UPDATE: You have until midnight tonight (Aug. 15) to put your beer names in the hat. Go get ‘em, beer lovers.
Here’s your chance to claim the glory of naming an Asheville brew. 
For years, Asheville Brewing Company’s excellent brown ale has been called simply Scottish Ale. But company president Mike Rangel says he prefers kooky brew names, plus the term Scottish describes the style (after all, this is the brewery that’s given us the brew handles Shiva, Ninja and Rocket Girl). About a year ago, Rangel and crew renamed the Scottish as Boogie Down Brown. But that moniker just doesn’t roll off the tongue.
Here’s where you come in. Send us your name suggestions for this mildly sweet, mellowly hopped sessions beer, and you could win two tickets to the Brewgrass Beer Festival (September 18), $100 worth of gift cards to Asheville Brewing Company, and some other beer-related swag (perhaps even a Brewgasm T-shirt).
To submit a brew name (or several), simply add your creative sparkly ideas in the comments section below with a proper email address (I will not share your email address with anyone). You also can visit Asheville Brewing’s facebook page and add your ideas to the “Beer Naming Contest” thread there.
A couple caveats: the name can’t already be taken by another beer (the ABC folks will have to check that the winning name is available). And while we encourage sexy, punny, edgy monikers, the name can’t be vulgar, sexist, racist or otherwise inappropriate.
The deadline for submissions is Sunday, August 15, at midnight. We’ll announce the winner on Wednesday, August 25.
Now go put on your most creative beer hat and send us those handles! Yay beer!
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Hogshead Ale
Hogshead Brown
Warlock Ale
Warlock Brown
Brown Raven
Malty Falcon
Northern Isles Ale
North Island Ale
Aberdeen Ale
Brown Norse
Hebrides Ale
Goose Brown
Goose Brown Ale
Brown Goose Ale
Jura Jumper
Barra Brown
Minch Ale
Beam me up Scottie Brew
Asheville/Tourism:
Tourist Trap / Tourist Trap Ale
Leaf Looker
Dreadlock Dan
Mountain Man
Cliff Climber
Cloud Climber
Hitch Hiker
Movies/SciFi:
Blade Runner Brown
Blade Runner Blues (from one of the soundtrack titles)
Love You Long Ale
Flying Saucer
Robot Red
Ripley’s Red
Spock Ale
Live Long Ale
Buccaneer Brown
Then there can be a showdown btwn the Ninjas & Pirates!
Liquid Karma
Liquid Karma
Kilt Kicker
or
Buzzoonga
Tilted Kilt
Beneath the Kilt
Ol’ Nessie
Curse of the kilt
Scotland Yard
Wanker
Scottish Water
Plaid Water
Brown Plaid
Bagpipe Brown
Donovan
Rod Stewart Red
Fleetwood Mac
Belle and Sebastian Brown
David Byrne Brown
Franz Ferdinand
Garbage
Jesus and Mary Chain
Mogwai
Wet, Wet, Wet
Angus Young
Bansheee Brown
Seonaidh Ale
Haggis McHaggis
5000 Year Ale
80 Bob Ale
6 Shilling Ale
Beam Me Up Scottish Ale
Royal Standard Ale
Scots Guardian Ale
Union of the Crowns Brown
Maggie Lauder Ale
Burns Night Ale
Freemasons Ale
Auchentogle Ale
Rugby Sevens Ale
St. Andrews Ale
Homecoming Ale
Wappenschaws Ale
Caddyshack Brown Ale
Dorothy Campbell Ale
King’s Knot Brown Ale
Nessie Brown Ale
Parliament Brown Ale
Scalloway Scallywag Ale
Papa Stour Ale
1707 Brown Ale
Brewin McGregor
The Queen Mary
The Tartan
Brown Bess
Groundskeeper Willie
Mellow Fellow
Doc Hopper
Cellar Door
James Brown
Charlie Brown
Encyclapedia Brown
Brown Bomber
Beer me
beer me brown
Brother Wolf – Support our local no-kill animal shelter and have a percent of each beer sale donated to their organization. Have the donation information printed on the bottle along with their logo. No other beer company has done this yet, so it may be popular especially with beer gifts. Brother Wolf has over 3000 email contacts and I am sure that they would be willing to let them know about the special beer! People might drink more of the beer if they know that it’s going to a good cause. Local Beer supporting a local organization!!!
Muddauber Brown
Stump Grinder Ale
Bulldog Brown Ale
Buster Brown Ale
Brownie Mcghee’s
Brown’s Magic Ale
Brown’s Magical Mystery Tour
Dragon’s Breath
Bell’s telegraph ale
Fleming’s Cure All Ale
Nasmyth’s Hammer
Reid’s Enlightenment Ale
Brownian’s Random Motion Potion
Stupid Girl Ale
Rusty Bucket Ale
Laughing Cherub Ale
Caber Ale
Flying Buttress Ale
Skink Ale
Brown Nose Ale
Fish-tail Ale
Broken Bone Ale
Hopped Scotch
Scotch Hops
Hop Scotch
Hopped Scotch Brown Ale
Scotch Hops Brown Ale
Hop Scotch Brown Ale
Great Scott Ale
Great Scott! Ale
Great Scott! Brown Ale
Scott Brown (The Beer, not the Senator)
Scott Brown (The Ale, not the Senator)
Scott Brown (The Ale, not the A-hole)
Brown Bear Ale
Rob Roy
Second Sight
Brown Galore
Beardie Brown
Heather Brown
Thunderbrown
Brown Angus
Hellabaloo Brown
Samhein Tryst
Scots Tryst
Heather Step Brown
Hellabahoulie
Bauldest Brown
Loch Ness Ale
Loch Ness Brown
Brown Angus
Bauld Bash
Hullabaloo
Backpacker Brown
Moorish Ale (like moors, a common Scottish landscape, not Moors the race/people)
Heather & Gorse Ale (two common moor flowers)
Windy Moors Ale
Wuthering Ale (“wuthering” is the moan the wind makes as it blows over the moors)
Wuthering Hops
My vote (and kudos) go to “Tipsy Tartan Ale.” Genius.
I thought it would be cool to incorporate the word Bruin into the new name. Bruin is not only Dutch for brown but also used as the name for a bear in folklore and fables.
how about:
Asheville Bruin
AP& Bruin
Blue Ridge Bruin
Parkway Bruin
Wee Bruin
I also randomly came up with:
Scotch Broth Ale
Loch Ness Maltster
Festivus Ale
Copperhead Brown
88.7 / (WNCW is so great in Ashville)
Scared Sheep
By The Bollocks
(Brewery dog’s name)’s Bollocks
Fantestical (TTB may have issues, but it’s catchy)
Freebird
Ben Nevis Brown Ale
Grampian Mountain Ale
Alba Ale
Glasgow Glow
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