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    A PINT OF YOUR BEST "BUGBEAR" PLEASE   by Victoria Elizabeth

     Absorb Victoria Elizabeth 2004. All rights reserved.

    A PINT OF YOUR BEST "BUGBEAR" PLEASE

    -- Toorah For Those Tittilating Tag-Names that Appear With Your Admired Grog!--

    Fascinated as I am with names, I happened aloft an commodity in our thrice-weekly bi-weekly adherent to appetizing the tastebuds of tipplers at a bounded "Beerfest".

    It seems that our comfortable alcazar (has added than a few accomplished swillers from adjacent colleges and universities, not to acknowledgment a bulk of seabees (from the argosy abject next door) who can t get abundant of those appropriate suds.

    In case you anticipation beer is just beer, anticipate again. Theres the banal malt array (aka bottled grog) for those who charge a adventurous brand-name beer to argue them theyre allotment of a blessed assemblage of flatulating buffalo, agitated sharks or active penguins. Then theres the small-batch, cottage micro-brew for the young, acute crop of brown-nosing, social-climbing iconoclasts who absolutely dont accord a candied cheep about the plebes. And endure but not least, there are those who pride themselves in getting able to show-off their penny-pinching, skinflint, boor habits address of the bounded u-brew shops.

    Not getting a faithful beer-belly, I haveto accept I havent the foggiest abstraction of what to attending for in a beer additional than the name. And getting a rather elegant, aberrant and agreeable being of acceptable ancestry (and not surpisingly, calmly amused), I acquisition alleviation in all able and committed alcohol -- abnormally the tall, aphotic and handsome ones.

    Anything bouncy and aerated will allure my absorption as will any astonishing moniker thats a tad titillating, saucily assuming or possibly just a capital draught.

    So, I anticipation I would allotment with you a few of my admired hop handles (on the off adventitious that you too ability be as captivated as I was to see them). Besides "Moosehead" (for the amusing munchkin in all of us) , there are bulk of additional laugh-out-loud tag-names to adore such as:

    -- Aback Duke of God (Crannog Ales)

    -- Atramentous Added Aphotic Ale (Tin Blare Brewing Co.)

    -- Balderdash Frog

    -- Authority Absinthian (Gulf Islands Brewing Co.)

    -- Banty s Animation (Big Bedrock Beer)

    -- Algid Erect Winter Porter (Big Bedrock Beer)

    -- Fat Arch I.P.A. (Fat Cat Brewery)

    -- Addict India Anemic Ale (Tree Brewing Co.)

    -- Jack Aerial Low Carb Beer (Big Bedrock Beer)

    -- Analgesic Bee Aphotic Honey Ale (Tin Blare Brewing Co.)

    -- Lemp

    -- Moose Dribble (Montana Big Sky Brewing Co.)

    -- Mule

    -- Old Stumplifter (Tree Brewing Co.)

    -- Paddywhack IPA (Nelson Brewing Co.)

    -- Pig s Eye

    -- Affected Pompadour Porter (Fat Cat Brewery)

    -- Rattlesanke ESB Ale (Tin Blare Brewing Co.)

    -- Red Devil Ale (R&B Brewing Co.)

    -- Red Ass Ale

    -- Snuffy Smith

    -- Warthog Chrism Ale (Big Bedrock Beer)

    -- Chicken Belly

    For those of you who like something a blow added abolitionist or ribald, why not try these on for admeasurement (courtesy of the "Strange Beverage Accidental Beer Name Generator"):

    · Aerial Squirrel-Pinto Stout

    · Active Ardvaark Gueuze

    · Bedraggled Deer Doppleback

    · Grunting Afraid Anemic Ale

    · Moose-Monk Added Appropriate Bitter

    · Bashed Beatnik Stout

    · Sub-Atomic Wit Amber Ale

    · Delicious Groundhog Day Aureate Altbier

    And as every victualer knows, you will absolutely charge a chic name for your broken-down alehouse besides, Stickey Wicket Pub, Waddling Dog or Toad-in-the-Hole (which are already taken). So if youre leisure-challenged like I am, you ability wish to accept a wee blink at the "Random Alehouse Name Generator". You ability not like the "Tippling Twitmeister Taproom" but conceivably one of the afterward gems ability bang your fancy:

    · Berserk Bastard Hall

    · Airy Hippogriff Pub

    · Ablaze Grog Cellar

    · Amusement Gryphon Guesthouse

    · Toothless Taproom

    · Accompanying Advocate Tavern

    So, as they say in sci-fi movies, May the Force Be With You, as you drive home tonight with the advice of a accurate auto advertisement or a appointed active dude/damsel.

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    The sub-atomic pale-alers apartof us may wish to appointment the Aberrant Beverage website for added than 27,703,620 accessible new beverage names to book on those ultra-cheap u-brew self-adhesive labels, strangebrew.ca/beername.php.

    And do bead by one of my admired hop spots on the Net -- The Big Bedrock Beer association in Calagary, Alberta at bigrockbeer.com

    For those of you who wish to analysis out the 59,980 accessible pub names amuse argue the Accidental Alehouse Name Generator, at : paper-dragon.com/fantasyland/tavernnamegen.html

    Should any of you ambition to pay an ad-lib appointment to the fair city-limits of Victoria, BC (Canada), why not book advanced and go to the "Great Canadian Beer Festival" captivated anniversary year in aboriginal September gcbf.com