Many of you are aware of the trouble we’ve had coming up with a suitable name for our barleywine, which will be available come Christmastime. When storing the barleywine, I wrote “Laissez-Faire” on the boxes to signify that people needs to keeps their grubby paws off of our masterpiece. Laissez-Faire represents, of course, the economic [...]

Wow, I was really whiny yesterday. Kind of like the Dashboard Confessional of beer brewing. For this I apologize.
Here’s a pic from Monday that Walter sent me:

Yes, that is a sink full of foam. We put Walter on Exploding Beer Duty, and he willingly emptied out the rest of our crappy California Common at risk [...]

Bottling our barleywine on Monday has got me thinking about names again… And I can’t get away from the hobo motif. Do any of these strike a chord (or trigger a better name?):
Bindlestiff Barleywine
Glad Rags Barleywine
Jungle Buzzard Barleywine
Steam Train Steve Barleywine
I encourage you to go here or here for inspiration.
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We are finally ready to introduce a new label to the world. Presenting… The Southern Monk. Or, another possible option, Mulletproof Monk. Granted, the monk is actually the opposite of mulletproof, but I thought it funny nonetheless. The quote for the Southern Monk label comes from Will Rogers:
“The South is dry and will vote dry. [...]

After two iterations of a monk with a mullet, I’m finally ready to reveal the latest Southern Monk madness. For those not following the saga, we’re looking for a mulleted monk to grace the label for our newest peach Belgian beer. So. Does this look any more like a monk with a mullet? If not, [...]

Thanks for all of the feedback! I’ve done some tweaking based on your comments. For one, I tried to make him NOT about to give birth to an alien hillbilly baby. So is this one better?
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We’re busy designing a label for our peach Belgian, the Southern Monk. Turns out it’s hard to make a silhouette of a monk with a mullet. Can you guys tell what this is? And would you be able to tell if the only other thing you had to go on was the name Southern Monk?
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