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Old 07-24-2005, 11:02 PM
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Talking Literary Drinking

As summer is upon us, and we now have a patio we can actually enjoy it on, we have been imbibing certain beverages with considerable frequency

Yesterday, for example, we bought an amber ale called "Thirsty Beaver Ale." This, of course, produced much discussion on the subject of ahem... well.. "Thirsty Beavers"

There is also a tasty red wine out there called "Fat Bastard."

More and more alcohols are sporting humorous names, the above are just two examples of some of those I've seen.

Any more out there that you've come across?
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Old 07-25-2005, 01:30 AM
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"Fat Bastard"? ROFL

The only alcohol I can think of here in Finland which has "humorous" name is ale called "Lapin Kulta" (in english something like "Gold of Lapland")
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Old 07-25-2005, 01:42 AM
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Theres always Ginger C0ck (Oh the immature humour that can be gained by walking into a supermarket, and asking if they sell it, in a loud voice )
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Old 07-25-2005, 04:36 AM
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not so funny but we got something called "old reserve"
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Old 07-25-2005, 05:10 AM
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Monkey Shoulder Scotch
Teachers Scotch
Tennants super strength bitter (only drunk by the homeless)
Old Tart sauvignon

Fantasy fans among you may wish to try 'Skullsplitter' and 'Dark Destroyer' ales...names meant in ernest
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Old 07-25-2005, 05:25 AM
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There's another red wine called Goats do Roam, which is rather tasty, as is fat bastard.

England is chock-a-block with daftly named beers. Old Peculier, Bishop's Finger, Old Speckled Hen, to name but three of my favourites.
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Old 07-25-2005, 05:54 AM
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That is the most bizarre lager on the planet. I drank only 4 cans of that stuff at home one night and felt perfectly fine... then I stood up. My legs were completely gone , my upper body was fine, but legs had turned to rubber. Had to crawl up the stairs... where I decided to stay for the rest of the evening


Dodgy stuff...

Ofcourse there's Bull's Blood wine (Bulgarian I think)

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Old 07-25-2005, 05:56 AM
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Some of the Belgian beers have fairly amusing names:
"(Avec les) Bon Voeux (de la Brasserie)" ((With the) Best Wishes (of the Brewery))
"Dikke Mathilde" (Fat Mathilda)
"Dikkenek" (fat neck = pretentious person)
"Duvel" (indeed, devil)
"L'Espoir" (Hope)
"Facteurkensbier" (Little postman's beer)
"Flierefluiter" (good-for-nothing/idler)
"La Guillotine"
"Hellekapelle" (Hell's Chapel)
"Helleketelbier" (Hell's Cauldron beer)
"J'ai dix ans hi hi hi" (I'm ten years old heeheehee)
"Kwak" (well... quack)
"Lucifer"
"Lumière noire" (Black light)
"Ma chouette petite chope" (My lovely little pint/glass)
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Paranoia
Pick-up pils
Satan
"Verboden Vrucht" (Forbidden Fruit)
and of course the ignominiously named "Bush beer" (in good company with Duvel, Satan & Lucifer)
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Old 07-25-2005, 07:20 AM
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In Thailand, they have this beer named "Singha."

Singha means lion and is pronounced "sing" (aspirated).

However, if you were a Filipino, you would read it as Sing-ha. "Sing-a" means something like to expel mucus from the nose.
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Old 07-25-2005, 11:03 AM
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Oh Belgian beers are dangerous: smooth, sweet and extremely alcoholic. Some of my best hangovers have been on Chimay.
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Old 07-25-2005, 11:28 AM
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I've recently become fond of a Quebec beer called 'La fin du monde', the End of the World. A 9% beer with live yeast in it. Amazing stuff, and it'll knock you right off your ass if you drink it wrong. Learnt that the hard way over this weekend.
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Old 07-25-2005, 12:26 PM
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Beer B!tch! that's a good one
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Old 07-25-2005, 01:25 PM
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Two of my favorite local microbrews are
Kiltlifter-a nice scots style ale
and See No Evil -a strong English style ale
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Old 07-26-2005, 01:41 AM
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Amusing names? The only one I've found, haven't tried it yet is Black Death Vodka.

I don't drink beer, ale or anything but liqour. As such, it's normally standard liqour I buy regularly. No fun with names there, but I tend to avoid reading anything anyways once I start doing shots.
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Old 08-01-2005, 06:30 AM
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Last night while raiding my friend's booze cabinet, I discovered an amusing whiskey called Knob Creek
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