Naming your home brewery

[Kingbrownbrewing]

Mine is King Brown Brewing.

The name comes from where I grew up out bush where the locals would sit in the park and drink tallies out of brown paper bags without a care in the world. They called them King Browns.

The lack of a fancy label and marketing and sitting in the park without a care in the world just enjoying the beer that was in a no name brown paper bag I thought epitamised my brewery. No Frills, no ******** just beer that you enjoy to drink.

Although on reflection it was probably a XXXX bitter or VB in those paper bags, the name still stands.

 

[spog]

Nice tribute Spog and a fitting brewery name.

And it goes to show just how sacred the Odd Drop of Spog can be.

Just realised having decided on naming my brewery after my old man yesterday that yesterday was his birthday!
He would have been 84.
Faarrrrk , spooky or what ?

 

[fletcher]

Comrade Kitty.

Followed the usual craft idea of "something animal". Ie. Mountain goat, red duck, cheeky monkey, hop hog, brew dog etc etc

amen, it's either something with an animal or something with a number in it

 

[waz_j]

amen, it's either something with an animal or something with a number in it

So maybe I should go with "A Number of Animals Brewery" - could be taken a few ways

 

[brewtas]

Numbers are mostly for breweries although Riverside are ruining that a bit.

I named one of my beers [Adjective] [Animal] Pale Ale.

 

[Trevandjo]

Mine's "Yinzhou Craft Brewery". Named after the part of China we are living in. Not very exciting, Not technically a craft brewery either. But sure beats Chinese Megaswill.

 

[Tilt]

I haven't given a lot of thought to a name as usually most of my energy goes into the end product rather than a name or the label.
Talking it through over the holidays, and with a bit of time to let the idea cogitate, my wife's idea of "Marksman Brewery" has stuck in my head.
My first name's Mark and its got all sorts of possibilties with logos and beer names. Looking forward to getting some labels sorted for this years giveaways

 

[Mardoo]

Mate, a target would be a premiere craft beer label. That's a great name.

 

[Tilt]

Thanks mate - yeah, thats what I'm thinking... along with monikers like Magnum IPA, Sharpshooter Gueze etc.

 

[QldKev]

Mine is just QldKev Brewhouse. Pretty easy to decipher. But somedays it's referred to as that ****** thing.

 

[dicko]

Ummm,how do I put my brewery name above my non existent pic.?

Click on your name in the top RH corner and select settings from menu.
Go down to profile information and where it says Brew God delete that and type in your brewery name.

Cheers

 

[fletcher]

Numbers are mostly for breweries although Riverside are ruining that a bit.

I named one of my beers [Adjective] [Animal] Pale Ale.

was just thinking about this and naming, in general, of inanimate objects.

perhaps animals are a default choice or an easy choice as they are often considered as an embodiment of an emotion or behaviour (cheeky monkey), a physical manifestation (fat yak) and/or other states of being etc etc

i've only used one animal name in my beers but i won't from now on as they seem too easy and common place. these are just my musings. can't say i've ever researched it or anything.

 

[brewtas]

You're right about the easy choice. I get the feeling that most craft brewers aren't 100% in their element when it comes to the naming and marketing side of things. It's fun to mash ridiculous adjectives and animals together though, a bit like the real ale name generator. Slippery Peacock is a winner, can't imagine why a brewery hasn't used it yet.

Puns are another lazy option although I think that's more of an issue in America than here. A clever pun is fine but ones like Hopsplosion or Maltimatum take all of 10 seconds to come up with.

In the end, although what ultimately matters is the beer, these kinds of things communicate to me that the brewer isn't quite paying the level of attention to detail that they might be. If they're slacking off there, where else might they be cutting corners?

I should add that I'm talking only about commercial beers/breweries. Names for home brew beers/brewery is a totally different thing.

 

[MartinOC]

Since my brewery is currently rising from the ashes of a 10-year hiaitus, I've decided on "The Phoenix Brewery". I tossed-around the idea of "Fawkes" (as in Harry Potter & also "Gunpowder, treason & plot"), but settled for simplicity.


Now to find a suitably heroic logo......

 

[Pistolpete01]

Forty Six & 2 Brewing

"an idea first conceived by Carl Jung and later expounded upon by Drunvalo Melchizedek concerning the possibility of reaching a state of evolution at which the body would have two more than the normal 46 total chromosomes and leave a currently disharmonious state.[2][3] The premise is that humans would deviate from the current state of human DNA which contains 44 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes. The next step of evolution would likely result in human DNA being reorganized into 46 and 2 chromosomes, according to Melchizedek."

Although I have no scientific evidence to back me up, I'm almost certain the evolution of humans can only begin with the complete eradication of **** beer.

 

[fletcher]

You're right about the easy choice. I get the feeling that most craft brewers aren't 100% in their element when it comes to the naming and marketing side of things. It's fun to mash ridiculous adjectives and animals together though, a bit like the real ale name generator. Slippery Peacock is a winner, can't imagine why a brewery hasn't used it yet.

