Ballast Point has a nice aquarium of sea life brews featuring Manta Rays, Sculpin, Big Eye (tuna), Wahoo, Big Mouth Bass, Dorado, Grunion and Marlin.
Maybe. It reminds me of that ancient SNL skit parodying the Smuckers ads, “with a name like Smuckers, it has to be good.”
The parody featured Chevy Chase zestfully making assorted proclamations like, “With a name like painful rectal itch, it has to be good!”
I’ll nominate Lionshead Pilsner. When I was in college circa 2004 they still had returnable bottles, which would bring the case price down to around $13.
Best part of the beer were the rebus puzzles printed on the underside of the cap. Seems like it’s still around.
“Our product has a name so disgusting you can’t even say it on TV. Ask for it by name!”
Leo is pisswater, but it’s cheap pisswater, so it’s popular.
A lot of local drinkers like Chang, which is Thai for “elephant.” I find it pretty awful myself. It started out high octane, something like 8% alcohol, and a bar I used to frequent in the Nana Plaza red-light center called, really, The Cathouse had a four-hour happy hour from 4-8pm that featured all-you-can-drink Chang for something like 10 bucks American, maybe a little less. And let me tell you, come 8pm, it was NOT a pretty sight. They quietly reduced the alcohol content after awhile.
My favorite remains Singh beer, which is Thai for “lion.” Boon Rawd Brewery, its maker, has for years had to battle unfounded rumors that it contains formaldehyde. The best I can figure, some drinkers down 30 bottles, then wake up with a raging hangover, so decide the rumors must be true.
Side note: The beer is spelled Singha, but the “A” at the end is silent, so I keep forgetting it’s there.
Also, looking at the link in squeegee’s post, I see Tiger beer is incorrectly named a Thai beer. It’s out of Singapore (although under license by Heineken). (And I believe that’s a leopard on the Leo label.)
I have always maintained that we could be spared a lot of lousy TV commercials if the FTC or whoever had one additional very simple rule: Whatever the product is, they have to show somebody using it as intended.
If it’s a car they need to drive it, not just walk around the showroom floor while the camera ogles the babe ogling the car. If it’s food they need to eat it, not just show folks laughing and smiling around a table with forks poised near faces.
And if it’s hemorrhoid cream …
See how well my idea would work!
Crudely drawn?!? That’s art by Ralph Steadman, perhaps best known for his collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson.
It was Steadman who (at Thompson’s instigation) was going to paint “Fuck the Pope” on the side of a yacht until his shaking of the can of spray paint attracted unwanted attention.