” was born.  I tried to give beers names that fit the theme.  Here are a few (along with, hopefully witty, tag lines:

“Just park’in son(s)!” Pale Ale (Named for my Dad in last days)
Ma’s By Paul’er Bock
Alzheimer’s Amber Ale - “I’d love another!  First beer I’ve had tonight.”
A Damn Hoppy Dubble  (ADHD)
Psychotic Psour Mash
Strawberry Savant Pale Ale
October Chill Dunkels (OCD)
Barley Fit For Society Stout
Halfway House Wheat
Loose Screw Stout
The Doctor’s Loose Nut (brown) Ale
Electro-Stout Therapy - “This shocks for you!”
Psychopathic Porter
Schitzo Sour Mash “We told you to have a drink with me!”
Hallucination Hefe “Listen to all the pretty flavors”
Bulemic Bitters “'cuz sometimes what goes down, must come up”
Antisocial Amber Ale “Pull me another and leave me alone”
Sympathetic Scottish /70 “If I could still feel anything, I’d know how you feel”
Phobophobic Pilsner – It saves time to be scared of phobias.
Paranoid Pilsner “Is it just me or is this beer watching me?”

I even made sure to get the approval of friend who’s son has OCD before I put a label on the tap for Oktoberfest so I wouldn’t offend them.

Paul

[onehoppyguy (bo)]

@nateo

I think “Concern Troll Kolsch” would be appropriate too.
And there’s always the popular “Hold on, honey, someone on the Internet is Wrong Wheat”

Personally, I find casual misogyny as offensive as casual racism. In other words, I find it a little bit more upsetting than someone claiming you never need to make a starter, or you should ferment your beer at 90*F.

Thank God this is America, where anyone is free to be a bigot, and I’m free to deride them.

I’ll bet you’re really offended by BJ’s Nutty Brewnette, especially coupled with that chauvinistic logo.

You obviously take beer names a lot more serious than I do.

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@nateo

I think “Concern Troll Kolsch” would be appropriate too.
And there’s always the popular “Hold on, honey, someone on the Internet is Wrong Wheat”

Personally, I find casual misogyny as offensive as casual racism. In other words, I find it a little bit more upsetting than someone claiming you never need to make a starter, or you should ferment your beer at 90*F.

Thank God this is America, where anyone is free to be a bigot, and I’m free to deride them.

Who’s being a bigot?  I was simply making comment on the nature of arguments on the Internet.  ???

-Sent from the future.

[onehoppyguy (bo)]

@nateo

I think “Concern Troll Kolsch” would be appropriate too.
And there’s always the popular “Hold on, honey, someone on the Internet is Wrong Wheat”

Personally, I find casual misogyny as offensive as casual racism. In other words, I find it a little bit more upsetting than someone claiming you never need to make a starter, or you should ferment your beer at 90*F.

Thank God this is America, where anyone is free to be a bigot, and I’m free to deride them.

Who’s being a bigot?  I was simply making comment on the nature of arguments on the Internet.  ???

-Sent from the future.

I think that was directed at me.

[udubdawg]

@slowbrew

When I decided to name my brewery I went with a Information Technology is driving me crazy theme.  Hence the “Slowly Losing IT Brewery” was born.  I tried to give beers names that fit the theme.  Here are a few (along with, hopefully witty, tag lines:
Paul

lots of good names; thank you for sharing them.
I’ve only bothered with a few.  When the company furloughed us for a month of course my IPA became “Furloughed Engineer - Pale, Bitter, and Full of Alcohol”
and when a guy in our club bragged about his mediocre porter, “Better than Stino’s” was born.  8)

cheers–
–Michael

[morticaixavier]

@nateo

I think “Concern Troll Kolsch” would be appropriate too.
And there’s always the popular “Hold on, honey, someone on the Internet is Wrong Wheat”

Personally, I find casual misogyny as offensive as casual racism. In other words, I find it a little bit more upsetting than someone claiming you never need to make a starter, or you should ferment your beer at 90*F.

Thank God this is America, where anyone is free to be a bigot, and I’m free to deride them.

HEAR HEAR! ahh bigots and misogynists, what fun would we have without them?

