# H.P. Lovecraft Beer!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476 "2006-07-21T14:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/1 "2006-07-21T14:19:19Z")
I clicked on the Boston Phoenix Site, and one page has not juast one but _two_ ads for “Demon’s Hop Yard. New England’s NEW Sopecialty Beer!”. Here’s the page, although I suspect the ads will change and disappear with time: [http://www.thephoenix.com/article\_ektid18041.aspx](http://www.thephoenix.com/article_ektid18041.aspx) (For referernce, the ads direct you to [originalbeers.com](http://originalbeers.com) ) It’s sneaky. Surely the makers must know that “The Devil’s Hopyard” is a setting in Lovecraft’s story “The Dunwich Horror.” It even shows up, under that name, in the 1970 bad Lovecraft adaptation of the story ([The Dunwich Horror (1970) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065669/) ) I wonder how many customers or potential customers know about this? (In the flick, the Devil’s Hopyard is depicted as an extremely unlikely stone construction with torches and steps and statues next to a Cormanesque seashore. Supposedly a structure “of unknown origin”. Anything like thyat on the NE coastline would be a major tourist attraction, filled with day-glo pennants and bumper stickers and suchlike, and a pretty rough place for a human scarifice. The reality (and, S.Y. Joshi to the contrary notwithstanding, I think this the likely oriin) in Mystery Hill/Pattee’s Caves/America’s Stonehenge at North Salem, N.H. is a lot less impressive. But not a bad place for a beer. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/2 "2006-07-21T20:54:48Z")
Meh. Where’s the beer crafted unter the antediluvian R’lyeh beer laws of 42,000 BC? Is North Salem near Innsmouth? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/3 "2006-07-21T21:02:32Z")
Do they serve this at the Shub-Niggurathskeller? ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/4 "2006-07-21T22:00:39Z")
> [@pinkfreud](#): > > Do they serve this at the Shub-Niggurathskeller? AWESOME. 100 points for that one! ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/5 "2006-07-21T22:44:58Z")
H.P. Lovecraft beer - the beer for lovers. One bottle, and you’re ready to be eaten. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/6 "2006-07-21T23:08:32Z")
I had hoped someone had actually brewed “Shuggoth’s Old Peculiar” (From the Gaiman short story by the same name. Basically Peter Cook and Dudley Moore and blue-collar Cthulhu cultists. Well worth checking out if a Lovecraft fan) ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/7 "2006-07-22T16:13:43Z")
Well, it’s not Shuggoth’s Old Peculiar, but there is this: [Beer Bottle](http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/tapirland/deadlines/images/eastercon15.jpg) From a harbourside tavern in Athens… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/8 "2006-07-22T16:59:35Z")
Everybody loves craft beer. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/9 "2006-07-22T18:00:14Z")
So Cthulhu and Glaaki walk into a bar… ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/10 "2006-07-22T20:06:18Z")
[QUOTE=Kythereia] So Cthulhu and Glaaki walk into a bar… [/QUOTE] Shamble. Not walk, _shamble_! Have you no respect for tradition? 😉 I can just see the ad campaign now: “Three bottles and you won’t just _see_ the Crawling Chaos; you’ll **be** the Crawling Chaos!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/11 "2006-07-22T22:26:39Z")
“Enjoy a Great Old One tonight. You may never get to do it again.” ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/h-p-lovecraft-beer/365476/12 "2006-07-22T23:13:45Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] (In the flick, the Devil’s Hopyard is depicted as an extremely unlikely stone construction with torches and steps and statues next to a Cormanesque seashore. Supposedly a structure “of unknown origin”. Anything like thyat on the NE coastline would be a major tourist attraction, filled with day-glo pennants and bumper stickers and suchlike, and a pretty rough place for a human scarifice. The reality (and, S.Y. Joshi to the contrary notwithstanding, I think this the likely oriin) in Mystery Hill/Pattee’s Caves/America’s Stonehenge at North Salem, N.H. is a lot less impressive. But not a bad place for a beer. [/QUOTE] Ya know, [Devil’s Hopyard](http://dep.state.ct.us/stateparks/parks/devilshopyard.htm) is actually a pretty spiffy park in real life?