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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How’s about
Fat Bastard or Phat Bastard
“Get in my belly!”
Downtown Brown
Downtown Ash Brown
Low Down Brown
“Dog Slobber Ale”
with a small picture of a scottish terrier
“Beam Me Up, Scotty”
For the naming contest:
Clootie Ale (Scotish name for the devil)
Or
Drum Castle Ale (an actual castle in Scotland) and reflects the “drum circle” in Asheville
Brythons Brown Ale
Brown Crest Ale
Tipsy Tartan Ale
Tipsy Tartan Brown Ale
Tartan Brown Ale
Brown Kilt Ale
Shire Ale
Brown In The Valley Ale
Celtic Shire Ale
Awrite Ale (Awrite is Hi in Scottish)
Asheville Awrite Ale
Blethering Brown Ale (Blethering is Chatting or Socializing)
Blethering Fool Ale
Blethering Scotti Ale
Blethering Lassie Ale
Blethering Laddie Ale
Blethering Jimmy Ale (Jimmy is Generic term for Man)
Blethering Galoot Ale (Galoot means Clumsy Personality)
Scotch Hops
Tomb Essence (inspired by Drew’s “Throbbing Kilt”)
It’s about time that someone celebrate the fact that Asheville has been recognized as the best beer city in the country. . . so how about
Beer City Brown
or to capture another Asheville distinction. . .
Freakcity Brown
More. .
Brown and Out Ale
Brownin’ Around Ale
Beer Town Brown
Wound Down Brown
Sweet Baby Brown
Sweet Town Brown
Yogi Brown
Down Dog Brown
Brown Bliss
Blissfully Brown
Nirvana
Bliss
Sweet Nirvana
Sweet Nirvana Brown
Easy Rider(Ryder)
how about these:
Kilt Licker Ale
Bagpipe Brown
Top O’ The Mornin’ Ale
Pot of Gold Ale
4 Leaf Brown Clover
a Wee Bit O’ Brown Ale
My brain just can’t stop thinkin’ so more suggestions. . .
Freak Town Brown
Down Doggie Brown
Freakin’ Brown
Goodun’ Brown
Brown Goodness
Earth and Turf
Earth Lovin’ Brown
Mother Earth Brown
Here’s a few:
Blarney Brown
O’Connery Brown
O’Shea’s Ale
Saint Andrew Ale
Saint’s Brew/Saint’s Brown
Forgot one:
Brewgasm Brown (why not?
)
Big kiss for Matt!
SodaHops
Hops along Cassidy
Keep’m Coming
Kilt Raiser
Drain the Lizard
French Broad Brown
Kilt-Monster
Hopscotch
Sunset Kilt
Loch Ness Ale
Brigadoon Brown
Rob Roy Ale
New Found Brown
Fine Grit
Balloon Brown
Troll
Toenail Ale
Haggis Ale
Calm Down Brown
Come Around Brown
Frogman Ale
Scooter Ale
Scotch Tap Ale
Lurch
Loose Screw
Hair-ball
Tremor
Vision
Hail-storm
Imago
Flux
Walrus
Dog Slobber Ale
Mountain Air Ale
Banjo Picker
Beer City Brown
Gettin Down Brown
The Dude
Sundown Brown
Parkway Paradise
Blazzin Brown
How about
Foxy Brown
Triple Crown Brown
Boomtown Brown
Brownie
Shazam
Brown Chicken Brown Cow (Bow chica bowow)
Bucktooth Brown
Mathan Leann–Scottish Gaelic for Brown or Brown Bear Ale depending on the contexr.
Kiltless Ale
Sweet Appy Brown
or
ABC’s BRB (Asheville Brewing Co’s Blue Ridge Brown)
mountain illusion ale
Bloodhound brown ale
Bronze goddess
Braveheart bronze
Tartan gold
Beowulf bold
Chieftain gold
Excalibur
Celtic Dragon
Sienna King Ale
Bazooka Brown
The new brew…”FULL ‘KILT ‘er ”
Tks
Tim
nun’s habit
how about “Braveheart Brown” as it is a scottish, brown ale…
or “Bravehearted Brown”
Joe Bang Brown
” Feisty Redhead”
“Sultry Redhead”
My entries–probably because I’m a redhead
Braw Spirit
Town Mountain Brown
Brown Mountain Road
Brownie
Brown Nose
Brewgrass Brown
Uptown Browntown
The pie is round, the brew is brown (yes long but couldn’t resist)
Auld Scots Ale
Bonnie Brown Ale
Wee Loch Ale
Loch Ale
Loch Ness, Monster Ale
The Droothy – scottish for Thirsty or desperate for drink.
Im pretty droothy for a beer right now myself!
Scotty Rockets Thunder Brown
St. Brogan’s Brown Ale
…or
Scotty Rockets Downtown Thunder Brown.
Naming contest:
Wulver
Banshee
Big Brown
Wolf
Brunette (or Brewnette)
Tawny Lass
Skid Mark Ale
Brewnette
puppy dog brown
Foxy
Superfly brown
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