** BEGIN IRONY **
Personally I hate ALL bigots, they are all stupid, ugly, unskilled and untrustworthy. pluss they have no self respect and will work for next to nothing. How are godo upstanding folks like myself supposed to make a living with all those damn bigots cluttering up the job market? ** END IRONY **.

Bo - until very recently, in historical terms, brewing was a ‘womens’ art. Men would not have had anything to do with it.

[denny]

@nateo

I think “Concern Troll Kolsch” would be appropriate too.
And there’s always the popular “Hold on, honey, someone on the Internet is Wrong Wheat”

Personally, I find casual misogyny as offensive as casual racism. In other words, I find it a little bit more upsetting than someone claiming you never need to make a starter, or you should ferment your beer at 90*F.

Thank God this is America, where anyone is free to be a bigot, and I’m free to deride them.

Who’s being a bigot?  I was simply making comment on the nature of arguments on the Internet.  ???

-Sent from the future.

I think that was directed at me.

If the shoe fits…

Try the random beer name generator…

http://www.strangebrew.ca/beername.php

[gsandel]

Nice article…but you might as well be arguing against using cliches.

I don’t like naming beers until they deserve them.  I have a number of beers that have working titles that my co-brewer (brother) and I use amongst ourselves at our secret homebrewing meetings.  I like names that have names of historical (also phiolosophical), personal, or convey a sense about the beer, its ingredients, makers or the effect the beer has on you…more often, though, out in the real world, I like the name better than the beer…

My only real named beer is Bridesmaid Oktoberfest.  It won 2nd best of show in two consecutive local competitions in 2011 (one a Oktoberfest only comp)…this beer has earned her name…and since Oktoberfest is a rememberance of a celebration of the wedding (of prince Ludwig?)…it becomes doubly befitting.

I use “panty dropper” to describe a family of beers that belie their ABV.  Enough of those and I might lose mine…, but no, not an original or particular pleasing name.

Names are important, as the written word was developed to describe images and make lasting impressions…that is why we have a hard time remembering anything that happened to us as children before we learn to speak.  The names of styles are also important and the debates amongst us between Dark American, Cascadian, BIPA, Noonanian or other iterations are time well spent.  Nobody is arguing over the number classification…it is the name that stirs the soul and sparks the imagination.

But your reference to Shakespeare is incorrect.  Juliet was arguing that a name is arbitrary and does more harm than good.  Juliet’s suggestion in her next line past the one about the rose (as well as Denny’s point made above):

“So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,Take all myself.”

She offers herself in exchange for his name…of course, it all ends in tears.

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@denny

If the shoe fits…

Yeah…Shoe fits…foo shits…Foo Shits Foreign Extra Stout ™  ;D

Aw man, I’m getting censored…help, help, I’m being repressed!

[dbeechum]

Yeah, I know Juliet is talking about stripping away the artifice of the name to allow their love to blossom, but if you’re going to reach for a literary reference, it seems to work best if it’s Shakespeare. Otherwise my reference for dropping the off names would be K.V Jr - “There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”

And ccfoo - you’re running into the default filters the board comes installed with. I don’t know if we’ve ever tweaked except to be funny.

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@dbeechum

And ccfoo - you’re running into the default filters the board comes installed with. I don’t know if we’ve ever tweaked except to be funny.

No worries, I’m sure people got it.

[gsandel]

If you take the word Rose and Romeo out and replace it with BIPA and the word Juliet and replace with CDA it makes a whole lotta sense and becomes A tale of star crossed Craft Beer Lovers.

Romeo (AKA BIPA):
But soft! What light through yonder bottle breaks?
It is the East, and CDA is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
Who is already sick and pale with grief
That thou her maid art far more fair than she.

Juilet (AKA CDA):
What’s in a name? That which we call a Beer
By any other name would smell as sweet.
So BIPA would, were he not BIPA call’d,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. BIPA, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.

[weithman5]

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Do you really consider yourself an arrogant bastard?

or so i have been told

[weithman5]

a few of my others

heilige Nacht (holy night)  what the three wise men meant to bring
golden chalice -  not the holy grail, but damn good
bad don’s barley wine - because every man has his develish moments.