Puns are another lazy option although I think that's more of an issue in America than here. A clever pun is fine but ones like Hopsplosion or Maltimatum take all of 10 seconds to come up with.

In the end, although what ultimately matters is the beer, these kinds of things communicate to me that the brewer isn't quite paying the level of attention to detail that they might be. If they're slacking off there, where else might they be cutting corners?

I should add that I'm talking only about commercial beers/breweries. Names for home brew beers/brewery is a totally different thing.

oh for sure. what matters is the beer. it's just a lot of fun to create something stupid/fun too in terms of the name and branding. i'm going to take a stab and guess it's mainly the latter that prevents small breweries from getting more market and exposure sadly.

EDIT: i'd drink "horse piss cat's anus **** in your mouth" ale happily, if it tasted amazing

 

[philmud]

Forty Six & 2 Brewing

"an idea first conceived by Carl Jung and later expounded upon by Drunvalo Melchizedek concerning the possibility of reaching a state of evolution at which the body would have two more than the normal 46 total chromosomes and leave a currently disharmonious state.[2][3] The premise is that humans would deviate from the current state of human DNA which contains 44 autosomes and 2 sex chromosomes. The next step of evolution would likely result in human DNA being reorganized into 46 and 2 chromosomes, according to Melchizedek."

Although I have no scientific evidence to back me up, I'm almost certain the evolution of humans can only begin with the complete eradication of **** beer.

Tool fan?

 

[MartinOC]

Although I have no scientific evidence to back me up, I'm almost certain the evolution of humans can only begin with the complete eradication of **** beer.

Although I have no scientific evidence to back me up, I'm almost certain that the procreation of humans has been the result of **** beer. Ergo, remove **** beer & the human race will perish.

Unless you're saying that procreation of **** humans by consumption of **** beer produces MORE **** humans & that the only way for evolution (progress?) is by eradicating **** humans drinking **** beer.

But how do you eradicate the **** humans drinking good beer if that's all that's available??

Edit: I'm drinking good beer as I type & I am (by design ) an absolute **** on occasion......

 

[Captain Kirk]

My oldest boy is Hunter so I called mine Hunter's Call

 

[peas_and_corn]

My brewery is DP Brewery. For Dave's Pub. Yes, that's what I say it means...

 

[breakbeer]

Chicken Piss Brewing (my nickname is Chicken)

swmbo doesn't like it. "but what if you start selling it?"

that made me laugh

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

FOON Brewing, cos my mates said if I called it "NOOF BREWING" they'd get mad. As you can tell, I'm **** at naming things.

 

[RobjF]

Mines 'The Leaky Barrel Brewery. ' my five year old son gave me the inspiration for the name after two occasions he had to tell me my barrel was leaking. Really I had forgot to shut the tap on the fermenter when racking my beer. It now has a face book page although its along way off finished. Still makes good beer.

 

[MetalRooster]

MetalRooster. Was born in the year of the Rooster, and recently learnt that the Chinese also associate elements to the years, so mine was the year of the Metal Rooster. I'm not Chinese, nor do I follow anything to do with the zodiac but thought the name sounded cool. And then I pictured a Rooster dressed as a Roman Legionary, instant logo.

 

[philmud]

I've posted this before, but I wanted something significant to my suburb (Footscray). It's an old area with strong working class and migrant roots. Much of the historical references I was able to find were about the Football team. I learned that in the 1880s, they took to the field as the Prince Imperials, after a former heir to the French throne who was killed by Zulu warriors. I thought it was an interesting and suitably obscure story and I liked the name (Bone Mill Brewery was another contender, the Doggies also took to the field as "The Bone Mill Fellows at one stage).

 

[Lord Raja Goomba I]

Goomba Palace Brewery or just Palace Brewery (or Brauhaus if I'm doing something German).

My grandfather is Indian, and the nephew of the (now former) Maharajah of the area (the British had them acting as sorts of Viceroy of the British Empire and yet the ruler of their state - basically British used the place for their interests but let the locals rule what they had).

When the republic was finally formed and the Indian Government stripped the wealth from those who had it, they lost everything and my grandfather used his British passport and went to England with the shirt on his back. Met my grandmother (scouse), had kids, eventually moved to Australia, which is where I was born.

Even if the titles were still available, I'd be like 200th or something in line to the throne, there's a ton of kids from my grandfather's generation. It's more the heritage thing, along with the other nationalities that I know about in the last 4 generations (hence why my Irish Red gets called McGoomba, and if the Portuguese or Roma people had a beer of note, I'd brew that and give it the appropriate name).

Also explains the handle I chose.

 

[TimT]

Badger's Brews!

 

[Cervantes]

Thirsty Point Brewery

Thirsty Point is on the beach in Cervantes where I live.

Cheers
Andy

 

[aaronpetersen]

I live in the Melbourne suburb Reservoir and I have a PhD, so my brewery is called Reservoir Doc's. Apologies to Quentin Tarantino.

 

[CrookedFingers]

Mines CrookedFingers Brewing.

Spent nearly half my life on a basketball court and ended up with 4 or 5 pretty banged up digits.
2nd knee reco caused a retirement a few years back.